Description:
Mergers & acquisitions are strategic decisions taken for maximising the company's growth opportunities. The mergers and acquisition is used in order to gain strength, expand the customer base, cut competition or enter into a new market or product segment. A firm grows overnight through corporate combinations in the form of mergers, acquisitions, amalgamations and takeovers. These combinations have become an important feature of corporate restructuring and play an important role in the inorganic growth of leading companies the world over.Similar trend is seen in India Inc. with increasing exposure to both domestic and international competition. Keeping this in view the title “Handbook on Mergers, Amalgamations and takeovers” provides useful insights in an easy to understand manner to the professionals dealing with the subject.