Tracking Alpha
What it is
The soonest date, today or later, that moves the deal.
On the site asNextNext dated event
- Meeting, Oct 15:The vote: the shareholder meeting
- Tender expires, Oct 21:The tender: the offer's expiry
- HSR wait ends, Oct 20:A regulator: the HSR waiting period's end
- Outside date, Dec 6:The contract: the outside date, its extension and the go-shop's end
How to read it
It picks from the shareholder meeting, the tender expiry, the HSR waiting period's end while HSR is pending, the go-shop's end, the outside date and the extended outside date. Holder dates such as the proxy deadline stay in Key dates and the deal sheet. A deal that closed or ended has none. The Next dated event filter picks deals whose next date is within 7 or 30 days.
The date's colour says what kind of date it is, never how close it is; the deal sheet adds an icon of the same kind:
- Meeting, Oct 15:The vote: the shareholder meeting
- Tender expires, Oct 21:The tender: the offer's expiry
- HSR wait ends, Oct 20:A regulator: the HSR waiting period's end
- Outside date, Dec 6:The contract: the outside date, its extension and the go-shop's end
Related terms
- Shareholder meetingThe day the target's holders meet to vote on the merger.
- Tender offer expiryThe day the tender offer is scheduled to expire, as most recently extended. Holders who want the offer price tender before it.
- Outside dateThe date after which either side may end the agreement if the deal hasn't closed.
