The deal, a combination of preferred and common equity, is expected to close early next year. Infor's existing shareholders, including Golden Gate Capital, Summit Partners, and Management will maintain control of the company. But one of the more interesting provisions is that KED can name four of the nine directors of Infor's parent company. KED is a subsidiary of Koch Industries. The name, of course, comes from the Koch brothers, Charles and David, who have contributed to libertarian conservative think tanks. A statement on the Koch Industries website has a strong ring of populism, and also is not so far from some thinking on the left of the political spectrum. It talks about policies having created "a two-tiered society that gives unfair advantages to the financially privileged and politically connected few. America today is failing our most vulnerable and holding people back from reaching their extraordinary potential." Hmm.