Corporate Event Consideration - Equity Derivatives Provision

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Section 12.1. General Provisions Relating to Extraordinary Events

12.1(a). “Extraordinary Event”

12.1(b). “Merger Event”

12.1(c). “Merger Date”

12.1(d). “Tender Offer”

12.1(e). “Tender Offer Date”

12.1(f). “Share-for-Share”

12.1(g). “Share-for-Other”

12.1(h). “Share-for-Combined”

12.1(i). “New Shares”

12.1(j). “Other Consideration”

12.1(k). “Combined Consideration”

12.1(l). “Announcement Date”

12.1(m). “Implied Volatility”

12.1(n). “Affected Shares”

This composite page looks in a little more detail at the types of consideration that might apply in what we call a corporate event: a “Merger” — where two companies of roughly equal negotiation power team up, or a “Tender Offer” — what British establishment types used to call a “takeover” and most people these days call a “acquisition” — where a strong company consumes a weak one, by force (a “hostile takeover”), or by polite request to stop someone else doing it (a “white knight rescue”).

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Summary

Here we find the mechanical ways of describing the different ways a shareholder can be persuaded to part with its existing Shares and thereby agree to a Merger or accept a Tender Offer.

Our friends in the M&A advisory business — they are better paid and more impressively heeled than we — have no shortage of imaginative ways for investors to stump up the necessary to acquire new companies, or parts of old ones the current owner no longer wants, but basically they boil down to (i) being given New Shares (usually in the acquiror, or a “newco” it has established for the purpose), (ii) being paid cash (or given something else that isn’t New Shares, or (iii) a combination of the two.

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