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Return of the LBO?

• baybal2 9y ago
  In much more crude form. What Hock Tan does is he gets ridiculous leverage, find near monopolist companies to buy, buys them, then quickly pays off debts by selling off almost everything from acquisition targets except for things needed to maintain that monopoly status. Nothing smart in this scheme
• r00fus 9y ago
  LBOs never left. That you're hearing about them now is simply because it's on HN. Oracle bought Peoplesoft using an LBO for example. Dell is another high profile LBO/MBO.