"Probable translation: signed a gag clause forbidding any comment on acquirer's management. Expensive money." Or consider that they don't want to have anything

"Probable translation: signed a gag clause forbidding any comment on acquirer's management. Expensive money." Or consider that they don't want to have anything to do with the transaction anymore. If someone is trying to throw up all over you, you don't stick around and wait to see if he succeeds.