Prospectus

Application for shares

Application for shares. Under the Companies Act, 1929, s. 35, the issue of forms of applications for shares in a public company must be accompanied by the prospectus, and the amount payable on such application must not be less than five per cent. of the nominal amount of the shares (s. 39)....

A summary plan or scheme of something proposed affording a prospect of its nature especially an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work...

Programme

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement a scheme a prospectus especially a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued or the subjects embraced in any public exercise performance or entertainment a preliminary sketch...

red herring

red herring [red herring something that distracts attention from the main issue, diversion] : a preliminary prospectus (as for the sale of securities) that is not yet approved by the appropriate body (as the Securities and Exchange Commission) ...

disclosure

disclosure : an act or instance of disclosing: as a : a lender's revelation of information to a consumer under the Truth in Lending Act that enables the consumer to make an intelligent decision about the loan b : the revelation to investors of financial information about a corporation or municipality and about the security it is offering for sale see also prospectus, registration statement NOTE: Disclosure is required for a public offering. c : revelation by a corporate insider (as an officer) for approval of a business transaction that involves self-dealing d : a debtor in bankruptcy's revelation to creditors of a bankruptcy plan ...

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. ...

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