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1. Introduction
2. Benefits
3. Need for Corporate Restructuring
4. The importance of Synergy
5. Global challenges prompting for Corporate
6. Inorganic Growth in lieu of Organic Growth
7. Types of corporate restructuring
8. Differences between Merger and Acquisition
9. Strategic Alliance
10. Joint Ventures
11. Instances of beneficial corporate restructuring

1. Introduction
When a company wants to grow or survive in a competitive environment, it needs to
restructure itself and focus on its competitive advantage.
A larger company can achieve economies of scale. A bigger size also enjoys a higher
corporate status. Such status allows it to take advantage of raising funds at lower cost.
Such reduction in the cost of capital results into higher profits.
Corporate Restructuring focuses on cost reduction and improving efficiency and
profitability.
Corporate Restructuring means rearranging the business of a company for increasing
its efficiency and profitability. Today, restructuring is not an option but a conscious
choice made by companies.
Every corporate restructuring exercise aims at eliminating disadvantages and to
combine advantages. It plans to achieve synergy benefits through a well-planned
restructuring strategy.

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2. Benefits
Mergers, amalgamations and acquisitions are forms of inorganic growth strategy. Such corporate
restructuring strategies have one common goal viz. to create synergy. Such synergy effect makes
the value of the combined companies greater than the sum of the two parts. Basically, synergy
may be in the form of increased revenues and/or cost savings. Corporate Restructuring aims at
improving the competitive position of an individual business and maximizing its contribution to
corporate objectives.
Through mergers and acquisitions, companies hope to benefit from the following:
(1) Increase in Market Share – Merger facilitates increase in market share of the merged
company. Such rise in market share is achieved by providing an additional goods and
services as needed by clients. Horizontal merger is the key to increasing market share. (E.g.
Idea and Vodafone)
(2) Reduced Competition – Horizontal merger results in reduction in competition.
Competition is one of the most common and strong reasons for mergers and acquisitions.
(HP and Compaq)
(3) Large size – Companies use mergers and acquisitions to grow in size and become a
dominant force, as compared to its competitors. Generally, organic growth strategy takes
years to achieve large size. However, mergers and acquisitions (i.e. inorganic growth) can
achieve this within few months. (E.g. Sun Pharmaceutical and Ranbaxy Pharmaceutical)
(4) Economies of scale – Mergers result in enhanced economies of scale, due to which there
is reduction in cost per unit. An increase in total output of a product reduces the fixed cost
per unit.
(5) Tax benefits – Companies also use mergers and amalgamations for tax purposes.
Especially, where there is merger between profit making and loss-making company. Major
income tax benefit arises from set-off and carry forward provision u/s 72A of the Income-tax
Act, 1961.
(6) New Technology – Companies need to focus on technological developments and their
business applications. Acquisition of smaller companies helps enterprises to control
unique technologies and develop a competitive edge. (E.g. Dell and EMC)
(7) Strong brand – Creation of a brand is a long process; hence companies prefer to acquire
an established brand and capitalize on it to earn huge profits. (E.g. Tata Motors and Jaguar)
(8) Domination – Companies engage in mergers and acquisitions to become a dominant
player or market leader in their respective sector. However, such dominance shall be subject
to regulations of the Competition Act, 2002. (E.g. Oracle and I-Flex Technologies)
(9) Diversification – Amalgamation with companies involved into unrelated business areas
leads to diversification. It facilitates the smoothening of business cycles effect on the
company due to multiplicity of businesses, thereby reducing risk. (E.g. Reliance Industries
& Network TV18)

