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tender offer
noun
: a public offer to buy not less than a specified number of shares of a stock at a fixed price from stockholders usually in an attempt to gain control of the issuing company
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SpaceX was founded in 2002 and is worth nearly $210 billion based on a tender offer launched during the second half of 2024.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Nov. 2024
The veteran general manager concocted a plan to tender offer sheets to the Edmonton Oilers’ Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway simultaneously.
—Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
The pay-TV group, which may pursue a secondary listing in Johannesburg pending its MultiChoice tender offer, would remain a French tax resident.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 July 2024
In 2015, Angelo and Yorkville Advisors were fined $135,000 by the Italian financial regulator the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa for failing to make a public tender offer to buy the shares of certain shareholders involved in a deal.
—Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined above
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“Tender offer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tender%20offer. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
Legal Definition
tender offer
noun
: a public offer to purchase a specified number or range of shares from shareholders usually at a premium and in an attempt to gain control of the issuing company
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