Project Report from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, course: Strategic Management and Business Policy, language: English, abstract: Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) are an increasingly important instrument for direct investment and growth in companies all over the world. They are very complex procedures, prior researches show that approximately 64% of all M&A's do not produce the expected benefits, more than 50% do not even repay the investment (Boglarsky, 2005). Common reasons, assumed by experts, are lacking preparation,...