In most of the civilised world there are significant costs to just shutting down a business especially redundancy costs for staff. This is in addition to consid

In most of the civilised world there are significant costs to just shutting down a business especially redundancy costs for staff. This is in addition to considering outstanding debt in the business being sold and makes zero or negative purchase prices sensible in many scenarios. I don't have a list but it doesn't strike me as at all strange or odd even where there is no ongoing commitment or contract between the companies as in this case.