Mergers and acquisitions

iterature review of Xiao Chen Merger & acquisition (M&A) is an activity that made by the company to takeover or merge with other companies. Acquisition, also known as a takeover, is the buying of one company (the ‘target’) by another, while a merger is a combination of two companies into one larger company. When company carry out a M&A deal, the manager will provide a rationale of why the company want to carry out a certain M&A deal and an expectation on the synergy and benefit of the M&A deal…

Banco Popolare Società Cooperativa and Banca Popolare di Milano Scarl said March 23 that they signed a memorandum of understanding to merge to create the third-largest bank in Italy. The merger, which will give the combined company a national market share in terms of branches of more than 8%, will take place via the incorporation of a new bank holding in the form of a joint stock company. Banco Popolare shareholders will have a 54% stake in the new company, with current BPM shareholders owning…

2.3.2 Geographical Diversification Strategies on Capital Structure Decisions Geographical diversification is the process where a firm moves to new markets outside the home markets. This may include movements to regional or geographical countries. According to various authors, geographical diversification boosts the worth of shareholders by taking advantage of specific assets, by accelerating functioning flexibility and by satiating investors’ preferences for holding worldwide diversified…

Problems faced by Mobilink: Merger: The successful completion of Mobilink-Warid merger led to the companies to the integration process with other departments and other operational works. Warid’s network now has 3G while the Mobilink is soon going to offer 4G services. As per the integral process Mobilink has started to call ‘Mobilink to Warid” calls as “on-net” for selective calling plans. According to the current scenario the selective prepaid plans on Mobilink to Warid calls are from now being…

A merger is when two or more firms agree to join together to become one larger firm. There are several types of mergers. A horizontal merger is a merge between two companies in direct competition which share the same markets and product lines. Horizontal mergers are more common in markets in which there are only a few firms. This is because this reduces the already low competition and so the potential gains in market share and the synergies are much greater. If Coca-Cola were to merge with…

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Allergan PLC (NYSE: AGN) has declared that their boards of directors have collectively approved, and the companies have entered into, a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer, a global developing biopharmaceutical company, will combine with Allergan, a global pharmaceutical company and a leader in a recent industry model – Growth Pharma, in a stock transaction currently valued at $363.63 per Allergan share, for a total enterprise value of approximately $160…

APSEZ already runs a coal terminal at Visakhapatnam and it bagged a container terminal at Ennore (near Chennai) in 2014. It is also developing another terminal at Kandla. For Adanis, the largest coal importer in the country, Dhamra is a strategic acquisition and it will be the group’s first full-fledged port on the eastern seaboard.…

In this source, the author gives background about the Time Warner and AT&T merger by explaining all of the pros and cons behind it. The merger was first announced because the two companies wanted to join forces to deliver faster and more creative content to viewers. With the two powerhouse companies and one mission in mind; they are confident that they can deliver more than ever before. This new merger allows the two companies to create an alliance and eliminate the risk of other competition.…

Motley Fool website, UPS tries to spoil the critical merger of FedEx and TNT. UPS spend lots of resources on lobbying against this merger in Europe, arguing that “regulators shouldn 't allow FedEx to buy TNT given that they had rejected UPS ' own takeover attempt a few years earlier.” and because FedEx is a much smaller player in Europe than UPS, lessening the competitive impact of a FedEx-TNT tie-up. Even though the effort did not succeed and the merger finally went through, UPS was not being…

Live Nation is the most talked-about music and event promoter around the world with about 58,578,000 fans who have helped them conquer the music industry by storm. Live Nation was formed as a spin off in 2005 from Clear Channel Communications, then merged with Ticketmaster to create what is internationally known today as Live Nation Entertainment. This conglomerate has caused a remarkable difference within the music industry. Live Nation is amongst the largest growing music entertainment…