Employment letter - merged company or shutdown company

If you have skilled experience in the past 10 years and have had more than one employer, you could possibly run into the issues below -
1. Your company could have merged or acquired by another company. 2. Your company could have shutdown.

Merged/Acquired  company-

Shutdown company-

For both cases you can get personal reference letters from colleagues. Refer my other blog for details on the same.

If your company was publicly traded, try to get official public letters that announced the acquisition. Use the letter of explanation to correlate your dates. For instance you worked for company A which merged into company B. All your supporting documents would be from company A. Explain that in the letter of explanation. 

If your company wasn't publicly traded and you don't have any reports on company merger or shutdown, add more reference letters from different colleagues.  Attach every letter i.e. joining, promotion, tax forms or salary slips (this is important because this could establish that you were employed with that company). If you didn't have significant experience in that company consider moving it to the personal information section and explain the same in your LOE. It would only minimize the hassle. Hope this helps my friends in odd situations like these!

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