A Takeover is just another term used to describe an acquisition of one business by another. A takeover can either be friendly which is when the management is aware and supporting of the acquisition or hostile which is when the management is opposed to the idea but the buyer continues to pursue it.
For example…
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in a takeover. In this case, this was a friendly takeover and LinkedIn’s CEO at the time Jeff Weiner even wrote a piece in TIME magazine explaining his reasoning behind selling LinkedIn. For LinkedIn, it was to provide a professional network and for Microsoft, it was to provide the professional cloud, he said. The twenty-six billion dollar takeover was described as something that will be able “to recreate the connective tissue for enterprises”, according to a Silicon-valley expert.
