Facilitating corporate tenders/dutch auction tenders and computer-implemented methods and computer systems thereof

Abstract

In some embodiments, the instant invention provides a programmed system having a computer programmed with software instructions that include at least: code to receive an electronic Tender voting request to conduct a Tender voting; where the Tender voting is limited to a plurality of employees who has owned shares of an issuer at a record date via at least one of: i) at least one 401K plan, and ii) at least one employee stock ownership plan (ESOP); where the Tender voting is selected from the group of Tender voting types consisting of: i) a Tender offer, ii) an All-or-None Tender offer, and iii) a Dutch Tender auction; code to identify the plurality of employees; code to generate a plurality of programmed visual computer screens to allow the plurality of employees to submit Tender votes; and code to dynamically output a report identifying a progress of the Tender voting.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method, comprising:
 receiving, by a specifically programed processing computer system, an electronic Tender voting request to conduct at least one Tender voting;   wherein the electronic Tender voting request identifies at least the following:
 i) at least one security of at least one issuer, and 
 ii) a Tender deadline for the at least one Tender voting to submit Tender votes, 
 iii) at least one condition of the at least one Tender voting; 
   based on the electronic Tender voting request, identifying, by the specifically programed processing computer system, the plurality of employees who own the shares of the at least one issuer on the record date;   generating, by the specifically programed processing computer system, a Tender control number for each employee of the plurality of employees;
 wherein the Tender control number comprises at least one Tender tag; 
 wherein the Tender control number is associated in data records with at least:
 i) such employee, and 
 ii) an amount of the shares of the at least one issuer that such employee has owned on the record date; 
 
   transmitting, by the specifically programed processing computer system, to each employee of the plurality of employees, a Tender vote invitation to submit a Tender vote in the at least one Tender voting;   wherein the Tender vote invitation comprises the Tender control number encoded within the Tender vote invitation;   receiving, by the specifically programed processing computer system, the Tender control number from a respective employee;   in response to the receiving the Tender control number, generating, by the specifically programed processing computer system, a plurality of programmed visual computer screens to allow such respective employee to submit the Tender vote;   wherein the plurality of programmed visual computer screens are configured to at least:
 i) show at least one entry choice based on a particular Tender voting type, 
 ii) automatically calculate at least the following:
 1) a reminder of shares to be Tender voted based on a number of shares identified by such respective employee in a first entry choice; 
 2) a total percentage of shares allocated by such respective employee during the Tender voting; 
 
 iii) confirm such respective employee's Tender vote; 
 iv) allow such respective employee to automatically change a previous Tender vote when such respective employee revises the previous Tender vote before the Tender deadline; 
   recording, in real time, by the specifically programed processing computer system, a plurality of Tender votes of the plurality of employees as submitted Tender votes; and   dynamically outputting, by the specifically programed processing computer system, at least one report identifying a progress of the at least one Tender voting.