Legal English Dictionary
squeeze out
nounwhere a group of shareholders in a company are able to force the remaining minority of shareholders to sell them their shares (eg in Germany, a group of shareholders owning at least 95% of a company's shares has the right to squeeze out the remaining shareholders)Kapital was motivated to acquire over 90% in order to effect a squeeze-out of the minority
shareholders.
Synonyms and Other Spellings
- squeeze-out
