So most bankers don’t want two companies to slowly feel each other out, get to know each other, date before marriage. They want them to meet and get engaged on the same night. They want them in a drive-through Elvis-themed chapel where everyone’s a little liquored up so they don’t ask too many questions. They want the deal wrapped up in thirty-six hours, before anyone has second thoughts, so they can pat each other on the back for a job well done and leave you standing in a blue ruffled tuxedo trying to figure out what’s next. And if it doesn’t work out in the long run, well, they did their
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