Shares

[izzy1311]

if a company acquires a 100% shareholding in a smaller company which it has taken over...can one purchase shares in this smaller company?

[dzug]

It depends on what it does with the shares it acquires - but normally no. The shares get cancelled.

Who would you buy them from anyway? The larger company, having set out to buy them all, isn't going to want to sell them. It would defeat the object of what they have done.