Reverse merger is also known as reverse takeover, reverse buyout or reverse acquisition, referring to the listing through buying a shell—a practice quite popular several years ago in Chinese Mainland.

反向收购是英文Reverse Merge的中文译法，实际上说的就是前些年在中国大陆红极一时的借壳上市。

GOME successfully executed a reverse takeover and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2004.

于2004年，国美通过反向收购成功地在香港联交所上市。

The deal is complex: it involves a reverse takeover of Vallar by a Bakrie holding company and another Indonesian firm, Recapital Advisors, using cash and share swaps valued at $3 billion.

这次的收购比较复杂:它是由巴克利控股公司及另一家叫R&A的印尼公司发起的对Vallar公司的反向收购，涉及现金及股票互换总值共计30亿美元。