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Operational Performance Improvements Of Leveraged Buyouts

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9. OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Operational performance improvements in leveraged buyouts comprise measures that increase

the cash flow of the portfolio company, namely sales growth, margin expansion as well as working capital.

Leverage buyout can come in different forms such as management buy-out, management buy-in, secondary buyout and tertiary buyout.

According to Ashish Jain (2013), “A management buyout is a form of acquisition where a company’s existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company from either the parent company or from the private owners”. D. Scott Lee (1992) states, “management buyouts occur when a group of investors, including some managers, buy all of the firm’s outstanding common stock with the …show more content…

They come from an outside source to improve on the poor management of the company that is being sold. They normally have it more challenging because they also have other purchasers trying to purchase the same lucrative business.

The main purpose for management buy-in is to create change in management and leadership to better the company. Change can be good or bad. In my opinion change is risky because one never knows if their new change would work out because change comes with challenges and risk. Cheryl-Francis Nurse (2003) states, “to reduce risk of failure and of being overwhelmed by the impact of change, the change effort must be guided by committed and resilient role models, who must plan strategically if they are to successfully lead the organization”.

Therefore, whoever creates and leads the management buy-in needs to make sure that they make full use of their shareholders in order to be successful and they need to have a team that drives and supports the changes that will be made. However, anything is subject to failure, so everything depends on the product, place, price and promotion of the product that you are selling. But should one have good organizational skills and many heads to lead, then that is when success prevails.

Trehan, R. (2006) defines secondary buyout as “a form of leveraged buyout where both the buyer and the seller are private equity firms or financial

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