1.   When management acquire shares in Newco, it is relevant for tax purposes whether they acquire these qua directors and employees, or in their capacity as independent entrepreneurs.

2.   The trust can then acquire shares in Newco and hold these for the benefit of employees of Newco and Target.

3.   Persons who, pursuant to an agreement or understanding, actively co-operate to obtain or consolidate control of a company by acquiring its shares.

4.   Persons act in concert if, pursuant to an agreement or understanding, they actively co-operate to obtain or consolidate control of a company by acquiring its shares.

5.   The market dealer acquiring the shares and selling them to the company is subject to a special tax regime.

6.   As individual Germans buy more shares than originally envisioned, institutional buyers may be forced to acquire shares in the after-market.

7.   Bell Atlantic, for example, is using its stock to acquire Nynex shares in their merger.

8.   Acquiring those shares would give Nazdratenko effective control of the company.

9.   Almost immediately, he began acquiring shares in the French film company Pathe, alarming its chairman, Jerome Seydoux.

10.   British Petroleum is already weighing a deal to acquire shares in Sidanko as a way of acquiring a stake in Rosneft.