Mergers & Acquisitions
Across
- 3. a strategy through which two firms agree to integrate their operations on a relatively coequal basis.
- 4. a restructuring strategy whereby a party buys all a firms asset in order to take the firm private.
- 6. divestiture, spin-off, or some other means of eliminating businesses that are unrelated to a firm’s core businesses
- 7. strategy through which one firm buys a controlling, or 100 percent, interest in another firm with the intent of making the acquired firm a subsidiary business within its portfolio.
Down
- 1. a special type of acquisition wherein the target firm does not solicit the acquiring firm’s bid
- 2. a strategy through which a firm changes its set of businesses or its financial structure
- 5. a reduction in the number of a firm’s employees and, sometimes, in the number of its operating units, but it may or may not change the composition of businesses in the company’s portfolio.