Authors : Dr. Meena Kumari; Shaikh Noorjahan Begum Murad Hussain

Volume/Issue : MMK:ACE-2023

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10477397

Abstract : Mergers and Acquisitions have been most popular means of inorganic expansion of companies over the years. It is extensively used for restructuring the business organizations. Companies undertake mergers and acquisitions based on strategic business motivations which are, primarily economic in nature such as restructuring, expansion of the business, gaining competitive advantage, obtaining economies of scale, capture new markets where the target company is already existing, operating and have consumer demand that helps to enter into market without barriers. The main purpose of this study is to understand the merger and acquisition activity in India, the type of deals involved, financial performance of acquirer companies post-merger. The study focuses on analyzing whether mergers and acquisitions resulted in improvement in financial performance post-merger. For this purpose, the technique of Ratio Analysis was used to evaluate the pre and post-merger performance of some of the companies across various industries.

Keywords : Mergers, Acquisition, Pre-Merger, Post-Merger & Financial Ratio Analysis.