Buy to sell

A fund’s model of acquiring a business, improving it over a defined holding period and selling it. The holding period is finite by design.

Buy to sell at Hanil Widget Works

A fund buying Hanil at an enterprise value of 39.84m would already be planning who buys it next and at what multiple, years before this deal even closes.

The ownership window, planned end to end
BuyEntry
SellExit

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