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you're doing something contrary to our interest as debtors.
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If you really want to buy the company, you buy up all its equity--
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all of its shares--and all of its debt.
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The basic insight about Modigliani and Miller debt irrelevance is that,
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in the absence of taxes or any other special thing,
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the real value of the company is going to be unaffected by
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whether they finance by debt or by equity
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because the real value of a company is determined
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by the cash flow that they generate by the business they're doing.
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So, they are selling widgets or whatever and making money--
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the value of the company is the present value of that cash flow.
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If you want to buy the company