this might suck. the pirate company or whatever they are, are a bunch of people with no morals and a whole lot of money. they buy out a large portion of a company's stock, say 20%, and put pressure on the company to sell it. they usually do this to company's who are at a bargain price, i.e. intrawest. the reason it sold for so low is all the debt they were in, so at this point the assets are worth more than the company.
anyways, what happened is they threatened to keep buying stock if intrawest did not accept an offer to buy the company. for example, if intrawest did not sell, and the pirate company bought the majority stocks, they would shut down the company and sell off all the assets, making profit off of all of them.
so intrawest was forced to sell so they can keep the company alive. just hope the new owners don't dismember the company and sell off the company.
at least that is what i've heard about this whole deal. not exactly good news per say, just have to wait and see what happens.
someone correct me if im wrong