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keytapper
10y ago
Great, thanks for your response. You sounds like someone who is on au fait with these kinds of deals so I'll ask you your opinion on who were the winners and losers here. So, presumably TPG lose what ever the initially put in now that
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keytapper
10y ago
Here is where I am struggling with... did the venture guys actually make money in this case or did they make such a balls of it that they actually lost significant amounts of their own money? Would they have 'Looted' the place by
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keytapper
10y ago
Thanks for your insight, I will check out your recommendation. As is the case with most things in finance, I'm sure if I scratch the surface there is a fairly straight forward explanation as to why things worked out the way they did. I
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keytapper
10y ago
"But this was a deal designed to fail from the start." Can you elaborate on this further? I just made a comment earlier about how Avaya ended up in this situation and I have had a feeling, based on how the last few years have play
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keytapper
10y ago
I have been working at avaya for the last couple years and I have been scratching my head trying to understand how this company works and how it got into this situation. On one hand its a company thats hasn't made a profit in 10 years