Buy, Grow, Exit: The Ultimate Guide to Using Business as a Wealth-Creation

Buy, Grow, Exit is the definitive guide for business owners, and their advisors, in driving highly successful deals in acquisitions and exits, and in protecting and enhancing the value of the business between acquisition and exit by building a legal fortress around the core assets. Written by a lawyer with more than two decades of experience working with hundreds of businesses at acquisition and exit, and two leading podcasts in this area - The Deal Room Podcast and Talking Law - Joanna Oakey provides a rarely examined approach to understanding why many businesses fail to achieve anywhere near their potential, and why others achieve incredible success for their owners when they crystalise their business into wealth at Exit. This book provides the pathway to how to use a business as the ultimate wealth-creation vehicle, by understanding the mechanics of deal-making, and the interaction of the three critical phases of acquisition, growth and exit. Covering critical topics including: - the truth behind why businesses really fail - how deal-making can drive business value - the secret sauce of growth through acquisition - how to drive a deal for success - the imperative legal steps to protecting a growing business (and your own wealth) - critical preparation for maximising value at exit - exiting with class, not regret Reading this book will change the way you view your business, and your deals.