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Alternative Business Exit Strategies: 4 Lessons From The Boating Industry

September 10, 2026 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Alternative Business Exit Strategies: 4 Lessons from the Boating Industry Alternative Business Exit Strategies As private equity matures, more business owners seem to be asking themselves: "Do I really have to sell control of my business to achieve my financial, transition, and legacy goals?" Such thinking then leads to considering…

Owners Beware…Selling a business often leads to “Profound Regret”! Consider an internal buyout!

August 20, 2024March 24, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

I was recently told a statistic that I thought was shocking. A survey in 2018 found that 76% of business owners regret selling their business a year after the sale. Surprised by this statistic, I went in search of the source of this stat, which turned out to be from the Exit Planning…

Another Exit Planning Option: Sell To Management

March 27, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Internal Management Buyout: Another Exit Planning Option: Sell to Management The one exit planning strategy that most often gets overlooked is an internal management buyout but it’s an approach that has several advantages that owners should seriously consider. This post is a very short explanation of 1) how an internal…

Financing Challenges: How We Helped a Client Buy His Division From The Owner

April 24, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Management Buyout Financing Challenges: How Lantern Capital Advisors helped a client buy his division from the owner. Situation: A divisional manager wanted to buy his division from the owner who was having financing challenges with the bank. How Lantern Capital Advisors helped execute the management buyout: Lantern helped the manager…

The (Pricing) Power of Competition

October 15, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Power Of Competition[/caption] We recently completed a $25 million management led buyout for one of our clients. Even after doing this for many years, I am always surprised by what I learn or what I am reminded of. In this case its, the power of…

Message To Management: Don’t Wait!

June 30, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Last week I got a call from a CEO of small software company. His parent was in the process of selling his company. The process of selling the business was taking longer than expected and the price was below the range the seller really wanted. He called to ask me…

Weekly What If: Buy Out Business Partner

March 14, 2016April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

[caption id="attachment_342" align="alignright" width="300"] Exit Strategies[/caption] What if we buyout our business partner? For some companies, their biggest roadblock to growth isn’t a lack of ideas, motivation or initiative. It is a business partner that has other priorities. For companies with significant growth potential, this challenge arises frequently. One owner…

Selling Your Company To Management

May 3, 2010April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Business owners often overlook selling their company to management as a possible exit strategy. But for solid companies with good cash flows, selling your company to management may yield a higher financial value for the owner and a much brighter future for the business, management, and the seller. Our latest…

Partner Buyout: An Opportunistic Way To Build More Equity Value

April 2, 2010April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Partner Buyout: An Opportunistic Way to Build More Equity Value. Management Buyout and Leveraged Buyouts financing processes can be orchestrated in the same way in order to help individuals buyout a partner or majority owner of a business. Partner buyouts can be financed on an all debt basis because the partner already has some equity in the…

Shaken Economy Creates Management Buyout Opportunities

December 22, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Management Buyout Opportunities: In a shaky economy a logical strategy for management is to focus on just hanging on to the business you have. For proactive management teams and owners it can be a time to reconfigure the business or ownership in order to realize in greater benefits in the…

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