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Mark Twain once said, “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”. He had a point. Why commit to someone who’s sometimes there and sometimes not? Unfortunately for many business owners, particularly in private equity looking for an exit, this is exactly the position they have found themselves in over the last few years. Too often time and money is spent preparing a company for an exit only to find that the intended exit route – whether it be an initial public offering or sale of the business – is no longer available when the big day arrives. This has got a lot of people asking themselves how best to plan an exit in an age of uncertainty. What is the best approach to take when there is no reliable way of knowing whether a given exit path will even be open in six or more months, never mind whether it will be optimal?

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