They make the company pay them dividends while saddling the company with their debt.
Yes that is true. Is the sum of dividends over X years >= the amount of equity wiped out in a Chapter 7 liquidation? Impossible to say... the company is private.
They make
They didn't make them do anything. They bought the company... they can do what they want as owners. That's just how this game works.
And that's not a good enough argument anymore. They did force this upon the company, and they are feeling absolutely none of the consequences of their decision.
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"Bain doesn't get off the hook here with zero losses."
They make the company pay them dividends while saddling the company with their debt.
"The debtors however get screwed even further... most if not all of them get absolutely nothing."
And yet, they keep lending to these vultures. I have no sympathy.
Yes that is true. Is the sum of dividends over X years >= the amount of equity wiped out in a Chapter 7 liquidation? Impossible to say... the company is private.
They didn't make them do anything. They bought the company... they can do what they want as owners. That's just how this game works.
And that's not a good enough argument anymore. They did force this upon the company, and they are feeling absolutely none of the consequences of their decision.
Man I wish I knew the fine details of the books of a multi-billion dollar private equity firm like you do.