ENTA has no dividend to serve as the impetus for an exercise-and-hold transaction; however, a potential tender offer for a portion of the ENTA shares currently outstanding (say 20%) confers the same benefit to an early exercise as a dividend payment.
A tender offer for 20% of the shares outstanding is exactly what happened in the ImClone case (#msg-95930596).
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