Corporate Investments,Inc.,attempts to acquire a substantial number of the shares of Downtown Properties Corporation through a public offer to Downtown's shareholders.This is

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The situation described in the question is a tender offer, which is a public offer by one company to buy a substantial portion of the outstanding shares of another company. A consolidation refers to the merging of two or more companies into a single entity, while a short-form merger is a legal process in which a parent company merges with a subsidiary without a shareholder vote. Dissolution refers to the formal termination of a corporation's existence.