When M&A goes wrong
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
When a company is sold there tends to be a standard playbook: There’s some tough negotiations. Then, the buyer gets a business and the seller gets a check. Everyone’s happy. That’s not what happened when a private equity firm recently bought a California grocery store chain. The FT’s Wall Street editor Sujeet Indap explains how the deal went off the rails, and how the supermarket’s owners might end up paying millions of dollars to sell their company.
Clip from KCRA
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For further reading:
The inequity method of accounting
Opposition shadows Cerberus windfall from Albertsons supermarket deal
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