180.1140(10)(a)(a) Shares, stock or similar security, certificate of interest, participation in a profit sharing agreement, voting trust certificate, or certificate of deposit for any of the items described in this paragraph.
180.1140(10)(b)(b) Security which is convertible, with or without consideration, into stock, or any warrant, call or other option or privilege of buying stock, or any other security carrying a right to acquire, subscribe to or purchase stock.
180.1140(11)(11)“Stock acquisition date”, with respect to any person, means the time when that person first becomes an interested stockholder of that resident domestic corporation.
180.1140(12)(12)“Subsidiary” of a resident domestic corporation means any other corporation, whether or not a domestic corporation, of which voting stock having a majority of the votes entitled to be cast is owned, directly or indirectly, by the resident domestic corporation.
180.1140(13)(13)“Voting stock” means capital stock of a corporation, whether or not a domestic corporation, entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.
180.1140 HistoryHistory: 1989 a. 303; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 112; 2005 a. 476; 2021 a. 258.
180.1141180.1141Restrictions on business combinations.
180.1141(1)(1)Business combinations during the 3 years after the stock acquisition date. Except as provided in s. 180.1143, a resident domestic corporation may not engage in a business combination with an interested stockholder of the resident domestic corporation for 3 years after the interested stockholder’s stock acquisition date unless the board of directors of the resident domestic corporation has approved, before the interested stockholder’s stock acquisition date, that business combination or the purchase of stock made by the interested stockholder on that stock acquisition date.
180.1141(2)(2)Business combinations more than 3 years after the stock acquisition date. At any time after the 3-year period described in sub. (1), the resident domestic corporation may engage in a business combination with the interested stockholder but only if any of the following is satisfied:
180.1141(2)(a)(a) The board of directors of the resident domestic corporation has approved, before the interested stockholder’s stock acquisition date, the purchase of stock made by the interested stockholder on that stock acquisition date.
180.1141(2)(b)(b) The business combination is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting stock not beneficially owned by the interested stockholder at a meeting called for that purpose.
180.1141(2)(c)(c) The business combination meets all of the following conditions:
180.1141(2)(c)1.1. Holders of all outstanding shares of stock of the resident domestic corporation not beneficially owned by the interested stockholder are each entitled to receive per share an aggregate amount of cash and the market value, as of the consummation date, of noncash consideration at least equal to the higher of the following:
180.1141(2)(c)1.a.a. The highest of: the market value per share on the announcement date with respect to the business combination, the market value per share on the interested stockholder’s stock acquisition date, the highest price per share paid by the interested stockholder, including brokerage commissions, transfer taxes and soliciting dealers’ fees, for shares of the same class or series within the 3 years immediately before and including the announcement date of the business combination, or the highest price per share paid by the interested stockholder, including brokerage commissions, transfer taxes and soliciting dealers’ fees, for shares of the same class or series within the 3 years immediately before and including the interested stockholder’s stock acquisition date; plus, in each case, interest compounded annually from the earliest date on which that highest per share acquisition price was paid or the per share market value was determined, through the consummation date, at the rate for one-year U.S. treasury obligations from time to time in effect; less the aggregate amount of any cash and the market value, as of the dividend payment date, of any noncash dividends paid per share since that date, up to the amount of that interest.
180.1141(2)(c)1.b.b. The highest preferential amount per share, if any, to which the holders of shares of that class or series of stock are entitled upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation of the resident domestic corporation, plus the aggregate amount of dividends declared or due which those holders are entitled to before payment of dividends on another class or series of stock, unless the aggregate amount of those dividends is included in the preferential amount.
180.1141(2)(c)2.2. The form of consideration to be received by holders of each particular class or series of outstanding stock in the business combination is in cash or, if the interested stockholder previously acquired shares of that class or series, the same form as the interested stockholder previously used to acquire the largest number of shares of that class or series.
180.1141(2)(d)(d) The business combination is a business combination as described in s. 180.1143 (1), (2), (3) or (4).
180.1141 HistoryHistory: 1989 a. 303; 1991 a. 39.
180.1142180.1142Determining market value and control.
180.1142(1)(1)For purposes of ss. 180.1140 to 180.1144, the market value of stock or property other than cash or stock is determined as follows:
180.1142(1)(a)(a) In the case of stock, by:
180.1142(1)(a)1.1. The highest closing sale price during the 30 days immediately before the date in question of a share of that class or series of stock on the composite tape for stocks listed on the New York stock exchange, or, if that class or series of stock is not quoted on the composite tape or if that class or series of stock is not listed on the New York stock exchange, on the principal U.S. securities exchange registered under the exchange act on which that class or series of stock is listed.
180.1142(1)(a)2.2. If that class or series of stock is not listed on an exchange described in subd. 1., the highest closing bid quotation for a share of that class or series of stock during the 30 days immediately before the date in question on the National Association of Securities Dealers automated quotation system, or any similar system then in use.
180.1142(1)(a)3.3. If no quotations described in subd. 2. are available, the fair market value on the date in question of a share of that class or series of stock as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the resident domestic corporation.
180.1142(1)(b)(b) In the case of property other than cash or stock, the fair market value of the property on the date in question as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the resident domestic corporation.
180.1142(2)(2)For purposes of ss. 180.1140 to 180.1144, a person’s beneficial ownership of at least 10 percent of the voting power of a corporation’s outstanding voting stock creates a presumption that the person has control of the corporation.
180.1142 HistoryHistory: 1989 a. 303; 1991 a. 39.
180.1143180.1143Exclusions from business combination restrictions. Sections 180.1140 to 180.1144 do not apply to any of the following:
180.1143(1)(1)Unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise, a business combination of a resident domestic corporation with an interested stockholder if the resident domestic corporation did not have a class of voting stock registered or traded on a national securities exchange or registered under section 12 (g) of the exchange act on the interested stockholder’s stock acquisition date.