What، acompany needs to cover the costs of how it was acquired, now? If it's valued at the price it was purchased and making a positive revenue stream then it is profitable.
3. Carry out weird financial/legal alchemy to make the victim company solely responsible for paying off the loan
4. If the victim company can’t handle the debt and goes bankrupt, then you don’t own the company any more. That’s sad. Especially for the people who lose their jobs. But the people you borrowed the cash from can’t chase you for it, so no harm done, eh?
5. If the victim company pays off all the debt, then congratulations: you bought a successful profitable company for free!
They need to cover their debts. If someone uses private equity raider tactics to load the company up with debt, it’s likely to be bad for the company but it still counts on their books just as taking payday loans is ill-advised but legal.