[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR229.1000]

[Page 440]
 
              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER II--SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
 PART 229--STANDARD INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILING FORMS UNDER SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 AND ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION ACT OF 1975--REGULATION S-K--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart 229.1000--Mergers and Acquisitions (Regulation M-A)
 
Sec. 229.1000  (Item 1000) Definitions.

    Source: 64 FR 61443, Nov. 10, 1999, unless otherwise noted.


    The following definitions apply to the terms used in Regulation M-A 
(Secs. 229.1000 through 229.1016), unless specified otherwise:
    (a) Associate has the same meaning as in Sec. 240.12b-2 of this 
chapter;
    (b) Instruction C means General Instruction C to Schedule 13E-3 
(Sec. 240.13e-100 of this chapter) and General Instruction C to Schedule 
TO (Sec. 240.14d-100 of this chapter);
    (c) Issuer tender offer has the same meaning as in Sec. 240.13e-
4(a)(2) of this chapter;
    (d) Offeror means any person who makes a tender offer or on whose 
behalf a tender offer is made;
    (e) Rule 13e-3 transaction has the same meaning as in Sec. 240.13e-
3(a)(3) of this chapter;
    (f) Subject company means the company or entity whose securities are 
sought to be acquired in the transaction (e.g., the target), or that is 
otherwise the subject of the transaction;
    (g) Subject securities means the securities or class of securities 
that are sought to be acquired in the transaction or that are otherwise 
the subject of the transaction; and
    (h) Third-party tender offer means a tender offer that is not an 
issuer tender offer.