Management Buy-out

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Contribution AgreementThe agreement between one investor, the trustee and the investment manager that sets the terms on which that investor participates in the AIF — the contract that turns a commitment into units.
• Determinate trustA trust whose beneficiaries and their beneficial interests are ascertainable from the trust deed throughout its life — the structure that lets a Category III AIF avoid MMR on non-business income.
• FATFThe intergovernmental body founded in 1989 that writes the global AML/CFT standards — the 40 Recommendations plus IX Special Recommendations — and grey-lists or black-lists countries that fail them.
• Liberalised Remittance SchemeThe RBI facility letting a resident individual remit up to USD 250,000 per financial year abroad for any permissible current or capital account transaction, including investment in offshore funds.
• SettlorThe party who brings an AIF trust into existence — executing the trust deed with the trustee and conveying the initial sum that becomes the trust's first asset.