backing into purchase price by looking at balance sheet? help needed

hi team - is this possible? looking at a balance sheet of a PE backed portco (recently acquired) and trying to figure out what the purchase price was. 

long-term debt is $200M

Total stockholder equity is $500M.... of that $500M, $10M is common stock and $490M is additional paid-in capital

To back into purchase price, would i just add the $200M debt + the total stockholder equity of $500M? or would it be the debt of $200M + $490M?

thanks so much. if you can provide context and explanation, that would be super helpful so i understand this conceptually as well. thanks team. 

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No, you are certainly not an expert. The sponsor wouldn't have paid a premium for synergies on a platform acquisition. What they paid is entirely market- and process-dependent. Also, typically, as sponsor, you try to avoid paying for synergies, otherwise you're not gaining the benefit...even if this were for an add-on, which it wasn't.

 

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