Terms Used In South Carolina Code 35-2-202

  • business combination: when used in reference to any resident domestic corporation and any interested shareholder of the resident domestic corporation, means any of the following:

    (1) Any merger of the resident domestic corporation or any subsidiary of the resident domestic corporation with:

    (A) the interested shareholder; or

    (B) any other corporation (whether or not itself an interested shareholder of the resident domestic corporation) that is, or after the merger or consolidation would be, an affiliate or associate of the interested shareholder. See South Carolina Code 35-2-205
As used in this article, "announcement date", when used in reference to any business combination, means the date of the first public announcement of the definitive proposal for the business combination, without regard to subsequent amendments.