SIE: Tender Offers

Tender Offers

A tender offer is an open offer to purchase a large percentage of a company’s outstanding shares from the company’s current shareholders. It may come from the issuer or a third party. An issuer may wish to reduce its number of outstanding shares, thereby increasing its earnings per share without actually increasing its earnings, or it may wish to go private. An issuer may also wish to signal to the market that the current market