As someone else said, in whole it is often a tax diversion, a purchase designed to fail to bundle other failures to write off in one go, or various other thin

As someone else said, in whole it is often a tax diversion, a purchase designed to fail to bundle other failures to write off in one go, or various other things Could also be Patent Capture if the companies has alot of patents If the company is large it will be sold in pieces to individual competitors of the different market segments. If the price is right a large competitor will buy it just to shut it down, basically a marketing cost for customer acquisition.. There are plenty of "valid" reasons a failing company driven into the ground by management is still able to be sold...