Subject category:
Entrepreneurship
Published by:
London Business School
Version: February 2011
Revision date: 23-Nov-2011
Length: 9 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
This is part of a case series. Despite numerous regulatory concerns and uncertainty over the state of the industry, Manish Sabharwal, Ashok Reddy and a third co-founder, Mohit Gupta, decided to enter the temporary staffing industry. In 2002, they founded TeamLease and over the ensuing years, it expanded at an astonishing rate. While Sabharwal and Reddy avoided prosecution, labour laws remained unchanged. In late August of 2005, a global staffing firm approached Sabharwal and Reddy about a possible acquisition. The global company had hired an investment bank and was ready to put a firm offer on the table. The amount being discussed was almost too good to be true. Should they sell?
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Abstract
This is part of a case series. Despite numerous regulatory concerns and uncertainty over the state of the industry, Manish Sabharwal, Ashok Reddy and a third co-founder, Mohit Gupta, decided to enter the temporary staffing industry. In 2002, they founded TeamLease and over the ensuing years, it expanded at an astonishing rate. While Sabharwal and Reddy avoided prosecution, labour laws remained unchanged. In late August of 2005, a global staffing firm approached Sabharwal and Reddy about a possible acquisition. The global company had hired an investment bank and was ready to put a firm offer on the table. The amount being discussed was almost too good to be true. Should they sell?