(08-17-2023, 11:12 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(08-17-2023, 10:59 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I doubt Billy Busch has enough money to do that.

Do you think banks and investors would back such a transaction? I ask because I know your background is in finance.

It would probably be a good size private equity firm that would have the financial wherewithal to buy that company.  And if they did that, I doubt they would want Billy Busch to be the CEO.  just because his name is Busch, that doesn't make him qualified to run a beer company of that size.

They originally sold out for $52 billion so that's going to take an incredible amount of money to buy them back.  This is all pure speculation on my part, but generally speaking, I would assume the transaction would involve a large amount of equity and a lot of borrowed money.  Somebody would have to put up about $10 billion and borrow about $40 billion.  

Again everything I said is pure speculation, and not based on any particular knowledge or expertise on my part although I have been through a few transactions on a much smaller scale.

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