The public offer for purchasing with the intention of acquisition

Abstract

The public offer for purchasing with the intention of acquisition is one of the most important methods of economic concentration that companies use to impose their economic control over the targeted companies from the offer. Acquisition means transferring the actual control of the target company to another person, through the purchase of its shares and securities convertible into shares.

Despite the importance of the public offer for purchasing, as it is the most common method in the field of corporate acquisition, the study of this topic, in terms of its nature and the legal implications resulting from it, has not received sufficient interest from the part of legal jurisprudence.

The main problematic of this topic revolves around the statement of the necessity of having a special system for the public offer for purchasing with the intent of acquisition in Syria, which calls for studying this topic  in comparative legislation with the determining of the legal provisions for it. Through this research, we will study the public offer of the purchasing by stating the concept of this offer and its conditions, on the one hand, and explaining its procedures and legal effects from another.