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Article: All systems go: how can you ensure that your business obtains the best price for its technology assets during a takeover of flotation? Paul Bentham offers his guide to getting the most from an IT sell-off. (Technology Sell-Offs).
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- Financial Management (UK)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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IT systems are the essential tools that allow any sizeable modern company to trade. A business's ability to realise the full value of these technology assets when it is sold or floated depends significantly on how easy they are to transfer. Adopting best practice will help to maximise their value and avoid future transferability problems.
Although there are many reasons why a company may wish to transfer its technology assets, in situations of group ownership the main factors can generally be put into two categories: intra-group transfers and extra-group transfers. The former may be relevant when the business is reorganising its assets or when it is setting up an ...