Complex sentence: However the era of the corporate raider appears to be largely over, in the later 1980's the famous raiders suffered from a number of bad purchases that lost money (for their backers primarily) and the credit lines dried up.
Split into simpler sentences: However the era of the corporate raider appears to be largely over. In the later 1980's the famous raiders suffered from a number of bad purchases that lost money (for their backers primarily) and the credit lines dried up.