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Advantages of an employee buy-out over a trade sale
Employee ownership has proved itself a successful UK business model for decades. The introduction of employee ownership trusts in the Finance Act 2014 has raised interest in employee ownership as a business succession solution. This blog summarises the advantages of an employee buy-out ("EBO") over a trade sale or a management buy-out ("MBO").
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Nuttall Review of Employee Ownership - a guide to source materials including the employee ownership tax exemptions introduced in the Finance Act 2014
This article was originally published on 9 February 2014 and contains links to the main documents related to the Nuttall Review of Employee Ownership. It has been updated to include links to statutory
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Death, taxes and everything - employee ownership in 2014
The employee ownership sector should look again at possible changes in non-tax regulations that will help EO and let the Government know of any ideas by 19 February 2014Employee ownership (“EO”)
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Back to school companies
What can the Education Act 2002 school company teach us about tool-kits for employee ownership, and structuring ownership and governance generally?Existing legislation gave a maintained school limited
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4 July 2013 is Employee Ownership Day
“The Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday...”but as the day the UK decided “to raise awareness of the Employee Ownership sector at both national and local level across the UK
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Robert Oakeshott Memorial Lecture 2013 - a timely call to promote employee ownership from the Deputy Prime Minister
The inaugural Robert Oakeshott Memorial Lecture was given on 27 March 2013 by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at The Law Society, London. He took the opportunity to outline the progress the
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Making it mutual - The ownership revolution that Britain needs
Making it mutual is a timely and thought provoking collection of 40 concise essays on mutual (including employee ownership) business models. As I said at the launch event in the House of Commons,
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Government takes action to boost employee owned businesses
An action plan to knock down the barriers preventing more British businesses from becoming employee-owned was announced today by the Minister for Employment Relations, Jo Swinson at the London Stock