If remaining listed, the best strategy for private equity or a...

If remaining listed, the best strategy for private equity or a strategic would be majority investor, is to provide a fig leaf to suck lots of punters in initially on "good news", and so that nobody can say they didn't have a chance to get out, avoids lawsuits etc too. Then you start a bad news cycle, and avoid providing any good news at all, while carrying out multiple dilutive cap raises that are underwritten tactically, and gain the complicity of management who want to set their options and incentives near the bottom of the SP cycle. The optimists gradually turn to pessimists and sell, as they are not psychologically equipped to deal with bad news. Then once you can't hide the change in the business cycle, and management have their bargain incentives in place etc, you start the good news cycle etc etc, change the basis of your forward looking statements etc

One possible way - from my very cynical mind - for entertainment purposes. I don't know anything about any of the players at all -so take it with a grain of salt.