dawn raid

British

noun

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

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The film, called Everyone to Kenmure Street, documents the events of 13 May 2021, when hundreds of residents in Pollokshields prevented the detention and deportation of their two neighbours during a dawn raid.

From BBC

The effort failed, and Yoon was eventually detained in a dawn raid in January, becoming South Korea's first sitting president to be taken into custody.

From Barron's

The latest federal investigation into Wiederhorn began around 2021 and involved a dawn raid on his home that December.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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