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(10) Revival of Sick Company – Today, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 has
created additional avenue of acquisition through the Corporate Insolvency Resolution
Process.
Notable mergers/demergers/acquisitions that took place are Myntra acquiring Jabong, RIL
acquiring Network TV18, Sun Pharma absorbing Ranbaxy; Wirpo demerger, Reliance
Industries demerger.
3. Need for Corporate Restructuring
Corporate Restructuring means re-arranging business of a company for increasing its
efficiency and profitability. Restructuring is a method of changing the organizational
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organization. It involves dramatic changes in an organization.
The strategy adopted shall depend on the purpose or organizational goals and hence a
different strategy shall apply to different companies. Corporate Restructuring aims at
different things at different times for different companies and the single common
objective in every restructuring exercise is to eliminate the disadvantages and combine
the advantages.
The above statement is true in every sense. The various needs for undertaking a
Corporate Restructuring exercise are as follows –
(a) focus on core competence, operational synergy, cost reduction and efficient allocation of
managerial capabilities;
(b) balance utilization of available infrastructure and resources;
(c) economies of scale by expansion to exploit domestic and international markets;
(d) revival and rehabilitation of a sick unit by adjusting losses of the sick unit with profits
of a healthy company;
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(g) improve corporate performance to achieve competitive advantage by adopting the radical
changes brought out by information technology.
4. The importance of Synergy
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All mergers and acquisitions have one common goal, i.e., to create synergy that makes the value
of the combined companies greater than the sum of the two parts. The success of a merger or
acquisition depends on whether this synergy is achieved or not. Synergy may be in the form of
higher revenue streams and cost savings.
Synergy implies that combined result of two enterprises is better that simple addition of each of
them, i.e. 1+1 > 2. It means that merger leads to operational efficiencies. The combination of
operations creates integration, which in turn increases earnings potential and reduces cost.
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Synergies can be expected to flow from highly focused operational efforts, rationalization and
simplification of processes, rise in productivity, better procurements, and eliminate duplication.
It leads to combining their resources, such as production facilities, marketing channels,
managerial skills etc. Synergy is based on an ability of an enterprise to utilize its resources for
better results in combination with another enterprise.
5. Global challenges prompting for Corporate
5.1 Restructuring
Industrial Policy of 1991, introduces liberalization, privatization and globalization in
the Indian economy. This led to relaxation of licensing, inflow of foreign investments,
foreign technology, boost to private section, Govt. disinvestments etc.
Due to these changes, traditional businesses became dynamic, Govt. protection to
private sector reduced, entry of multinationals in Indian markets etc. Hence, there was
considerable rise in number of suppliers and cut-throat competition.
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Competition is an important driver for change, and hence corporate restructuring
becomes vital. Competition drives technological development, cost cutting and value
addition. Innovations and inventions happen out of necessity to meet challenges of
competition.
Globalization leads to increased competition. Such competition can be related to
product and service cost and price, target market, technological adaptation, quick
response, quick production by companies, etc. Such competition drives people to
change and adapt and face global challenges.
Thus, to be globally competitive and survive in the business with surplus, an enterprise
needs to restructure with inventions and innovations.
6. Inorganic Growth in lieu of Organic Growth
Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization of Indian economy led to relaxation of
licensing, inflow of foreign investments, boost to private section, Govt. disinvestments
etc. Due to these changes, traditional businesses became dynamic, rise in cut-throat
competition etc.
Aligning business activities in line with the prime objective of maximizing
shareholders’ wealth has driven large corporate entities into taking various strategic
decisions.Basically, organic growth strategy relates to business or financial
restructuring within the organization that results in higher customer base, increased
sales, better revenue etc. Organic growth does not result in any change of corporate
entity.
Inorganic growth strategy includes change in the corporate identity through
involvement/alliance/association with other entities.
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In an organic growth strategy, there is change in the business model, along with
management styles, financial structure etc.
Mergers, demergers, disinvestments, takeovers, joint ventures, franchising, strategic
alliances, slump sale are some options that are adopted as a measure to achieve
inorganic growth strategy.
Rationale for inorganic growth strategy —
i. Orderly redirection of activities,
ii. redeployment of surplus cash in other enterprises,
iii. utilizing inter-dependence among businesses,
iv. risk reduction through diversification
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v. development of core competencies
vi. economies of scale through vertical, horizontal integration etc.
7. Types of corporate restructuring
To achieve strategic and financial synergies, following types of restructuring can be
performed :
1. Merging of two or more companies.
2. Purchasing assets of another company
3. Acquisition of equity shares of another firm resulting in change of ownership
4. Financial re-engineering
5. Buying-back of shares
6. Issuing different types of debts to meet the need for fixed and working capital
7. Infusing foreign debts and equity
Further, to achieve internal reorganizing, following strategies-
Reducing the manpower
Closing uneconomical/non-value-adding units
Cost reduction programs:
Disposing off obsolete assets
Reorganizing the business processes
Different modes of Corporate Restructuring are as under:
(1) Merger
(2) Demerger
(3) Reverse Merger
(4) Disinvestment
(5) Takeovers
(6) Joint Venture

