Management Fees, Dividend Recaps, and Where Buyout Cash Comes From
The leveraged buyer's toolkit explained without heat: monitoring fees, recap debt, sale-leasebacks, who carries the risk, and the questions worth asking.
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Who Actually Buys MSPs? A Field Guide to the Buyer Universe
Platforms, tuck-in strategics, search funds, SBA-backed individuals, and hold-forever operators: each buyer's incentives, clocks, and what they optimize for.
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When Shutting Down Is on the Table
For owners with no exit plan, a quiet wind-down feels simplest. The real cost in walked-away value, what happens to staff and clients, and the alternative.
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The Roll-Up Playbook: What the Model Needs From Your Business
How platform-and-tuck-in MSP consolidation works, the operational signature that follows the math, and the questions that reveal where any buyer sits.
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How a Leveraged Buyout Works When the Company Is Yours
The mechanics of an LBO in plain terms: who borrows what, how your company services the debt after close, and the questions that reveal any buyer's math.
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Every Owner Exits Eventually: The Four Paths Out of an MSP
Strategic sale, private equity, ESOP, or wind-down. The honest tradeoffs of each exit path, and how to tell which one is genuinely right for your MSP.
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