Reverse merger please explain?
Ankush (Student) (1369 Points)
02 August 2016
What is meant by the term? If anyone can give an example. Thanks!
3 Replies
meenakshi
(trainee)
(251 Points)
Replied 02 August 2016
Generally, a loss making or less profit earning company merges with a company with track record, to obtain the benefits of economies of scale of production, marketing network, etc.
But in a reverse merger, a healthy company merges with a financially weak company. The main reason for this type of reverse merger is the tax savings under the Income-Tax Act, 1961.
A reverse merger is carried out through the High Court route. However, where one of the merging companies is a sick industrial company in terms of the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985, such merger has necessarily to be through the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR). On the reverse merger becoming effective, the name and objects of the sick company (merged company) may be changed to that of the healthy company.
meenakshi
(trainee)
(251 Points)
Replied 02 August 2016
Generally, a loss making or less profit earning company merges with a company with track record, to obtain the benefits of economies of scale of production, marketing network, etc.
But in a reverse merger, a healthy company merges with a financially weak company. The main reason for this type of reverse merger is the tax savings under the Income-Tax Act, 1961.
A reverse merger is carried out through the High Court route. However, where one of the merging companies is a sick industrial company in terms of the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985, such merger has necessarily to be through the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR). On the reverse merger becoming effective, the name and objects of the sick company (merged company) may be changed to that of the healthy company.
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