dawn raid

noun

1. stock exchange an unexpected attempt to acquire a substantial proportion of a company's shares at the start of a day's trading as a preliminary to a takeover bid

Example Sentences

Locals say that a boy of 14 was among four killed after a dawn raid by Israeli forces resulted in violent confrontations.

From BBC

Mr Skvortsov and his wife were arrested in a dramatic special forces dawn raid in November 2022, as helicopters hovered over their home in Nacka near Stockholm.

From BBC

The French competition authority, which disclosed the dawn raid on Wednesday, did not say what practices it was investigating or which company it had targeted, beyond saying it was in the “graphics cards sector,” the report said.

From Reuters

Kering confirmed at the time that Gucci was cooperating with the EU regulators after Reuters previously reported the European Union dawn raid on its site in Milan, which makes such products.

From Reuters

The defendants are those who pleaded not guilty out of 47 arrested in a dawn raid in January 2021 and charged with conspiracy to commit subversion for participating in an unofficial primary election in 2020.

From Reuters