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Mergers & acquisitions

Referring to the aspect of corporate strategy, finance and management that deals with the buying, selling or combining of different companies that can assist a growing company to grow rapidly without having to create another business entity.

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Takeover defences

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

Protective devices put in place by a firm to frustrate, slow down, or raise the cost of a takeover.

Supervoting stock

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

A class of voting stock having voting rights many times those of other classes of stock.

Takeover

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

Generic term referring to a change in the controlling ownership interest of a corporation.

Synergy

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

The notion that the value of the combined enterprises will exceed the sum of their individual values.

Subsidiary merger

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

A transaction in which the target becomes a subsidiary of the parent.

Target company

Banking; Mergers & acquisitions

The firm that is being solicited by the acquiring company.

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