Acquiring For Cash
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Overview: With IPOs out of the question, some venture capital-backed companies are buying entities for their liquid assets. Buying a company for its cash rather than its business may seem avaricious, but experts say the merger-and-acquisition technique is being used increasingly in the current downturn to gain liquidity at relatively little cost. Venture capitalists themselves often are willing to go along with the approach — if the alternative is letting stagnant investments die on the vine. Read the article to know the benefits of the same.
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Format: HTML | Date: Nov 2002 | Pages: 3
