1.   Also, while the firms claim to share a common culture and philosopy, the merged entity will have to surmount perceived differences among the two organizations.

2.   Although David of United Technologies would have run the merged entity, it would have borne the Honeywell name, and Bonsignore would have been its chairman.

3.   But Glaxo board members and management soon began to question why Leschly, the chief of a smaller company, had to be chief executive of the merged entity.

4.   But it is not clear how the companies would fare either as a merged entity or separately against their larger rival, Telefonos de Mexico.

5.   Crossair staff have complained that their founder and chairman, Moritz Suter, was excluded from the board of the new merged entity.

6.   Doing so could enable the merged entity to sell national advertising.

7.   He informed each negotiating partner that he would not be joining the merged entity, and he let the board know of those communications.

8.   Holders of Horsham subordinate voting shares would hold the same number of shares in the merged entity.

9.   If the merged entity passes regulatory hurdles, NBCi will begin trading publiclywithin three to four months, Kitze said.

10.   Now that a workable structure is coming into view, he said, the long search for a new chief executive to lead the merged entity will resume.