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Finance: What is the All Holders Rule? 4 Views

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What is the All Holders Rule? The All Holders Rule is a rule made by the Securities Exchange Commission. It’s basically the “all created equal” rule in terms of shareholders. It says that, should any offer be made, it must be made equally to all shareholders of the same class of stock of a company. It comes into play during things like buybacks or the selling of a company.

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Finance a la shmoop, what is the all holders rule? No this is not about
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post-coital rules of engagement.. The holder here is about those holding stock [Two peoples heads pop out from under a duvet and a stop sign appears]
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in a company in this case likely holding stock in a company where a contentious
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takeover bid has come in from the cold cruel world outside with a bidder [Pacman]
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wanting to pay $17 and 23 cents a share for about a $2 premium over where the

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stock was trading yesterday while a rival set of shareholders want more like
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20 bucks a share to sell the iPod hearing aid company to just you know [Billboard for the iPod hearing aid company]
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sell and go away. Well the all holders rule came along as part of the 1934 Act
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if the SEC was establishing granular rules so that the legally [Two people in suits walking down a corridor]
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unsophisticated weren't turned into lunch when the hungry Wall Street wolves [A wolf appears and drags one of them away]
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got a hankering for deals. So what's the rule with all holders, well it's simply
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that all holders of the same exact class of security. i.e. basic common stock have
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to be offered the same deal that is one offer can't be given to the people who [Good offer document is given to Company A]
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wanted to sell at just 17 dollars and 23 cents and then some other punitive deal [Bad deal given to Company B]
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like is offered to the others like you know.. if you don't take this by 4:00 p.m.
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next Thursday we'll teepee your homes and then offer at most 16 bucks a share [Angry looking guy in a suit]
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going down a dime a week until you say uncle, or aunt yeah well that's the all
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holders rule. All holders get the same deal.
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