Corporate mergers and acquisitions can vary considerably in the time they take to be completed with timelines spanning from six months to several years.

Horizontal mergers are just one type of merger. Another is the vertical merger, which takes place when firms from different parts of the supply chain consolidate to make the production process ...

Coates, John C. "Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice." In The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance, edited by Jeffrey N. Gordon and ...