Equilibria
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Yeah, I am generally a Carlock fan too, but this hyper abbreviated take leaves more questions than answers. If I had to venture a guess, I think you are onto something with this having to do with an ownership transfer from Samuels to Alexandria. Completely guessing, but I wonder if the end game is Alexandria owning and managing the lab facility (i.e., what Children's wants since Alexandria's a seasoned lab operator), but timing wasn't right for them to cough up $155M, so Children's agreed to act as a pass-through to buy them some time. Maybe Children's is getting some long term benefit for doing so. Also wondering if there's some financial benefit for the transaction to pass through a non profit? Not sure.
Those are all good guesses. It could simply be that the hospital is cash-rich and Alexandria didn't think they could get financing on good terms. Note she didn't say that the hospital would sell it immediately.