Exit Right (achieving A Golden Goodbye By Realising The Maximum Value For Your Business)

If you are an entrepreneur running your own business your dream will be, quite rightly, to realise a fortune by selling it or floating it. Very few people ever achieve this more than once, so learning by trial and error may be disastrous. What is more, being emotionally involved gets in the way of cool and rational thought and truly expert professional advice is hard to find. This book offers comprehensive, streetwise and practical ‘how to’ help for every step involved. Various exit routes are considered, but the emphasis is on the sale of a private company because it is the most relevant option for the vast majority of entrepreneurs. Barrie Pearson is uniquely qualified to write this book as an executive of multinational companies, he acquired several private business and later created Livingstone Guarantee plc, the first corporate finance boutique in the UK, which helped private companies to sell or to obtain a stock market listing. In 2001, he sold the business for a substantial sum, exiting very right. He explains all the step required to maximise the profit from your sale deciding on the route and timing, how to choose advisers, grooming your business for disposal, valuing the business, finding prospective purchasers, negotiating the sales, steering safely to completion and how to eliminate losses before selling. This book is a goldmine of expert advice, written by a highly skilled professional who later employed his own advice to achieve spectacular success. About Author: Barrie Pearson is Chief Executive of Realization- a company providing class coaching and mentoring to entrepreneurs and chief executives in the two or three years before they exit, to help them groom their business to realise maximum value. He is the author of twelve books.