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any-and-all bid

any-and-all bid

9.3
An offer to buy all shares that current shareholders want to sell
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : oferta de adquisición total
  • The company launched an any-and-all bid to acquire the outstanding shares from existing shareholders.

Examples

  • After receiving the any-and-all bid, many investors decided to sell their shares at the offered price.

  • An any-and-all bid signals the acquirer's readiness to purchase all available equity in the target company.

  • The company made an any-and-all bid for the smaller firm.

  • Have you heard about the any-and-all bid from TechCorp?

  • After receiving the any-and-all bid, many investors decided to sell their shares at the offered price.

  • The company launched an any-and-all bid to acquire all the outstanding shares from existing shareholders.

  • An any-and-all bid shows that the acquirer is willing to purchase any shares that shareholders want to sell.

Synonyms

takeover bid
vsany-and-all bid
  • Jargon
4 4.2

An offer to buy enough shares in a company to gain control

accepts shares from any seller without requiring a minimum number to reach control
tender offer
vsany-and-all bid
  • Specialized
2 7.5

An offer to buy a company's shares at a higher price than the market

focuses on buying shares from all willing holders rather than on paying a premium
buyout bid
vsany-and-all bid
  • Specialized
1 5.9

An offer to buy all the shares a person or company owns in a business

accepts shares from any shareholder rather than targeting one owner for total purchase

Surface Forms

any-and-all bid singular
any-and-all bids plural

Morphology

any-and-all + bid

The meaning is directly compositional: 'any and all' conveys every possible/no exceptions and 'bid' is an offer to buy, so together they denote an offer to purchase every outstanding share sellers wish to sell. This quantifier + noun pattern is a common, predictable English construction (and has clear parallels in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Any-and-all bid comes from a simple market image. Imagine a buyer at a market saying they will take any and all apples people want to sell. So, the phrase means an offer to buy 'every available share' of a company.