> Peace and love to everyone out there. Including the broker. The writer warned a lot of founders/owners of a problem they might encounter, in many M&A procee

> Peace and love to everyone out there. Including the broker. The writer warned a lot of founders/owners of a problem they might encounter, in many M&A proceedings, which is great. Also, maybe they wanted to get it off their chest. And getting blog content out of a bad experience is a silver lining. But I'm skeptical of "love" for the broker. Especially if people who wanted to know who that broker is could figure it out. Then broker might be more likely to call it "libel" than "love". My current thinking is that sometimes you should dance around some of the details of warnings that come from experience. Vague but honest phrases like "I've heard of" and "I've seen in the field" can help. As can being informed and motivated by first-hand experience, but using second-hand public examples from other instances of the problem, when communicating about the general problem.