§417E-5 Limitations on offerors. (a) No offeror may make a take-over offer which is not made to stockholders in this State on substantially the same terms as the offer is made to stockholders outside this State.

(b) An offeror shall provide that any equity securities of a target company deposited or tendered pursuant to a take-over offer may be withdrawn by or on behalf of any offeree at any time within seven days from the date the offer has become effective under this chapter and after sixty days from the date the offer has become effective under this chapter, except as the commissioner may otherwise prescribe by rule or order for the protection of investors.

(c) If an offeror makes a take-over offer for less than all the outstanding equity securities of any class, and if the number of securities deposited or tendered pursuant thereto within ten days after the offer has become effective under this chapter and copies of the offer, or notice of any increase in the consideration offered, are first published or sent or given to security holders is greater than the number the offeror has offered to accept and pay for, the securities shall be accepted pro rata, disregarding fractions, according to the number of securities deposited or tendered by each offeree.

(d) If an offeror varies the terms of a take-over offer before its expiration date by increasing the consideration offered to the security holders, the offeror shall pay the increased consideration for all equity securities accepted, whether such securities have been accepted by the offeror before or after the variation in the terms of the offer.

(e) No offeror shall make a take-over offer or acquire any equity securities in this State pursuant to the take-over offer, at any time when any proceeding by the commissioner is pending against the offeror alleging a violation of any provision of this chapter or chapter 485A.

(f) No offeror shall acquire, remove, or exercise control, directly or indirectly, over any target company assets located in this State pursuant to a take-over offer at any time when any proceeding by the commissioner is pending against the offeror alleging a violation of any provision of this chapter.

(g) No offeror shall acquire from any resident of this State in any manner any equity securities of any class of a target company at any time within two years following the last purchase of securities pursuant to a take-over offer with respect to that class, including, but not limited to, acquisitions made by purchase, exchange, merger, consolidation, partial or complete liquidation, redemption, reverse stock split, recapitalization, reorganization, or any other similar transaction, unless the holders of the equity securities are afforded, at the time of the acquisition, a reasonable opportunity to dispose of the securities to the offeror upon substantially equivalent terms as those provided in the earlier take-over offer. [L 1985, c 32, pt of §2; am L 2006, c 229, §10]