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# Growth in Employee Ownership Trusts as a preferred exit route for business owners

24 April, 2019

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The latest edition of UK Private Company Director highlights private deal making held up well in the first quarter and it appears we are off to a solid start. We saw an acceleration in the lower value segments of the market offsetting lower activity at the higher value end.

Our guest contributor, employee ownership advisers, RM2 Partnership, believe this could be a breakthrough year for Employee Ownership Trusts, which confer important tax benefits both to shareholders who are selling and their employees.

Click [**here** ](https://www.corbettkeeling.com/hubfs/UK%20Private%20Company%20Director%20Q1%202019.pdf) to read more

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