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share purchase rights

A right that shareholders receive that allows them to buy a certain amount of additional shares at an agreed amount. Share purchase right is normally transferred to existing shareholders but it can also be bought and sold like any other option.

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  1. Share Purchase Rights Definition | Investopedia
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  2. Share Purchase Right - Financial Dictionary - The Free Dictionary
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  3. Share Purchase Rights: Definition from Answers.com
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    Definition of share purchase rights: A right that shareholders receive that allows them to buy a certain amount of additional shares at an agreed amount. Share ...
     
  5. Forest Laboratories Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan and Declares ...
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  6. Shareholder rights plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    For a description of a standard rights plan, see Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, The Share Purchase Rights Plan in Ronald J. Gilson & Bernard S. Black, The ...
     
  7. Forest Laboratories Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan ... - MarketWatch
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  8. The Perfect Pill - Legal Affairs
    The directors' trump card is a controversial innovation technically called a preferred share purchase rights plan but nicknamed the "poison pill." Its legality was ...