1. Mergers & Acquisitions

2. Financing capital: discuss opportunities & threats government subsidies bank loans issuing bonds issuing shares  acquisitions: buyouts and takeovers

3. Why? → MK, p 105 to reinforce your position to reduce competition to rationalize production to diversify products/markets to gain access to new technology...

4. Unit 21: Takeovers Pg 1 How can companies use their profits? Provide synonyms of acquire: Explain the difference between takeovers and mergers Explain: supply chain = Explain the difference between horizontal and vertical integration Explain the difference between forward and backward integration 1 Horizontal integrationA enables cost savings 2 Vertical integrationB increases market share and reduces competition

5. Unit 21: Takeovers Pg 1 How can companies use their profits? Provide synonyms of acquire: attain, buy, get, purchase, take, take possession of Explain the difference between takeovers and mergers Explain: supply chain = distribution chain Explain the difference between horizontal and vertical integration Explain the difference between forward and backward integration 1 Horizontal integrationA enables cost savings 2 Vertical integrationB increases market share and reduces competition

6. Pg 2 Explain the difference between a raid and a takeover bid AdvantagesDisadvantages A raid A takeover bid ● Explain the difference between a friendly and a hostile bid

7. Vocabulary to bid (v irregular: bid, bid) –to offer to pay a particular price for sth. The company is bidding 910p a share for control of AB Ports...The bidder is interested in... a bid (n) –a price offered to buy sth. such as goods, property, shares, bonds (Longman BED) Takeover bids: -unwanted / unsolicited / hostile<>friendly bid

8. Pg. 3 Why do investment banks encourage companies to take over other companies? Pg. 4 Explain conglomerate What does LBO stand for? L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ db _ _ _ _ _ s Which globally famous Hollywood movie involves a male character who specializes in LBOs? Do you remember what it is he does?

9. Pg. 4 cont. Explain: undervalued on the stock market Explain: market capitalization Explain: leveraged Explain: asset-stripping Why is the risk involved in LBOs small? HW: Vocabulary, p 106 & complete

10. TYPES 1.ACQUISITION / TAKEOVER 2.FRIENDLY TAKEOVER 3.HOSTILE TAKEOVER 4. MERGER 5.JOINT VENTURE 6.LEVERAGED BUYOUT 7.CORPORATE RAID

11. Cooperation of two or more individuals or businesses, each agreeing to share profit, loss and control, in a specific enterprise Combining two or more companies to form a new one Corporate action in which a company buys most, if not all, of the target company's ownership stakes in order to assume control of the target firm JOINT VENTURE MERGER ACQUISITION / TAKEOVER

12. A takeover that a company being taken over agrees to. A takeover that a company taken over does not want and doesn’t agree to. Acquisition of another company using borrowed money (bonds or loans) to meet the cost of acquisition. Often, the assets of the company being acquired are used as collateral for the loans in addition to the assets of the acquiring company. FRIENDLY TAKEOVER HOSTILE TAKEOVER LEVERAGED BUYOUT

13. buying a large number of shares in a corporation with undervalued assets to obtain voting rights to increase share value and thus generate a massive return VOCABULARY to make a takeover bid to merge to use the poison pill to take over to find a white knight to acquire CORPORATE RAID