Drawn-out mergers in the pharmaceutical business have left a troubled legacy.

The merger leaves Interpublic with three worldwide agency networks.

The merger should leave Morgan Stanley with 40 percent of the deal's $125 million in equity.

A merger would leave Japan, analysts say, with three big banking groups and little chance of further consolidation among them.

The merger would leave Missouri residents who are not wired for cable, about one-third of the state, under a satellite television monopoly, he said.

He had been working as an investment banker in Geneva when a merger left him without an immediate job.

The merger, Chief Fury says, would leave his department and community without a voice in future police planning.

The merger left Central Pacific as the third largest.

The merger left a fund with a better-than-average record.

And both are underleveraged, so that a merger would leave them able to continue making other acquisitions.