November 20, 2024
The mechanics behind corporate raiding: how corporate raider positions are built and what the capital structure of a full acquisition actually looks like.
October 24, 2024
A corporate raider made $760 million on a company and never ran it for a day. Here is how each of the three routes to a profitable raid actually works.
October 22, 2024
A leveraged buyout and a corporate raider use the same borrowed money and the same logic. The word that changed is not the transaction. It is where the transaction happens.
October 18, 2024
The term "corporate raider" was a position a board took before it had heard the argument. It retired the word. It did not retire the practice.
October 16, 2024
The companies that got raided in the 1980s had been building the problem for two decades. The word designed to end that argument is the reason most people never heard it.
October 12, 2024
Corporate raiding ran on borrowed money, and the man who supplied most of it went to prison. Here is the era, the deals, and the indictment that ended it.
October 10, 2024
The term exists to discredit before the argument starts. Here's what's actually happening when a corporate raider shows up.
October 8, 2024
Most people who make a billion dollars do it by reading something correctly that everyone else missed. Sir James Goldsmith did it three times.
October 5, 2024
13 corporate raiders who reshaped how companies are bought, broken apart, and rebuilt. Some became legends. One went to prison. All of them changed the rules.