While you can always have funeral plans to reduce your family’s financial burden when your time has come, there is no doubt that death will always be painful. The same thing is just as valid in business. However, investors in the ’80s knew very well how to take advantage of debt financing to purchase troubled ventures and turn them around.

Mergers and acquisitions can incite fear amongst the employees of the company being bought out. Will they be given the pink slip? Will they be able to continue rendering their services? Will they retain the same job positions? Will they be working with obnoxious new bosses? Such questions are just amongst a number of those …