Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital recently announced the acquisition of Heinz,
effectively taking the company private.
Earlier this month Brookfield Asset Management submitted a bid of about $ 14.8 billion to acquire Chicago - based GGP Inc.,
effectively taking the company private.
Not exact matches
And it probably
took an amount between $ 500 million and $ 1 billion to motivate the co-founder, who already was worth billions on paper, could sell some of his shares even while the
company was still
private and, with his college buddy Bobby Murphy,
effectively controlled the
company.
(In an RTO, one
company acquires the assets of another and then lists on a stock exchange,
effectively taking the
private company public.)
And I will
take a hard line, too, against any attempts to replicate the mistake of skewing the market against public sector providers,
effectively bribing
private companies by offering them more money to do exactly the same job as you.