"In a sense you can consider this a reverse acquisition," said Jack Grubman, an analyst who follows A.T.& T. for Paine Webber.

On 15 August 2007 the Stobart business gained a stock market listing through the reverse acquisition of the Westbury Property Fund Ltd, a commercial property and ports company.

Early last year, to create an Internet presence, IMS proposed a complex transaction with a smaller company, the TriZetto Group, involving a reverse acquisition.

The merger deal was structured as reverse acquisition of T-Mobile by MetroPCS.

Genel Energy was created in 2011 as a result of the reverse acquisition of Turkish Genel Enerji by Tony Hayward led investment company Vallares.

The $3.4 billion reverse acquisition was calculated at a price of $10 a share.

For financial reporting and tax purposes, the transaction was treated as a "reverse acquisition" and accordingly, the above results included the operations of Acton for the period subsequent to the merger.

On January 1, 1985, the company merged with Omega Enterprises, a manufacturer of video slot machines through its Cal Omega subsidiary, in a "reverse acquisition".

Later there was a reverse acquisition of Snakeboard International by a company called MV Sports.

For accounting purposes, this transaction was treated as a reverse acquisition, with Massachusetts Indemnity assumed to have acquired A. L. Williams.