merger definition

merger

Voluntary amalgamation of two firms on roughly equal terms into one new legal entity. Mergers are effected by exchange of the pre-merger stock (shares) for the stock of the new firm. Owners of each pre-merger firm continue as owners, and the resources of the merging entities are pooled for the benefit of the new entity. If the merged entities were competitors, the merger is called horizontal integration, if they were supplier or customer of one another, it is called vertical integration.

merger is in the Banking, Commerce & Finance, Decision Making, Problem Solving, & Strategy, Economics, Politics, & Society and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.

merger appears in the definitions of the following terms: dissolution, congeneric merger, accretion, appraisal right, consolidation, accounting change, pro forma results, product extension merger, scorched earth policy, event driven investing and

merger appears in these other terms: reverse merger, cash merger, cashout merger, cash-out merger, mergers and acquisitions, downstream merger, vertical merger, supervisory merger, de facto merger, short form merger and

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