Trust and mergers hurt competition because they help create monopolies. When two companies merge, they are no longer competitive with each other and have a size advantage over companies that were formerly competing with both of them.

Advantages of merging two banks include the banks pooling their resources. Another advantage for the banks is decreasing their operating costs.

The benefits of going public using a reverse merger include, lower initial costs and bank fees, a shorter time frame for the process and there is no significant regulatory approval required for the transaction.

They do not usually lessen competition in the marketplace

The distinction in mergers and acquisitions means that the two words have different meanings. A merger is when a company merges or becomes part of another company. An acquisition is when a company out right buys another company.

Yes.. Because they both are in the same field. As per the defenitions the copanies in the same field join together is called vertical merger.