do shareholders get anything if a company goes private 
yes shareholders first must agree to give up ownership in the company in exchange for some amount of money if approved all shareholders will receive a certain amount per share often at a premium to the market price afterward they are no longer shareholders and the company s shares would be delisted from exchanges the bottom linetransferring services provided by the government to private businesses is known as privatization another use of the term involves publicly traded companies becoming privately owned jails and prisons are examples of government run services that sometimes are transferred to private businesses something like liquor sales varies from state to state some states manage all liquor sales while others allow private businesses to sell liquor 