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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 21', '§ 77', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 77', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21', '§ 21']

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Affiliated Business Combinations - Texas Business Organizations
AFFILIATED BUSINESS COMBINATIONS
§ 21.601. DEFINITIONS.
(1) "Issuing public corporation" means a domestic corporation that has:
(A) 100 or more shareholders of record as shown by the share transfer records of the corporation;
(B) a class or series of the corporation's voting shares registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 77b et seq.), as amended; or
(C) a class or series of the corporation's voting shares qualified for trading on a national securities exchange.
(2) "Person" includes two or more persons acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, or other group under an agreement, arrangement, or understanding, regardless of whether in writing, to acquire, hold, vote, or dispose of a corporation's shares.
(3) "Share acquisition date" means the date a person initially becomes an affiliated shareholder of an issuing public corporation.
(4) "Subsidiary" means a domestic or foreign corporation or other entity of which a majority of the outstanding voting shares are owned, directly or indirectly, by an issuing public corporation.
(5) "Voting share" means a share of capital stock of a corporation that entitles the holder of the share to vote generally in the election of directors.
§ 21.602. AFFILIATED SHAREHOLDER.
(a) For purposes of this subchapter, a person, other than the issuing public corporation or a wholly owned subsidiary of the issuing public corporation, is an affiliated shareholder if the person:
(1) is the beneficial owner of 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting shares of the issuing public corporation; or
(2) during the preceding three-year period, was the beneficial owner of 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting shares of the issuing public corporation.
(b) To determine whether a person is an affiliated shareholder, the number of voting shares of the issuing public corporation considered outstanding includes shares considered beneficially owned by that person under § 21.603, but does not include other unissued voting shares of the issuing public corporation that may be issuable under an agreement, arrangement, or understanding, or on exercise of conversion rights, warrants, or options.
§ 21.603. BENEFICIAL OWNER OF SHARES OR OTHER SECURITIES.
(a) For purposes of this subchapter, a person is a beneficial owner of shares or other securities if the person individually, or through an affiliate or associate, directly or indirectly beneficially owns the shares or other securities or has the right to:
(1) acquire the shares or other securities immediately or after the passage of time according to an oral or written agreement, arrangement, or understanding, or on the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants, or options;
(2) vote the shares or other securities according to an oral or written agreement, arrangement, or understanding; or
(3) acquire, hold or dispose of, or vote the shares or other securities with another person who individually, or through an affiliate or associate, beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, the shares or other securities.
(b) A person, however, is not considered a beneficial owner of shares or other securities for purposes of this subchapter if:
(1) the shares or other securities are:
(A) tendered under a tender or exchange offer made by the person or an affiliate or associate of the person before the tendered shares or securities are accepted for purchase or exchange; or
(B) subject to an agreement, arrangement, or understanding that expressly conditions the acquisition or purchase of shares or securities on the approval of the acquisition or purchase under § 21.606 if the person has no direct or indirect rights of ownership or voting with respect to the shares or other securities until the time the approval is obtained; or
(2) the agreement, arrangement, or understanding to vote the shares:
(A) arises solely from an immediately revocable proxy that authorizes the person named in the proxy to vote at a meeting of the shareholders that has been called when the proxy is delivered or at an adjournment of the meeting; and
(B) would not be reportable on a Schedule 13D under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 77b et seq.), as amended, or a comparable or successor report.
§ 21.604. BUSINESS COMBINATION.
(1) a merger, share exchange, or conversion of an issuing public corporation or a subsidiary with:
(A) an affiliated shareholder;
(B) a foreign or domestic corporation or other entity that is, or after the merger, share exchange, or conversion would be, an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder; or
(C) another domestic or foreign corporation or other entity, if the merger, share exchange, or conversion is caused by an affiliated shareholder, or an affiliate or associate of an affiliated shareholder, and as a result of the merger, share exchange, or conversion this subchapter does not apply to the surviving corporation or other entity;
(2) a sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer, or other disposition, in one transaction or a series of transactions, including an allocation of assets under a merger, to or with the affiliated shareholder, or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder, of assets of the issuing public corporation or a subsidiary that:
(A) has an aggregate market value equal to 10 percent or more of the aggregate market value of all of the assets, determined on a consolidated basis, of the issuing public corporation;
(B) has an aggregate market value equal to 10 percent or more of the aggregate market value of all of the outstanding voting shares of the issuing public corporation; or
(C) represents 10 percent or more of the earning power or net income, determined on a consolidated basis, of the issuing public corporation;
(3) the issuance or transfer by an issuing public corporation or a subsidiary to an affiliated shareholder or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder, in one transaction or a series of transactions, of shares of the issuing public corporation or a subsidiary, except by the exercise of warrants or rights to purchase shares of the issuing public corporation offered, or a share dividend paid, pro rata to all shareholders of the issuing public corporation after the affiliated shareholder's share acquisition date;
(4) the adoption of a plan or proposal for the liquidation, winding up, or dissolution of an issuing public corporation proposed by or under any agreement, arrangement, or understanding, regardless of whether in writing, with an affiliated shareholder or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder;
(5) a reclassification of securities, including a reverse share split or a share split-up, share dividend, or other distribution of shares, a recapitalization of the issuing public corporation, a merger of the issuing public corporation with a subsidiary or pursuant to which the assets and liabilities of the issuing public corporation are allocated among two or more surviving or new domestic or foreign corporations or other entities, or any other transaction proposed by or under an agreement, arrangement, or understanding, regardless of whether in writing, with an affiliated shareholder or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder that has the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate ownership percentage of the outstanding shares of a class or series of voting shares or securities convertible into voting shares of the issuing public corporation that is beneficially owned by the affiliated shareholder or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder, except as a result of immaterial changes due to fractional share adjustments; or
(6) the direct or indirect receipt by an affiliated shareholder or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder of the benefit of a loan, advance, guarantee, pledge, or other financial assistance or a tax credit or other tax advantage provided by or through the issuing public corporation, except proportionately as a shareholder of the issuing public corporation.
