when will AMP HIT $2.00, page-62

The media have key people that are well paid to leak this type of information.

The media empires thrived on this decades ago and are very competitive in this arena, it is part of the business. They have people on the payroll whose sole job it is to find 'people they can pay to leak info'.

My opinion is as follows and this is only my opinion; ARES are doing exactly what Maq Bank should have done or perhaps have told them to do. If Maq Bank did it from the start, the SP would be $3 already and we know this. Seems more likely that Maq Bank legal teams approached ARES first with this plan and they kept it hush to keep a lid on the SP. Maq Bank are quite big in the US and have loads of contacts. Chances are that a senior exec had this plan to approach a smaller, less known firm to start the bidding on AMP so the price doesn't explode while maintaining distance from the deal to keep a lid on the price.

The world of M&A Advice is extremely tight, a small circle, very competitive and secretive and backdoor deals make it happen. These guys are the best of the best at negotiating and know how to play a deal out to get it for the price they want to pay.

Debra is a smart cookie getting in a Boutique adviser to oversee the happenings and to investigate the truth about the deal. These guys will hunt down people to get inside knowledge on the truth about the deal. She knows there's a game at play, there almost always is with a takeover of this nature. Capitalism.