The M&A Weekly Digest brings you a discussion about the current private equity overhang, how analysts expect M&A activity to fare in the rest of 2012, and a discussion about exit planning for private business owners.
Private Equity Overhang
Carl Doerksen looks at what analysts are estimating the current private equity overhang to be at before explaining why it matters to private business owners.
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Buyers and M&A Activity in 2012
“According to a number of sources, even though M&A volume for the first quarter of this year has been slower than expected, the latter half of the year should more than make up for it.
According to a survey conducted a few months ago by Deloitte, fully 40% of the 940 business professionals (most of them high-level executives in finance departments) ‘plan to tap their cash reserves in 2012 for mergers and capital expenditures.'”
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Exit Planning – Don’t put it off!
[I]f you are not prepared to run a company (and you become prepared by spending years learning to do so) and if you don’t have the passion to be in the business (which is what happens all too often with inter-generational transfers), your best option is to sell the company. The reality is that if you lack both of these characteristics, you owe it to the legacy built up in the company, the employees, and your customers to find a buyer who will successfully keep the business thriving.
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