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private offering

private offering : the sale of an issue of securities directly by the issuer to one or a few large investors without any public offering called also private placement compare public offering NOTE: A private offering is exempt from the requirements of filing a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and distributing prospectuses to potential buyers before the sale. ...


public offering

public offering : an offering of corporate securities to the general public or to potential purchasers whose level of knowledge or access to information about the securities is dependent upon the disclosures of the corporation compare private offering NOTE: Public offerings are subject to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 for filing a registration statement before the offering can take place. ...


Offering circular

Offering circular, means a document, similar to a prospectus, that provides information about a private securities offering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1112....


going private transaction

going private transaction : a corporate action (as a recapitalization, share repurchase, or tender offer) taken as part of going private ...


Regulation D

Regulation D : a regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission governing the limited offer and sale (as by a private offering) of unregistered securities ...


Offer of shares to the public

Offer of shares to the public. Shares and debentures of limited companies, when allotted or agreed to be allotted with a view to sale to the public, must when offered to the public comply with the provision of s. 38 of the Companies Act, 1929; and see PROSPECTUS. Further, any offer in writing to any member of the public of any shares for purchase except as provided, i.e. (a) shares dealt in with permission of any recognised stock exchange in Great Britain; (b) shares allotted with a view to sale to the public; and (c) offers to persons doing regular business in the purchase or sale of shares, must comply with s. 356 of the same Act; s. 356 also absolutely prohibits 'share pushing,' i.e., any person going from house to house (not being an office used for business purposes) offering shares for subscription or purchase to the public or any member of the public...


Private company

Private company. A 'private company' is defined by s. 26 of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, as follows:-Company privately formed by members who subscribe the whole of the capital among them-selves.26. --(1), For the purposes of this Act the expression 'private company' means a company which by its articles-(a) restricts the right to transfer its shares; and(b) limits the number of its members to 50, not including persons who are in the employment of the company and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the company, were, while in that employment and have continued after the determination of such employment to be, members of the company; and(c) prohibits any invitation to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the company.(2) Where two or more persons hold one or more shares in a company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as a single member.S. 27, ibid., provides that if a company alters its articles so that the provisio...


offer

offer 1 : a proposal, promise, or other manifestation of willingness to make and fulfill a contract or to bargain under proposed terms with another party that has the power to accept it upon receiving it [denied accepting the ] see also revoke, tender offer 2 : a price named by one proposing to buy (as in a bid, bargain, or settlement) : the amount of an offer to pay money [decided the was too low] offer vb ...


Private

Belonging to or concerning an individual person company or interest peculiar to ones self unconnected with others personal ones own not public not general separate as a mans private opinion private property a private purse private expenses or interests a private secretary...


Private security agency

Private security agency, means a person or body of person other than a government agency; depart-ment or organization engaged in the business of providing private security services including training to private security guards or their supervisor or providing private security guards to any industrial or business undertaking or a company or any other person or property. [The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(g)]...


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