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# Do you need a plan for a business exit?

15 December, 2021

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Our Chairman and CEO, Jim Keeling, explains the importance of planning a strategy for the sale of your business in a recent interview with Arbuthnot Latham. Jim shares Corbett Keeling's 3Cs for a successful sale: Cash, Certainty and Chemistry.

Click [here](https://www.arbuthnotlatham.co.uk/insights/do-you-need-plan-business-exit?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=EntrepreneursThreeCs_09122021) to read the full article.

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