After a quarter of a century, Datalex announced this week its plans to delist from the Irish stock market.  Taking the business private is the right strategy, but the timing, corporate governance and transparency around how this happens deserves scrutiny.  Datalex’s market capitalisation is under €50 million, but it has the potential to be worth much more. Private equity has already spotted the potential of Datalex, and it has circled the North Dublin-based company multiple times.  The company is right not to entertain speculative tyre-kickers just as it is getting more and more things right.  Datalex’s trajectory, led by its…

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