Bank Act

Marginal note:Offeror’s notice to dissenters

• 285 (1) An offeror may acquire shares held by a dissenting offeree by sending by registered mail within sixty days after the date of termination of the take-over bid and in any event within one hundred and eighty days after the date of the take-over bid, an offeror’s notice to each dissenting offeree and to the Superintendent stating that

  • (a) offerees holding not less than 90 per cent of the shares of any class of shares to which the take-over bid relates, other than shares held at the date of the take-over bid by or on behalf of the offeror or an affiliate or associate of the offeror, have accepted the take-over bid;

  • (b) the offeror is bound to take up and pay for or has taken up and paid for the shares of the offerees who accepted the take-over bid;

  • (c) a dissenting offeree is required to elect

    • (i) to transfer the dissenting offeree’s shares to the offeror on the same terms on which the offeror acquired the shares from the offerees who accepted the take-over bid, or

    • (ii) to demand payment of the fair value of the dissenting offeree’s shares in accordance with sections 289 to 292 by notifying the offeror within twenty days after receipt of the offeror’s notice;

  • (d) a dissenting offeree who does not notify the offeror in accordance with paragraph 286(b) is deemed to have elected to transfer the shares to the offeror on the same terms on which the offeror acquired the shares from the offerees who accepted the take-over bid; and

  • (e) a dissenting offeree must send the dissenting offeree’s shares to which the take-over bid relates to the offeree bank within twenty days after the dissenting offeree receives the offeror’s notice.

• Marginal note:Notice of adverse claim

  (2) Concurrently with sending the offeror’s notice under subsection (1), the offeror shall send to the offeree bank a notice of adverse claim in accordance with subsection 129(1) with respect to each share held by a dissenting offeree.