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

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This situation describes a tender offer, which is a public offer made by one company to purchase a substantial number of shares from another company's shareholders. This differs from a consolidation, which involves the merger of two companies into a new entity, and a short-form merger, which is a merger without a shareholder vote. A termination is also unrelated to this scenario.