Any-and-All Bid

  

Any-and-all is the rally cry of takeover artists, poaching usually public companies, where they set a bid price and declare, "we are buyers of any-and-all shares, up to this price." The likely goal is to take a control position and do something clever with the company they're buying out...like paint their lobby pink.

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