Mergers and Acquirsition

1. Increase revenue Cost savings Risk management
2. Current and future strategic position or opportunities
3. Financial, regulatory and taxation consideration

Annotations:

• Mergers are those forms of business transactions where there is a combination of two or more companies, and in the process one or more such companies lose their corporate existence because they merge with the surviving entity.

Annotations:

• Acquisitions are those forms of business transactions where the shares or control of a company is taken over by persons who, prior to the change in shareholding or control, did not possess such shareholding or control.

1. Firms in the same industry
2. Different steps of the production process

1. Firms not related in industry or in a supply chain

1. Cross-border acquisitions
2. Blurred mergers
3. Financial acquisitions