Merger and Acquisition is a corporate restructuring tool that helps private business organizations to expand and diversify their scale of operations and to achieve other underlying objectives.
A private merger means an arrangement whereby one or more existing companies merge their identity into another to form a new entity that may or may not be one of those existing entities. In laymen's terms, it is a combination of two or more entities into one by the accumulation of assets and liabilities of both organizations. There are varied objectives of mergers such as economies of scale, acquisition of technologies, access to varied sectors and markets, reduction in cost, etc.