This isn't entirely true. Even at the most surface level, "buying" a company can mean almost a dozen things. For example, a holding company can buy your compan

This isn't entirely true. Even at the most surface level, "buying" a company can mean almost a dozen things. For example, a holding company can buy your company and do ... absolutely nothing, just treating it as an investment. This happens a lot too. Off the top of my head, AMC was once owned by Wanda Group based out of Dalian, Liaoning, China. Yet I'm sure that nobody who worked for AMC could tell, or even knew this was the case.