Joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions are an integral part of business. Love them or hate them, you can't just ignore them. Be it oil, telecom, education or food sector, or be it Reliance (RIL and RPL), Tata (Tata and CMC), Pfizer (Pfizer and Pharmacia), AOL Warner (AOL and Time Warner), joint venture and mergers and acquisitions have brought new life to the way of doing business in today's world. Mergers, takeovers, takeovers and joint ventures are members of the merger family. One reason companies often choose to expand is to merge with another company, take over another company, or form a new company (JV). A merger occurs when two companies merge into one company, for example with a new name. of the parent company, losing its independent identity. An acquisition means that one company takes over the other company. And joint venture is when a new company is born with existing parent companies. Merger is the merging of two or more companies with another existing company, or the merging of two or more companies to form a new company. In India, the merger according to Co...