Please pardon this very elementary question. What exactly happens during an acquisition? (By a PE firm) Does the target company's equity investors get cash? What about when the firm is resold? These are all just random guess-questions. As you can tell, I generally have no clue about what happens and would appreciate a high-level overview. Thanks in advance.
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