MY FIRM'S ACQUISITION My Firm's Acquisition

My Firm's Acquisition

1. As a CEO, you are trying to acquire a foreign firm. The size of your firm will double, and it will become the largest in your industry. What does your firm do and what does the foreign firm you are trying to acquire do? Where are the firms based?

My firm needs to ensure that reporting relationships are properly established in OATS so that there are no interruptions in a firm's ability to report to OATS upon the completion of the transaction. For general guidance on a kind of topics, encompassing OATS, considering organizational alterations, firms may refer to information on our Site. Firms undergoing merger & acquisition should pay particular attention to open limit orders that were established prior to the completion of any transaction. (Wyatt 2007) If the foreign firm has open limit orders on its books that will be executed under the successor firm's MPID, the firm should route the orders to the new MPID, and report the route to OATS, or provide the foreign firms' MPID in the "Mergers & Acquisitions Administration" field on the OATS report. If the foreign firm has open limit orders on its books that will be executed using the foreign firm's existing MPID, but with the existing MPID now assigned to the successor firm's broker/dealer number, the firm must contact my firm prior to the completion of the transaction so that any open limit orders can be properly assigned to the successor firm.

2. You are very enthusiastic about the opportunity to be a leading captain of industry and the associated power, prestige, and income. (You expect your wages, bonus, and stock choice to double next year). However, you are troubled by the fact that 70% of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) reportedly fail. How would you proceed?

For a merger to be successful, I will follow several key ingredients that need to come together for a merger or acquisition to be successful:

Strategy

Motives

Price

Fit

Integration

Ownership (Schweizer 2005)

Whether an acquisition is worth the effort depends solely on what is being bought. There are exclusive acquisition opportunities that can spectacularly boost a buyer's place in its market. With very cautious designing, investigation, and hard work by the senior administration group, acquisitions can be an excellent way to achieve a company's strategic goals.

3. What institution-based issues would you encounter? Discuss.

One of the institution-based ...