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Management Buyout - MBO When the managers and/or executives of a company purchase controlling interest in a company from existing shareholders
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A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company (law).

Overview Management buyouts are similar in all major law aspects to any other mergers and acquisitions of a company. The particular nature of the MBO lies in the position of the buyers as managers of the company and the practical consequences that follow from that. In particular, the due diligence process is likely to be limited as the buyers already have full knowledge of the company available to them. The seller is also unlikely to give any but the most basic warranties to the management, on the basis that the management know more about the company than the sellers do and therefore the sellers should not have to warrant the state of the company.

In many cases the company will already be a private company, but if it is public then the management will take it private.

Some concerns about management buyouts are that the Information asymmetrypossessed by management may offer them unfair advantage relative to currentowners. The impending possibility of an MBO may lead to principal-agent problems,moral hazard, and perhaps even the subtle downward manipulation of the stock price prior to sale via adverse information disclosure - including accelerated and aggressive loss recognition, public launching of questionable projects and adverse earning surprises.Naturally, such corporate governance concerns also exist whenever currentsenior management is able to benefit personally from the sale of their company or its assets.This would include, for example, large parting bonuses for CEOs after a takeover ormanagement buyout.

Since corporate valuation is often subject to considerable uncertainty and ambiguity,and since it can be heavily influenced by asymmetric or inside information, some question the validity of MBOs and consider them to potentially represent a form of insider trading.

The mere possibility of an MBO or a substantial parting bonus on sale may createperverse incentives that can reduce the efficiency of a wide range of firms - even ifthey remain as public companies. This represents a substantial potential negative externality.

The Purpose of an MBO The purpose of such a buyout from the managers' point of view may be to save their jobs, either if the business has been scheduled for closure or if an outside purchaser would bring in its own management team. They may also want to maximize the financial benefits they receive from the success they bring to the company by taking the profits for themselves. This is often a way to ward off aggressive buyers.

Financing a Management Buyout Debt Financing The management of a company will not usually have the money available to buy the company outright themselves. They would first seek to borrow from a bank, provided the bank was willing to accept the financial risk. Management buyouts are frequently seen as too risky for a bank to finance the purchase through a loan.

Private Equity Financing If a bank is unwilling to lend, the management will commonly look to private equity investors to fund the majority of buyout. A high proportion of management buyouts are financed in this way. The private equity investors will invest money in return for a proportion of the shares in the company, though they may also grant a loan to the management. The exact financial structuring will depend on the backer's desire to balance the risk with its return, with debt being less risky but less profitable than Capital (economics) investment.

Although the management may not have resources to buy the company, private equity houses will require that the managers each make as large an investment as they can afford in order to ensure that the management are locked in by an overwhelming vested interest in the success of the company. It is common for the management to re-mortgage their houses in order to acquire a small percentage of the company.

Private equity backers are likely to have somewhat different goals to the management. They generally aim to maximise their return and make an exit after 3-5 years while minimising risk to themselves, whereas the management rarely look beyond their careers at the company and will take a long-term view.

While certain aims do coincide - in particular the primary aim of profitability - certain tensions can arise. The backers will invariably impose the same warranties on the management in relation to the company that the sellers will have refused to give the management. This "warranty gap" means that the management will bear all the risk of any defects in the company that affects its value.

As a condition of their investment, the backers will also impose numerous contracts on the management concerning the way that the company is run. The purpose is to ensure that the management run the company in a way that will maximise the returns during the term of the backers' investment, whereas the management might have hoped to build the company for long-term gains. Though the two aims are not always incompatible, the management may feel restricted.

Vendor Financing In certain circumstances it may be possible for the management and the original owner of the company to agree a deal whereby the seller finances the buyout. The price paid at the time of sale will be nominal, with the real price being paid over the following years out of the profits of the company. The timescale for the payment is typically 3-7 years.

This represents a disadvantage for the vendor, which must wait to receive its money after it has lost control of the company. It is also dependent on the returned profits being increased significantly following the acquisition, in order for the deal to represent a gain to the seller in comparison to the situation pre-sale. This will usually only happen in very particular circumstances.

The vendor may nevertheless agree to vendor financing for tax reasons, as the consideration will be classified as income rather than a capital gain. It may also receive some other benefit such as a higher overall purchase price than would be obtained by a normal purchase.

The advantage for the management is that they do not need to become involved with private equity or a bank and will be left in control of the company once the consideration has been paid.

Examples of MBOs A classic example of an MBO involved Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, a former plant in Springfield, Missouri owned by Navistar (at that time, International Harvester) which was in danger of being closed or sold to outside parties until its managers purchased the company.

In the UK, New Look (store) was the subject of a management buyout in 2004 by Tom Singh, the founder of the company who had floated it in 1998. He was backed by private equity houses Apax and Permira, who now own 60% of the company. An earlier example of this in the UK was the management buyout of Virgin Interactive from Viacom which was led by Mark Dyne

On September 17, 2007, Sir Richard Branson announced that the UK arm of Virgin Megastores was to be sold off as part of a Management buyout, and from November 2007, will be known by a new name, Zavvi.

Buy-in Management Buyout (BIMBO) A buy-in management buyout is a combination of a management buy-in and a management buyout. In the case of a buy-in management buyout the team that buyout the company are a combination of existing managers and individuals from outside the company who will join the management team following the buyout.

See also

Takeover
Management buy-in
Leveraged buyout

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