Recent Mergers or Acquisitions A "merger" or "merger of equals" is often financed by an all stock deal (a stock swap). An all stock deal occurs when all of the owners of the outstanding stock of either company get the same amount (in value) of stock in the new combined company. A merger adds value only if the two companies are worth more together than apart (Wikipedia‚ Free Encyclopedia‚ 2006). An acquisition (of un-equals‚ one large buying one small) can involve a cash and debt combination‚ or
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Legal and financial effects of the merger. In recent years‚ Wells Fargo and its subsidiaries have had a plethora of legal issues. These issues grew for the first three years after the merger. During the years 2009 thru 2015‚ Wells Fargo has had to participate and defended a plethora of legal issues that were filed against them or their subsidiaries. Throughout these years Wells Fargo was involved in a total of 28 different legal issues. Many of the lawsuits main contributor were Wachovia. These
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Merger Memo Learning Team B: Kathryn Alvino‚ Nadia Ge‚ Delores Jones‚ Wanda Soderberg-Beck University of Phoenix Author Note: This paper is being submitted on January 30‚ 2015‚ for Dr. Kale Kruger’s HCS/514 Managing in Today’s Health Care Organizations course. Merger Memo MEMORANDUM TO: All Employees FROM: Management Team DATE: January 30‚ 2015 SUBJECT: Healthcare International Organization Merger CC: Leadership Team In response to the recent merging
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The Failure of Mergers and Acquisitions Name Professor Institution Course Date THE FAILURE OF MERGERS AND QUISITIONS 2 RUNNING HEAD: THE FAILURE OF MERGERS AND QUISITIONS 1 The Failure of Mergers and Acquisitions Name Professor Institution Course Date The success of a any merger and acquisition is directly proportional to the level of planning that is involved. A lot of organisations do not spend enough time to
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CASE STUDY: Merger of Zipcar and Avis Budget Group On January 2‚ 2013‚ Zipcar announced that it would be acquired by the Avis Budget Group. This merger may let staff members of both companies to feel uncertain and uncomfortable‚ especially of Zipcar and they feared that company was swallowed. Motivational problems related with finance were of major importance to employees of both companies and here too. The senior management and executive members of Zipcar company sought to gather and discuss
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Mergers and Joint Ventures Stacy Cortinas‚ John Paez‚ Candise Pharr‚ and Ashley Wiseman ECO/365 December 17‚ 2014 David Kisel Mergers and Joint Ventures When a company is first born‚ the last thing on its owners mind is merging with another company. A merger is sometimes a voluntary and sometimes and involuntary transaction. If a company has found itself in a place of financial difficult or is simply exhausted all its resources to remain open‚ a merger may be the only way its employees
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Mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) is an aspect of corporate strategy‚ corporate finance and management dealing with the buying‚ selling‚ dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin‚ or a new field or new location‚ without creating a subsidiary‚ other child entity or using a joint venture. The distinction between a "merger" and an "acquisition" has become increasingly blurred in various
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group is that the acquisition will be based on what was determined as an “enterprise value” of Php52.5 billion. Enterprise value factors in preferred stocks‚ debt and cash reserves that are usually not captured by mere market capitalization. In this case‚ the package includes 1.5B in preferred shares that have five times more voting rights than common shares (now at 3.36B) but convertible at par to
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Comcast and AT&T: A Cable-Industry Merger The Cable Industry of the 1990s‚ and Comcast’s/AT&T’s Places Therein From 1990 to 2001‚ the cable industry was compelled to almost completely restructure; buffeted by forces both internal and external‚ cable operators were forced to make drastic changes in the name of survival. Influences at play in the early 1990s were only augmented when Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996‚ allowing “competitive distribution technologies…to
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Chapter-1 Company Profiles before Merger 1.1 British Petroleum Company British Petroleum Company (BP) is a British multinational oil and gas company. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world. It is vertically integrated and operates in all areas of the oil and gas industry‚ including exploration and production‚ refining‚ distribution and marketing‚ petrochemicals‚ power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy activities in biofuels
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