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8 unusual facts about mergers and acquisitions


CE L'Hospitalet

Centre D'Esports L'Hospitalet was founded in 1957, through of merger of the three teams from the city: UD Hospitalet, CD Santa Eulalia and CF Hércules.

Functional beverage

Thirdly, bigger companies compete for market share by acquiring smaller companies that may own a particular market sector.

Mergers and acquisitions

Conditions, which must be satisfied before there is an obligation to complete the transaction.

Covenants, which restrict operation of the business between signing and closing.

Representations and warranties by the seller with regard to the company, which are claimed to be true at both the time of signing and the time of closing.

Oh Hyun-kyung

In 2001 she returned to Korea and later found herself in the public eye once again after a hush-hush wedding in September 2002 to Kemongsa president Hong Seung-pyo (the M&A specialist played by Bae Yong-joon in the TV series Hotelier was based on Hong).

SC Young Fellows Juventus

It was founded in 1992 following a merger between Young Fellows Zürich (established in 1903) and Società Calcistica Italiana Juventus Zurigo (1922).

Shop 'n Save

In 1983, the retail chain was acquired by Wetterau, Inc. Nine years later, in 1992, Wetterau was acquired by SuperValu, and Shop ’n Save has been a subsidiary of SuperValu since.


Broker Dealer Exchange

BDX is mostly involved in Mergers and Acquisitions in the small to middle market Broker-dealer space, although it does have a business of introducing buyers and sellers of other financial services assets, e.g. individual brokerage and financial planning practices, books of business, trading platforms, and "shell" Broker Dealers.

Nicholas Stacey

In 1962 Stacey was a co-founding Chairman of Chesham Amalgamations in London, an innovative mergers and acquisitions company, which played a role in the reorganization of British industry in the Sixties and Seventies.

Richard Peacock

When the line was acquired by the York and North Midland Railway in 1840 he worked under Daniel Gooch at Swindon, but reputedly fled to escape Gooch's wrath.

Sprott School of Business

It covers Investments, Corporate Finance, Mergers and acquisitions, Derivatives, and a prep course for writing finance based research reports.


see also

American Banker

The newspaper has won praise for its coverage of important policy issues, including passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, congressional debates surrounding regulation of government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the near-constant wave of mergers and acquisitions that affect banks.

Andre Hidi

He is now the Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at BMO Capital Markets.

Didier Bellens

1985 He becomes Deputy Manager of the Pargesa Holding in Geneva where he is responsible for the management of holdings, mergers and acquisitions.

Esri Canada

Power Stream, the second largest municipally-owned electricity distribution company in Ontario, integrated numerous disparate enterprise systems following several mergers and acquisitions, and established a central repository of network asset data using the Esri-based ArcFM solution by Telvent.

Foros Group

Founded in 2009 by former Deutsche Bank M&A chief Jean Manas, Foros provides advice on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate finance matters.

GEC Plessey Telecommunications

During the mid-1990s, the name GPT gradually disappeared in the UK; and by October 1997 the joint venture, through a series of Siemens mergers and acquisitions in UK, evolved into 'Siemens GEC Communication Systems' (SGCS), which later in 1998 merged to Siemens Business Communication Systems (SBCS) to form the largest division of Siemens AG - Siemens Communications.

Henri Deterding

He led Royal Dutch to several major mergers and acquisitions, including a merger with Samuel's "Shell" Transport and Trading Company in 1907 and the purchase of Azerbaijan oil fields from the Rothschild family in 1911.

Joseph H. Flom

Malcolm Gladwell devoted a chapter to Flom in his book Outliers, crediting him with building out and diversifying the firm and anticipating the rise of mergers and acquisitions as a specialty.

Lyndon Lea

In 1990, after graduating in business administration from the University of Western Ontario, his career started in the mergers and acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs in New York.

SunTrust Center

Originally named the Sun Bank Center, the name changed after SunTrust Banks began its series of mergers and acquisitions in the 1990s.

Vienna Capital Partners

The company is active in three business areas: Corporate finance advisory (advisory on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and securities issues), direct investments and trust management services.

William F. Farley

He moved to New York City, where he took a job in the mergers and acquisitions division of NL Industries, a manufacturing company with a number of subsidiaries.