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Volume 30, Issue 2
1 February 1992
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Research Article| February 01 1992

Magnet plc: The Test‐case? Available to Purchase

Michael Pogue
Michael Pogue
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6070
Print ISSN: 0025-1747
© MCB UP Limited
1992
Management Decision (1992) 30 (2)
https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749210011205

Reports on an attempt to launch an unprecedented management buyout,which was seen to have important repercussions for the whole of the£12 billion British buyout industry, and to represent a“test case” regarding the viability and suitability of American‐style leverage deals in Britain. Describes the problems that arose as Magnet plc′s debt increased and its ability to service its interest obligations was undermined.

Keywords:
Management buy‐outs, Debt, Financing
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