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;   based on the electronic Tender voting request, identifying, by the specifically programed processing computer system, a plurality of users who own the shares of the at least one issuer on the record date;   transmitting, by the specifically programed processing computer system, to each employee of the plurality of users, a Tender vote invitation to submit a Tender vote in the at least one Tender voting;   wherein the Tender vote invitation comprises a Tender control number encoded within the Tender vote invitation;   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 user to submit the Tender vote.