502.407  Misstatements in publicity prohibited.

It is unlawful for any person to make or cause to be made, in any public report or press release, or in other information which is either made generally available to the public or used in opposition to a tender offer, any statement of a material fact relating to a target company or made in connection with a tender offer which is, at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it is made, false or misleading, if it is reasonably foreseeable that such statement will induce other persons to buy, sell or hold securities of the target company.

Section History: Early form

  [SS15, § 1920-u21; C24, 27, § 8579; C31, 35, § 8581-c23; C39, § 8581.28; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, § 502.28; C77, 79, 81, § 502.407]

Section History: Recent form

  87 Acts, ch 53, § 11


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