employee buyout
Staff purchases company
An employee buyout is a transaction in which workers purchase all or part of the company they work for, typically through an employee stock ownership plan or direct acquisition.
Buyouts may occur when owners retire, when a company faces closure, or as a strategy to improve worker motivation through ownership stakes: The factory avoided shutdown through an employee buyout.
- leveragedEmployed for advantage
- debt financingRaising capital through borrowing
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- ESOPWorker ownership program
- stock optionsContracts to purchase shares
ownership · workers · majority stake · takeover · shares · stock · management · company · equity · sweat equity · skin in the game · pension · retirement · stake · collective · cooperative · transition · founders
- M&Amerger, acquisition, takeover, hostile takeover, consolidation
- corporate dealsmerger, acquisition, takeover, divestiture, spin-off
- exit strategiesIPO, acquisition, merger, liquidation, selling out
- family businessfamily business, family enterprise, family ownership, succession plan, succession planning
- takeovershostile takeover, hostile bid, tender offer, takeover bid, corporate raider
employee buyoutmass layoff
Large-scale employee termination
workforce reduction · employee termination · downsizing · plant closure · corporate downsizing
employee, employees, employ, employs, employed, employing, employer, employers, employment