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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Hortiz also signed running back Jaret Patterson and defensive back Kendall Williamson to one-year extensions and tendered running back Kimani Vidal an exclusive rights tender offer, keeping him in the fold, too.
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Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
Paramount launched a hostile tender offer, threatened a proxy fight and things got noisy.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
Ellison launched a hostile tender offer and, separately, was welcomed back to the negotiating table with WBD under a seven-day waiver from Netflix.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
Holders of more than 75% of the 2031 notes and about 90% of the 2051 securities affected by the tender offer have signed the pact, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
—Reshmi Basu, Bloomberg, 23 Feb. 2026
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Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
Paramount launched a hostile tender offer, threatened a proxy fight and things got noisy.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
Ellison launched a hostile tender offer and, separately, was welcomed back to the negotiating table with WBD under a seven-day waiver from Netflix.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
Holders of more than 75% of the 2031 notes and about 90% of the 2051 securities affected by the tender offer have signed the pact, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
—Reshmi Basu, Bloomberg, 23 Feb. 2026
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“Tender offer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tender%20offer. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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