1- What are the Rules and Guidelines for Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Union?
Acquisition, in European sense, is an unfriendly or hostile takeover of one organization by another. In a sense, a larger fish swallows a smaller fish. According to Schäfer (2009) the parent organization maintains control over the child organization, as measured by number of board seats in the new organization occupied by board members from the parent organization, or as measured by members of the top management team of the parent organization maintaining executive positions in the combined organization. The converse is true for ...