Exit Strategies (Express Exec) [Paperback]

This book provides a fast track route to maximizing returns through MBOs, trade sales and IPOs. It covers the key areas of exit strategy, from setting objectives, choosing your exit route and aligning the interests of investors and entrepreneurs to completing your exit checklist. It includes examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Dixons' Internet spin-off, FreeServe, the successful flotation of Delifrance's Asian franchise operations, and Apple Computer's outrageously successful investment in ARM Holdings. Plus ideas from the smartest thinkers and practitioners, including Josh Lerner, Joss Peeters, Will Schmidt and John Wall. It also includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.

ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers. ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need: 01 Innovation 02 Enterprise 03 Strategy 04 Marketing 05 Finance 06 Operations and Technology 07 Organizations 08 Leading 09 People 10 Life and Work ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

NICHOLAS KING holds an MBA from INSEAD. He is a specialist in entrepreneurial management and organizational behavior and works as an independent business adviser to dynamic entrepreneurs. He has written for Computing, Management Consultancy and The Observer and is also the author of two other ExpressExec Enterprise titles.