1Research Associate,
2Professor,
As and when Merger and acquisition comes to a discussion, financial aspects will take a lead and less will be the humanitarian approach. By understanding this fact there are considerable research work which started focusing on this humanitarian side along with several research works on financial aspects. This paper tries to review the literatures in analyzing the major problems that is being raised due to cultural integration which may become a major basis for failure of merger and acquisition. Paper further tries to assess the role of leadership in managing this cultural assimilation which paves the way for successful merger and acquisition with special reference to transformational leadership.