§ 21.605. CONTROL.
(a) For purposes of this subchapter, a person has control of another person if the person has possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the other person, through the ownership of equity securities, by contract, or in another manner.
(b) A person's beneficial ownership of 10 percent or more of a person's outstanding voting shares or similar interests creates a presumption that the person has control of the other person, but a person is not considered to have control of another person who holds the voting shares or similar interests in good faith and not to circumvent this part, as an agent, bank, broker, nominee, custodian, or trustee for one or more beneficial owners who do not individually or as a group have control of the person.
§ 21.606. THREE-YEAR MORATORIUM ON CERTAIN BUSINESS COMBINATIONS.
An issuing public corporation may not, directly or indirectly, enter into or engage in a business combination with an affiliated shareholder, or any affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder, during the three-year period immediately following the affiliated shareholder's share acquisition date unless:
(1) the business combination or the purchase or acquisition of shares made by the affiliated shareholder on the affiliated shareholder's share acquisition date is approved by the board of directors of the issuing public corporation before the affiliated shareholder's share acquisition date; or
(2) the business combination is approved, by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting shares of the issuing public corporation not beneficially owned by the affiliated shareholder or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder, at a meeting of shareholders called for that purpose not less than six months after the affiliated shareholder's share acquisition date. Approval may not be by written consent.
§ 21.607. APPLICATION OF MORATORIUM.
Section 21.606 does not apply to:
(1) a business combination of an issuing public corporation if:
(A) the original articles of incorporation or certificate of formation, as applicable, or the original bylaws of the corporation contain a provision expressly electing not to be governed by this subchapter;
(B) before December 31, 1997, the corporation adopted an amendment to the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the corporation expressly electing not to be governed by this subchapter; or
(C) after December 31, 1997, the corporation adopts an amendment to the articles of incorporation or certificate of formation, as applicable, or the bylaws of the corporation, approved by the affirmative vote of the holders, other than an affiliated shareholder or an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder, of at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting shares of the issuing public corporation, expressly electing not to be governed by this subchapter, except that the amendment to the articles of incorporation or certificate of formation, as applicable, or the bylaws takes effect 18 months after the date of the vote and does not apply to a business combination of the issuing public corporation with an affiliated shareholder whose share acquisition date is on or before the effective date of the amendment;
(2) a business combination of an issuing public corporation with an affiliated shareholder who became an affiliated shareholder inadvertently, if the affiliated shareholder:
(A) as soon as practicable divests itself of a sufficient number of the voting shares of the issuing public corporation so that the affiliated shareholder no longer is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting shares of the issuing public corporation; and
(B) would not at any time within the three-year period preceding the announcement date of the business combination have been an affiliated shareholder except for the inadvertent acquisition;
(3) a business combination with an affiliated shareholder who was the beneficial owner of 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting shares of the issuing public corporation on December 31, 1996, and continuously until the announcement date of the business combination;
(4) a business combination with an affiliated shareholder who became an affiliated shareholder through a transfer of shares of the issuing public corporation by will or intestate succession and continuously was an affiliated shareholder until the announcement date of the business combination; or
(5) a business combination of an issuing public corporation with a domestic wholly owned subsidiary if the domestic subsidiary is not an affiliate or associate of the affiliated shareholder for a reason other than the affiliated shareholder's beneficial ownership of voting shares in the issuing public corporation.
§ 21.608. EFFECT ON OTHER ACTIONS.
(a) This subchapter does not affect, directly or indirectly, the validity of another action by the board of directors of an issuing public corporation.
(b) This subchapter does not preclude the board of directors of an issuing public corporation from taking other action in accordance with law.
(c) The board of directors of an issuing public corporation does not incur liability for an election made or not made under this subchapter.
§ 21.609. CONFLICTING PROVISIONS.
If this subchapter conflicts with another provision of this code, this subchapter controls.
§ 21.610. CHANGE IN VOTING REQUIREMENTS.
The affirmative vote or concurrence of shareholders required for approval of an action that is required to be submitted to a vote of the shareholders under this subchapter may be increased but not decreased under § 21.365.