An acquisition/takeover is the purchaseof one business or company by another company or other business entity. Specific acquisition targets can be identified through myriad avenues including market research, trade expos,

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Corporate acquisitions can be characterized for legal purposes as either "asset purchases" in which the seller sells business assets to the buyer, or "equity purchases" in which the buyer purchases equity interests in a target company from one or more selling

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The documentation of an M&A transaction often begins with a letter of intent. The letter of intent generally does not bind the parties to commit to a transaction, but may bind the parties to

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The assets of a business are pledged to two categories of stakeholders: equity owners and owners of the business’ outstanding debt. The core value of a business, which accrues to both categories of stakeholders, is called the Enterprise Value(EV),

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M&A advice is provided by full-service investment banks- who often advise and handle the biggest deals in the world (called bulge bracket) - and specialist M&A firms, who provide M&A only advisory, generally to mid-market, select industries and SBEs.

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Improving financial performance or reducing risk
The dominant rationale used to explain M&A activity is that

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Mergers are generally differentiated from acquisitions partly by the way in which they are financed and partly by the relative size of the companies. Various methods of financing an M&A deal exist:
Cash
Payment by cash. Such

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