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When we go in for Mergers, the main aim of any company is Value Creation and if not value cration then atleast Value Capture. But the problem arisis when this allaince fails and it is seen that only 20-30% of the mergers succeed. The companies suffer huge losses. Losses not only in terms of financial loss but also the loss of image of the company etc.
There are various critical issues which should be kept in mind when going in for mergers.
Critical Issues:
- Over-payment
- Unanticipated events like technology obsolence.
- Adjusting with the Organisational Culture
- Loosing out good employees
- Loosing out customers esp. when they have apprehensions about the company with which you are merging.
These are a few critical issues, but more could be there and each organisation need to keep a track of all these in order to make sure that the step they are taking in other words merger is successful.
There are certain economic reasons why companies Merge and Acquire. One is to oust a delinquent managemtn, management that stop or slacken in producing Value to Stock Holders. This used to be the case before the 80's and there were lesser losses those days. Now companies merge for asset maximization and sometimes for growth like Infotech mergers CISCO does.
These new age mergers fail due to not heeding to economic needs of merger. One has to really study the economic value of the mergee, the synergy possible post merger and it should feasible on ex ante analysis. Ex post scenarios should be clearly visible before merger at the time of merger planning. Lack proper planning can also lead to value erosion ex post.
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