Listening: The Acquisition Meeting
Audiție: Întâlnirea privind achiziția. Asculți un dialog corporatist și faci exerciții de audiție pentru a înțelege detaliile unei achiziții între un transportator și un fond de investiții.
Аудирование: Встреча по сделке. Вы прослушаете корпоративный диалог и выполните упражнения на аудирование, чтобы понять детали поглощения транспортной компании.
The Acquisition Meeting
A family-owned carrier's president and her operations director review the private equity acquisition timeline in their Chicago office.
The Acquisition Meeting
Listen and choose the right answer
When is the acquisition deal slated to close according to Brittany?
- By the end of March
- Next week
- In six months
What troubling information did Ryan's contact reveal about the buyer?
- They raised freight rates too high
- They lost half their drivers within six months after cutting staff
- They refused to sign the letter of intent
How does Brittany decide to respond to Ryan's warning?
- Cancel the acquisition immediately
- Add a strict driver retention clause and rewrite the earn-out
- Accept whatever the private equity firm demands
What is Ryan going to do immediately after the conversation?
- Call legal counsel in Denver to draft the amendment
- Announce the deal to all drivers
- Resign from his operations director position
Listen again and complete the sentences
- Brittany: Ryan, let's review where we stand on this private equity ____ before the board call.
- Ryan: Sure, Brittany. We're on the verge of signing the final ____ with the Boston investment group.
- Ryan: The ____ looks solid, and their enterprise value offer is based on a multiple of seven times EBITDA.
- Brittany: Are you sure about that? ____ firms always promise the world during the deal announcement.
- Brittany: Oh really? What did your contact say about their ____ and operating ratio?
Sources: photo by Werner Pfennig on Pexels
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