White Knight

White knight may refer to:Knight (chess), a chess piece.A generic term for a Knight-errant, Paladin, or "knight in shining armor."White knight (business), a corporation, private company, or person that intends to help a firm.White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most violent and militant branches of the Ku Klux Klan.The White Knight (book), a 1952 biography of Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll himself; The White Knight is a character in Through the Looking Glass which resembles the chess-piece. The character is based on himself; it is a bumbling but kindly old man with a penchant for useless inventions.White Knight (computer game), an early 1980s chess simulation game for the BBC Microcomputer Model B.White Knight Story, a video game under development by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3White Knight (chocolate), an Australian mint flavoured chocolate candy bar.Scaled Composites White Knight, the aircraft used to carry and launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, the privately funded experimental spacecraft that won the Ansari X PrizeScaled Composites White Knight Two, the technological successorWhite Knight, one of the founders of L0pht and a member of the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow.The White Knight, an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland (as an example, Edmund Fitzgibbon, a holder of the title during the Tudor period)."The White Knight", a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard based on the citizens band radio fad of the 1970sThe White Knight, Suzaku Kururugi, from the popular anime series Code Geass
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Noun
1. a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover
(hypernym) company
(hyponym) white squire

A friendly potential acquirer sought out by a target firm that is threatened by a less welcome suitor.