There are strong arguments for including
management buy-ins within a wider definition of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process.
THE new management team of a Bridgend-based automobile components company are targeting growth after a
management buy-in, backed by HSBC.
ENTREPRENEURS David Geary and Samantha Condren plan to expand a Teesside steel company after sealing a
management buy-in deal.
And with the liquidity crisis the tap for finance to back
management buy-ins and buy-outs , was effectively turned.
And it's not just the big stock market buy-outs that will get all the attention - we will also be rewarding the takeovers and
management buy-ins at small and medium-sized companies.
STOCKTON-based business adviser Tait Walker has launched a service to support
management buy-ins (MBI).
Ian Hodgkinson, Gary Jones and Bruce Robinson lead a team with extensive experience of venture capital deals,
management buy-ins and buy-outs, business acquisition and disposals, joint ventures and commercial agreements of all kinds.
However, management buyouts had a stronger positive effect on employment while
management buy-ins were significantly more likely to show employment falls.
In coming months big companies, faced with the need to cut costs and focus on core activities, will be rushing to spin off parts of the business to MBOs (management buyouts) and MBIs (
management buy-ins where an outside element is involved).
Management Buy-ins (MBIs) subsequently emerged where a new external management team acquired ownership.
As well as advising on several MBOs and
management buy-ins, the team worked closely with South Wales recycling and remediation group Dauson Holdings on a number of acquisitions and advised on the sales of Hertfordshire radio station Hertbeat FM.
There continues to be a regular flow of disposals and
management buy-ins and management buyouts within Wales and I don't see this slowing down in 2007, despite the two recent interest rate rises.