Mergers And Acquisitions Consultant Prints

'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?'

'Did I say 'merger'? I meant 'acquisition'.'

"Tell me straight, doctor, how many more takeover battles do I have left in me?"

"We need more reasons to merge than you want to make new friends."

Was Jonah being swallowed by the whale just another way of saying his company was taken over by a conglomerate?

"Well, it looks like the merger is off."

'They sold the company in 2001? I was wondering why things were slow.'

"What if he's bluffing? What if he's not? What if the room just gets too hot?"

'We divested ourselves of a division here, a subsidiary there, a branch here, an affiliate there...there's nothing left!'

"I see we're going up against the Big Guys."

"It's Swamp & Swallow - they're making an offer we can't refuse!"

"They've agreed to the merger, the sticking point is who is swallowing who?"

Takeovers.

'Uh - oh... this looks like an unfriendly takeover!'

Fish and color

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'

'Make them a four billion dollar takeover offer, but don't cause a fuss.'

"Cheer up, if this carries on we could become a very attractive takeover target.

"So far it doesn't look like a hostile takeover."

'I understand they specialize in acquisitions.'

"I believe he was the victim of a hostile takeover."

"Nobody wants to merge with us."

'With the firm growing at the speed it has there are bound to be a few problems...'

"Hey team, meet our new V.P. of acquisitions and mergers." (businessman introducing a vicking, barbarian)

'Sorry, J.B., but I never merge after a first meeting.'

'I believe in aggressive mergers, Celia.'

"I gotta admit, he's one hell of a negotiator."

Business Partners' vows

"I always cry at mergers."

'It's okay if don't want to give us control of your company. We're perfectly capable of living with incredible disappointment.'

'Massive unpredictability is absolutely certain, maybe.'

'There's enough of us...we can take them!'

'A merger will enable us to have more people to blame.'

'A hostile takeover just wasn't feasible, so we agreed to a hostile merger.'

"I was able to negotiate it from a hostile takeover to an uneasy alliance."