Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company

Buyout provides managers and executives with the necessary tools and strategies for leading a company or division buyout. It explores the details of the entire buyout process and empowers managers to seize their destiny and take charge. Managers learn how to:

* Find a company to purchase
* Develop a business plan
* Negotiate with the seller
* Win the "ground war" of due diligence
* Find equity partners and negotiate the management deal with investors
* Run the company after the MBO.

Buyout offers real-life stories of people who actually pulled off out-of-this-world deals and became rich beyond their wildest expectations.

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

practical and clear, 2007-11-26
Practical and clear and full of suggestions for avoiding potential pitfalls.

Only criticism: too short to cover the topic completely.

Ken Fagan
traducteur private equity
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Mediocre Read, 2006-04-15
I agree with Mr. Snoek of Canada's review. This book is useful to provide a casual reader with the steps involved in a management buyout.

The author provides an overly simplistic view of the process and demonstrates a lack of command of the details of actually completing a transaction. Among other things, the personalities of those involved must be assessed and this topic is ignored as are many of the salient financing components.

Professor John W. Kercheval, III
Washington, DC


2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Good for Beginners, 2006-03-23
Provides an interesting view of the MBO industry, but is less useful for those with a solid business / finance background. Overall, very useful if you're thinking of buying a company.


2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Straightforward Guide, 2005-08-04
This book outlines the phases involved in a management buyout (MBO) primarily from the viewpoint of company management. A more thorough explanation of the financial modeling process would have been useful.


8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

Stuart Trier, 2005-04-28
Rickertsen presents a comprehensive overview of a management buyout. Before you buy the book, you should know that he is talking about larger companies, and he is talking about fairly senior executives buying them. (One of his examples of a successful buyout manager is Roger Ballou who ran the travel part of American Express.)If you are looking for a company with $5 million in revenues, you may find valuable information here, but you will likely find other books, targeting a smaller company, more appropriate.

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