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PS: in the case of Musk and Twitter, which I believe started this discussion..

It's Musk, so you can throw out the book. He just takes the stock value and then tweaks it so that the offer contains 420 because obviously that's his shtick since some time.

Wonder if the SEC will ever live that one down.

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> Musk, so you can throw out the book

Musk's Twitter takeover is a textbook LBO transaction. The negotiations were unorthodox. But that's been true of LBOs since the 80s. Usually the bankers were the ones up to the antics; this time it's the principal.

LBO, Leveraged Byout. I had to look it up. “A leveraged buyout (LBO) is the acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money (bonds or loans) to meet the cost of acquisition.”

Textbook except for the size of course. Very few LBOs are above $5 billion.

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