Question of the Week: What happens to my shares if a company merges or is taken over?
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Last week we wrote about what happens to your shares if a company you’re invested in files for bankruptcy. That led to another question, what happens to the shares in a company if that company merges with or is taken over by another company?
When this occurs one of three things usually happens to shareholders of the soon to be defunct company.