a white knight

someone who gives money to a company in order to prevent it from being bought by another company Hope is fading that a white knight will appear to stop the takeover bid.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ingeburg	ING-e-buwrk (German)	German, Ancient Germanic
Brett	[brɛt]
Obi	-	Western African, Igbo
Fricis	-	Latvian
Hoffman	['hɔ:fmən]
Costel	ko-STEL	Romanian