How to protect a business from raider capture

Recently, raider seizures are occurring more and more often not only in the segment of large business, but also affect small and medium-sized enterprises with a small but stable profit. Thus, a raider takeover can threaten not only large joint-stock companies, but also those whose turnovers are much more modest.

Raider takeover is a power take-off of an enterprise aimed at acquiring its assets from owners. Unfortunately, the raider market in Russia is quite large and is constantly expanding. Protection from economic pressure should be expected from law enforcement agencies and the anti-raider legal corps. However, neither one nor the other can give guarantees that the business will be able to maintain.

However, not every business product is of interest to raiders. There are certain prerequisites that allow us to say that the company is conducting a risky management policy, which can predict the emergence of raider interest in the future. To eliminate the danger of economic oppression, some business principles should be reviewed.

Work in white

Attractive assets, stable profits and strong market positions are not the only signs of an enterprise that may be at risk of a raider takeover. Illegal economic fraud is often carried out at enterprises whose management has already violated the law. In such cases, the seizure of enterprises becomes the result of blackmail.

Obviously, conducting white bookkeeping, not making dubious transactions and not withdrawing funds secretly from the founders will reduce the risk of a raider seizure. However, this does not give a full guarantee.

Raiding on Carelessness

Often raider seizures occur as a result of insufficient management attention to the storage of documentation. If fraudsters gain access to accounting documents or there is an opportunity to steal documents in an elementary way, then problems with the business cannot be avoided.

According to such schemes, raider seizures are implemented at enterprises of various forms of ownership. That is why it is recommended to keep the statutory, accounting documents, seals and facsimiles strictly in a safe, the keys to which are only available to officials: the general director and chief accountant.