This article addresses my earlier post on Jeff Jacobson when I asked the question if Xerox could be bought by a private equity firm.
https://americanprinter.com/p/061419-private-equitization-platas-ampr
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OP here, I appreciate your insights, Faded Jedi!
Going private does make some sense. For one, huge swaths of info security and audit can be eliminated due to regulatory scope removals. Secondly the gyrations around stock price manipulation can go away, finally enabling transparency into what the business is and is not actually doing. And stock buyback costs could go to growing the business. Thirdly, much of the mgmt can disappear since their only purpose is to get the stock price where Icahn can cash out. This is necessary for any survival of Xerox to occur.