In April 2014, Sun Pharmaceutical acquired 100% of Ranbaxy Laboratories for $4 billion to create world’s fifth largest specialty generic pharma company. Under these agreements, Ranbaxy will merge into Sun Pharma and the...
Apollo‐Cooper Deal: How It Collapsed
In June 2013, Apollo Tyre’s Limited announced that it would acquire Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in an all-cash transaction valued at $2.5 billion. But Copper decided first to terminate the deal...
Mahindra Satyam: Back From The Brink!
In September 2008, Satyam, the then sixth largest India-based IT services company, received the coveted “Golden Peacock Global Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance”. Then, just four short months after this...
Merger & Acquisition – The Telecom Way
A panel of Ministers called the EGoM (Empowered Group of Ministers) approved the final draft of the much-awaited merger & acquisition (M&A) guidelines for the Telecom sector which are likely to support the...
CIE Automotive And Mahindra Group Tie Up
Mahindra Group has entered into a global alliance with Spain’s CIE Automotive S.A. The agreement will come under Systech Sector, which happens to be the Mahindra group automotive component, and CIE Automotive (also...
Mphasis Acquires Digital Risk
Mphasis (an HP Company) is said to have acquired Florida-based Digital Risk LLC. Digital Risk is one of the largest independent providers of Risk, Compliance and Transaction Management solutions to the United States...
Antitrust laws- A Study
Antitrust laws play an important role in ensuring that corporate transactions such as Mergers & Acquisitions have the benefit of competitive prices and quality of goods and services. The antitrust laws accomplish...
IMPORTANCE OF APPOINTED DATE & EFFECTIVE DATE IN RESTRUCTURING
Introduction: In the case of merger and demerger, two dates are crucial, the “Appointed Date” and secondly the “Effective Date“. Corporate managers spend a lot of time to plan the exact timing...
Optimal Exit Strategy for a Business Owner
Exit Planning is a process involving developing and planning an optimum time to exit a business with the objective to achieve the maximum return out of the accumulated wealth made over the tenure of the business. I...
Acquisition of Distressed Assets
As banks and other traditional sources of capital find their balance sheets reflecting more and more under-performing assets, lending standards continue to tighten, leading to the well-publicized lack of commercial...