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(7) Strategic alliance

(8) Franchising
(9) Slump Sale
8. Differences between Merger and Acquisition
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9. Strategic Alliance
Strategic Alliance is an agreement between two or more parties to collaborate/cooperate with
each other in order to achieve certain commercial objectives.
In a strategic alliance, all participating companies retain their independent existence.
In other words, no separate entity is created.
Strategic alliance is a partnership between enterprises for common benefits such as
cost reduction, technology sharing, product development, market access etc.
The basic idea is to pool resources and facilitate innovative ideas and techniques with
the common objective of sharing benefits. E.g. Flipkart and OLX.
Strategic alliances allow organizations to pursue opportunities at a faster pace. It
provides access to additional knowledge and resources that are held by the other party.
10. Joint Ventures
Joint Venture is a separate entity formed by two or more companies to undertake commercial
activities together. In a joint venture, a new enterprise is formed with participation in ownership,
control and management of two or more parties.
The parties agree to contribute equity to form a new entity and shares the revenues,
expenses and capital of the company. E.g. Vistara Airlines is a JV between Tata and
Singapore Airlines.
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A joint venture may be of two types —

i. Project based JV entered into by the companies in order to achieve specific tasks.
ii. Functional based JV is entered into by companies in order to achieve mutual benefit.
A joint venture provides access to assets, knowledge and funds from both of its partners
it can combine the best features of those companies without altering the parent
companies.
11. Instances of beneficial corporate restructuring
1. L&T Ltd. demerged its cement division into a separate company Ultratech Cement Co. Ltd.
Later, the resulting company was transferred to Grasim Industries (Aditya Birla Group).
Post deal, L&T benefited from realized value of its cement division and focus on their core
businesses such as engineering and construction. Grasim Ind. was benefited through
economies of scale, increased capacity, overall competitiveness, multifunctional synergies
and combined resource pool.
2. Tata Steel Ltd. acquired overseas Corus Group Plc. that drastically improved the
production synergies for Tata Steel Ltd. Through the acquisition, Tata Steel Ltd. could
combine its low-cost production with the high quality of Corus. It resulted utilization of
wide retail and distribution network, technology transfer and enhanced R&D capabilities.
3. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratory Ltd. is known for their inorganic growth strategies. Since its
formation in 1984, it has acquired many companies such as Benzex Lab (1984), Meridian
Healthcare (2002), Falcon (2005), Betapharm (2006), DowPharma Small Molecules Business
(2008), BASF (2008), Alliance with GlaxoSmithKline (2009).
4. Piramal Healthcare transferred its undertaking (Formulation business) to Abbot
Healthcare on a slump sale basis. The deal was finalized for a lumpsum consideration. The
deal also contained a non-compete clause, which prohibited Primal group from entering in
similar formulation business. As per Section 50B of the Income Tax Act, capital gains
arising from the deal were taxed, without any indexation benefit (applicable for long term
assets)
5. Bharti Airtel Ltd. acquired Zain Telecom (Africa business) through a leveraged buyout
strategy. The acquisition of Zain Africa International BV was majorly financed through
borrowed funds. Bharati Airtel formed a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and the deal was
structured through the SPV. Hence, the Balance Sheet of Bharati Airtel was untouched.
However, as a guarantor for special purpose vehicles, Bharti Airtel assumes full
responsibility.

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