Treatment of Shareholder Loan in Acquisition

Hello Everybody,

assuming I intend to buy a company with a 100 balance sheet of which 80 is Equity, 10 Liabilities and 10 a shareholder loan.... Seller wishes to have that shareholder loan "acquired".

Why would I acquire a loan? Don't you usually subtract Net Debt from the Enterprise Value?!

Why would I pay money for a future committment that is on the balance sheet already?!

I would appreciate help with this case very much! Thank you, Lars

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The loan was given to the company in order to fund an acquisition that has been integrated into the company by now. I'm not sure whether it would be a logical move by us to indirectly finance this past acquisition.

You say "Either the loan gets paid back or it gets rolled over into the new balance sheet."

**Isn't this the same in terms of a cash-flow perspective? **When we pay back the loan we have a -10 cashflow right now. When we roll over the loan into the new balance sheet, which will be owned by us after the transaction, we will have a -10 cashflow over the course of the next years.......

 

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