Campeau had bested Macy's own attempted acquisition of Federated Department Stores and sold these California divisions to Macy's as part of their settlement.

However, he was unable to sign in the United Kingdom as his attempted acquisition of a Polish passport through ancestry had not yet been completed.

But Yahoo's penny-pinching ways caused it to fumble the attempted acquisition of its arch rival, Excite, according to executives involved in the negotiations.

In 2010, he advised an unnamed Middle Eastern client on the attempted acquisition of Liverpool F.C..

The company was a result of an attempted acquisition of Scania by Volvo that was blocked by the European Commission for competition reasons.

His 1985 defense of Pennzoil convinced a Houston jury that Texaco interfered in his client's attempted acquisition of Getty Oil.

Since the Frankish army's attempted acquisition of Bosra was thwarted, the campaign ended in a strategic victory for Damascus.

That ultimately left the company at risk of a financial implosion when the cycle finally ended, after regulatory objections scuttled WorldCom's attempted acquisition of Sprint in 2000.

There is not much precedent for two large financial players, with their separate agendas, being compatible in such an attempted acquisition.

With the attempted acquisition of former New Northwest broadcast properties in the market, Townsquare would be over the FCC ownership limit in the Tri-Cities.