An Empirical Study on the Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Corporate Performance in India: A Pre and Post Analysis

Mergers and acquisitions have always been a go to option for companies considering corporate restructuring. Mergers and Acquisitions increase the size of the company and its operations. This research paper analyses the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the corporate performance in India that happened during the year 2014-2015. The particular paper seeks the objective of studying the effect of merger and acquisition on the liquidity, solvency, profitability and the valuation of the companies. To achieve the objectives pre and post data of these companies was collected and analysed using various statistical tools like paired sample t test to see if there is any significant change in the performance. The results show that the liquidity position and the profitability position was not impacted by the merger activity and there was an improvement in the valuation of the company.