Acquiring person shall mean a person who makes or proposes to make a control-share acquisition. If two or more persons act as a partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, syndicate, or other group pursuant to any agreement, arrangement, relationship, or understanding, whether or not in writing, for the purpose of acquiring, owning, or voting shares of an issuing public corporation, all members of the partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, syndicate, or other group shall constitute a person for purposes of this section.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 21-2434

  • Acquiring person: shall mean a person who makes or proposes to make a control-share acquisition. See Nebraska Statutes 21-2434
  • Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Control-share acquisition: shall mean an acquisition, directly or indirectly, by an acquiring person of ownership of voting stock of an issuing public corporation that, except for the Shareholders Protection Act, would, when added to all other shares of the issuing public corporation owned by the acquiring person, entitle the acquiring person, immediately after the acquisition, to exercise or direct the exercise of a new range of voting power within any of the following ranges of voting power: (1) At least twenty percent but less than thirty-three and one-third percent. See Nebraska Statutes 21-2439
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, unincorporated association, or other entity. See Nebraska Statutes 21-2444