Equity Investors Perception about Process Involved in Merger Deals

This proposed study tries to find the investors perception about process of mergers. This study also tries to find the influence of profile of investors on their perception about process of mergers. This study is fully based on primary data. Data have been collected from 513 equity investors in Chennai and Puducherry. The statistical tools of simple mean, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, chi-square test, correspondence analysis, ANOVA, post-hoc analysis and canonical correlation have been adopted to analyse the data. This study finds that the equity investors feel that SEBI is effectively controlling the process of M & A. This study also finds that the profile of investors is not influencing their perception about process of mergers.