[panick21_]

Is there anywhere a good breakdown of these leveraged acquisitions. Like a video or something that breaks down how that exactly works and why its legal and why the acquired company goes along with it. Its seems like such a strange mechanism. And the history of it.

[airstrike]

Why would it not be legal? You can take out any loan, so long as the creditor believes in your ability to pay it back with interest, which informs how it gets priced. This is basically Finance 201 and everyone is up in arms ITT

[panick21_]

But if that loan is used to basically acquire, or rather help another company acquire the company with the debt? So basically creating debt to facilitate mergers. But to be honest I don't fully understand all the financial engineering.