As a group these 20 deals combined for a total of $137 million USD in investment.

The deal will combine two companies with largely complementary product lines.

That deal would have combined the No. 2 and No. 3 companies in the long-distance telecommunications market.

The deal would combine two leaders in the fast-growing market for software-development tools.

The agency's staff is also apparently focusing more on the concentration of programming services rather than the cable systems the deal would combine.

The deal would combine two fast-growing telecommunications equipment companies.

What is more, the deals in the current wave often combine banks in different states and even different regions.

The deal combines two relatively young branches of venerable financial families.

A deal would combine two growing businesses in the fragmented logistics industry.

The deal would combine the two largest independent suppliers of software for mainframe computers into a giant with $3 billion in revenues.