In the law of corporations, a merger is effected when one or more corporations becomes a part of, or merges, with another corporation so that one ceases to exist and the other continues to exist. In a merger, the company that continues to exist retains its name and identity and acquires the assets, liabilities, franchises, and powers of the corporation that ceases to exist. Attorneys who practice in mergers and acquisitions (sometimes called M & A) represent corporations and other business entities in strategizing, negotiating, and carrying out transactions in which two or more companies or corporations combine into a single new entity, a merger, or where one business purchases and absorbs the assets of another, an acquisition.
Lynn Haven is a city in Bay County, Florida, United States, north of Panama City. The population was 12,451 at the 2000 census. It has the smaller population of the two principal cities of the Panama City, Florida-Lynn Haven, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2005, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 15,677.