Takeovers in the UK ( meaning acquisitions of public companies only ) are governed by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, also known as the ' City Code ' or ' Takeover Code '.

Mergers with Daimler and Renault were also considered.

Mergers are also unable to account for the offset from the Tully-Fisher relation without assuming the merged galaxies were quite different from those we see today.

Goode was also a member of the Crowther Committee on Consumer Credit, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the DTI Advisory Committee on Arbitration.

Mergers of prefectures are also planned in some regions of Japan.

Mergers and lateral recruitment also became part of the firm's strategy.

BAS also had a stand-alone Mergers & Acquisitions Group, consisting of bankers that transact M & A deals across all industries, as well as a Transaction Development Group, which aimed to identify and market transaction opportunities.

* The Monopolies and Mergers Commission's decision to require BA to give up 5, 000 annual slots at Gatwick to its competitors and to re-apply for some of British Caledonian's short haul feeder routes, as well as the subsequent decision of the Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) to award these routes to rival airlines.

Also on 19 December 2006, UK Watchdog the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers announced that the last date for each of Tata and CSN to announce revised offers for the Company, should they wish to do so, is 30 January 2007.

Mergers yield bonuses for the two shareholders who hold, respectively, the largest and second-largest interests in a chain.

In December 2008 Commerzbank, who was in the process of acquiring Dresdner Bank, decided to close its Mergers & Acquisitions Unit.

Although Air Europe eventually failed to merge with British Caledonian, its management succeeded in having the rival BA bid referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ), a forerunner of today's Competition Commission, by claiming that this deal would destroy the UK's entire independent airline sector if approved without requiring BA to make any concessions to redress the resulting competitive imbalance.

Rupert Murdoch's News International acquired the Times titles in 1981, but the Conservative government never referred the purchase to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, mainly because the previous owners, The Thomson Corporation, had threatened to close the papers down if they were not taken over by someone else within an allotted time, and it was feared that any legal delay to Murdoch's takeover might lead to the two titles ' demise.

In 1968, a failed attempt at merger with Barclays Bank and Martins Bank was deemed to be against the public interest by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

This was " predatory, deplorable and against the public interest " according to findings from The Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

However, while the Monopolies and Mergers Commission cleared the Strathclyde / Kelvin Central merger, it found the Stagecoach stake in the combined company to be against the public interest.

A takeover bid by Lonrho was referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and declared to be contrary to the public interest.

From 1997 to 1999, Dyke served on the board at Manchester United as a non-executive director, and was the sole board member to oppose a takeover bid from Sky TV, which was subsequently rejected by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

Mergers with the Southampton College of Technology, and later the College of Nautical Studies at Warsash, led to the establishment of the Southampton Institute of Higher Education in 1984.

As of 5 / 2008, he is serving as the head of Media Mergers and Acquisitions at Thomas Lee Equity.

He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Yale and Duke Universities and since joining Sunbelt has become a licensed Real Estate Broker, a Certified Business Intermediary, Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser, Senior Business Analyst, Member of the Institute of Business Appraisers, and completed his Master – Mergers & Acquisitions.

Ratigan served as the Global Managing Editor for Corporate Finance at Bloomberg News Service, and before that had covered Mergers and Acquisitions, the U. S. Stock Market and IPOs.

The Manchester United board accepted a £ 623 million offer, but the takeover was blocked by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission at the final hurdle in April 1999.

The Monopolies and Mergers Commission was concerned that the market concentration of the big six brewers at 75 % represented a monopoly situation.

Mergers and acquisitions, which decreased the number of Argentine banks from nearly 300 in 1990 to fewer than 100 at the end of 1999, were expected to continue and lead to improvements in management and efficiency.

Mergers of movie chains have complicated matters regarding which company provides online ticketing for a particular chain.

Due to Granada's existing major presence in the motorway services market, a subsequent investigation by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ordered Granada to sell 27 of the Welcome Break sites.

Mergers of these railroads seemed a promising way for these companies to streamline operations and reduce the competition.

Headed by Samuel C. Thompson Jr., former director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, the center examines corporate, securities, tax, antitrust, and other legal and economic issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions.

It is well known for both its litigation and transactional capabilities, especially in International Arbitration, Capital Markets, Finance, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Ten companies selected the firm for its work in the areas of Corporate Transactions / Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment and Litigation.

Mergers had been ongoing for several years.

Mergers between the two livestock centers ( the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases ( ILRAD ) and the International Livestock Centre for Africa ( ILCA )) and the absorption of work on bananas and plantains into the program of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute ( IPGRI ; now Bioversity International ) reduced the number to 16.

On 27 June 2009, MCIL clinched the National Mergers and Acquisitions Award 2009 for The Most Innovative Deal of the Year.

Mergers can result in significant changes to morphology, as compared to the original galaxies.

Mergers of galaxies were common during the early epoch, and the majority of galaxies were peculiar in morphology.

Mergers and acquisitions ( abbreviated M & A ) is an aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or new location, without creating a subsidiary, other child entity or using a joint venture.

Mergers are generally differentiated from acquisitions partly by the way in which they are financed and partly by the relative size of the companies.

Mergers and acquisitions often create brand problems, beginning with what to call the company after the transaction and going down into detail about what to do about overlapping and competing product brands.

" Mergers of local congregations and use of the term " Unitarian-Universalist " in printed publicity date from 1932 or earlier.

Mergers and acquisitions have gradually become an important channel of investments in the economy, especially after 2005.

* Mergers of the low back vowels.

By 1971 the firm had established its Mergers & Acquisitions business along with Sales & Trading.

Mergers and joint agreements of professional football, hockey, baseball, and basketball leagues are exempt.

P & O objected and forced the issue to the British Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

:"... thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the business is about to get: bigger ... Mergers, takeovers and acquisitions are becoming the norm in the television: industry.

Mergers enabled tighter: control of information ... The Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano: commented ..." Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few.

Media Mergers have become more prevalent in recent years, which has people wondering about the negative effects that could be caused by media ownership becoming more concentrated.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.