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"This paper looks at the role of both commercial and investment banks in providing merger advisory services. In this … investment banks. In their dual role as lenders and advisors to firms that are the target or the acquirer in a merger, banks can … possible reasons for these different outcomes. First, it is the target firm, not the acquirer, that must be priced in a merger …