DIFFERENT FORM OF MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

• Vertical mergers where two firms are in different stages of production of a product, e.g. a crude oil producer and an oil refining company

• Horizontal mergers where two firms are in the same line of business

• Conglomerate mergers where the firms are in unrelated line of business

• Concentric mergers where the firms are involved in different but related line of business

• Reverse take-over where the bigger firm acquires a smaller firm through share swaps and the smaller firm ends up controlling (taking over) the bigger company.

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