As someone that did mergers and acquisitions here’s what happens. Acquirer does financial analysis when determining a fit. X dollars will be bid to acquire and is often 30% to 50% and more of current stock price. Stock watchers then look for synergies ie cost cutting to justify price.
Simple. That’s now what’s happening. Human Resources will be cut as will financial jobs, IT will be consolidated etc. get ready and remember the borg.
Bumped a new reply from an old thread for info. original is here: @PLH7S1E-6Dqhw.