Restructuring is only needed if the buying company makes that a stipulation of the purchase. Seeing as how they are already working together, and letting us know about it, and they have been friends for a long time from what I've read, they could very possibly leave the O/S where it is and just reduce the A/S. Ford has 3+ billion shares, they went from 80 cents to 20+ dollars a share in a couple years in the 1980's. Their revenues are only about %10 of their market cap. The only thing that matters in the market is buying and selling the shares. Ford has a well know product, I know, but we could have that too.