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Proposed edit
Replace: "while when the deal is unfriendly (that is, when the target company does not want to be purchased)"

With: "while when the deal is unfriendly (that is, when the management of the target company opposes the deal)"

Motivation for this edit is that the "will of a company" is fuzzy concept. Does it refer to the will of the board or broader owner community or the management or other employees or what. If owners oppose the deal then they just do not sell their stake -> the text must refer specifically to the will of the target company management -> lets say it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.100.27.29 (talk) 09:54, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Seems right. Made the change proposed together with that a merger of equals is a definition of a merger and not an acquisition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.104.102.35 (talk) 15:56, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

This article is poorly constructed in general and I wish I had the time to go through it, but the most serious error is this one: the definition of an acquisition is certainly not that the deal is 'unfriendly' or that the target company's management are opposed, and in fact this is rarely the case. Moreover, though this point is less crucial, not all mergers are 'mergers of equals' and this is an informal description that may be *subjectively* applied to a merger, not a definition. Rather, both terms refer to the corporate structure of the entities post-deal. Incorrectly categorising all acquisitions as unfriendly ignores the many, many advantages companies can gain and ignores the fact that the management of many companies in excellent financial health actively seek them out by engaging with advisers. 109.147.154.142 (talk) 13:14, 17 October 2018 (UTC)