corporate mergers
Companies joining together
Corporate mergers are combinations of two or more companies into a single entity.
The term typically describes the joining of roughly equal firms, though in practice one company often absorbs another.
Mergers may be friendly or hostile, and regulators scrutinize them for antitrust concerns: The corporate merger created the largest airline in the country.
Related transactions include acquisitions, where one company clearly purchases another.
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- due diligencePre-transaction reasonable care
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- economies of scaleCost advantages from size
tender offer · synergy · diversification · valuation · hostile takeover · power grab · deal · deal breaker · tax benefits · white knight · fiduciary duty · golden parachute · shareholder vote · board meeting · stock swap · leveraged buyout · antitrust laws · poison pill
- business consolidationmergers, acquisition, acquisitions, takeover, takeovers
- trade regulationantitrust, fair competition, trade practices, monopoly, monopolies
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- MGMMGM Grand, MGM Resorts, Ben-Hur, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz
- antitrustantitrust, price fixing, cartel, collusion, antitrust laws
- shareholder rightsshareholder rights, voting power, proxy voting, amendment rights, first refusal
corporate mergersspin-offs
Derived entities from originals
demergers · asset sales · carve-outs · liquidation · unbundling
corporate mergerstrust-busting
Dissolving illegal monopolies
corporate mergersstrategic partnerships
Planned collaborative business relationships