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How Merger is different from the Acquisition?

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Question added by Shahbaz Hayder , Group Head of Finance , Sharif Group of Companies
Date Posted: 2015/04/23
Muhammad Rehan Tahir  ACCA
by Muhammad Rehan Tahir ACCA , Treasury Manager , Farouk, Maamoun Tamer & Company

A Merger is business combination on which two or more companies involve and none has control over any other.

Acquisition is business combination where one company acquire other company and one has control over the other.

Mohammad Hussein Aldweek
by Mohammad Hussein Aldweek , General Manager , Invent Information Systems

By merger, all the merged companies will vanish into the new company

By acquisition, one company will vanish inside the other company.

Arslane HATEM
by Arslane HATEM , Associate , Baker McKenzie

Every Merger is an acquisition but not every acquisition is a Merger

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