{ "name": "Exitvo Deal Terms Frequency", "title": "Deal Terms Frequency", "url": "https://exitvo.com/datasets/deal-terms-frequency/", "csv": "https://exitvo.com/datasets/deal-terms-frequency.csv", "markdown": "https://exitvo.com/datasets/deal-terms-frequency/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-19", "license": "https://exitvo.com/terms", "headline": "The Deal Terms Frequency carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 1 to 10 percent, read 12 September 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Deal Terms Frequency carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 1 to 10 percent, read 12 September 2026.", "2 of the 12 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 12 September 2026.", "Deal Terms Frequency, term ppa-escrow-median: median 1 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.", "Deal Terms Frequency, term escrow-non-rwi-median: median 10 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.", "Deal Terms Frequency, term escrow-rwi-median: median 2.80 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026." ], "citation": "\"Exitvo Deal Terms Frequency\", updated 2026-10-19, https://exitvo.com/datasets/deal-terms-frequency/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 3, "median": 2.8, "min": 1, "max": 10, "p25": 1, "p75": 10, "mean": 4.6, "units": { "%": 3 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 13, "read_sources": 12, "not_published": 10, "published_share": 0.167 }, "by_axis": { "term": { "ppa-escrow-median": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 1, "min": 1, "max": 1, "p25": 1, "p75": 1, "mean": 1 } }, "escrow-non-rwi-median": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 10, "min": 10, "max": 10, "p25": 10, "p75": 10, "mean": 10 } }, "escrow-rwi-median": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 2.8, "min": 2.8, "max": 2.8, "p25": 2.8, "p75": 2.8, "mean": 2.8 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "SRS Acquiom: M&A deals key trends", "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/ma-deals/", "figure": "1%", "value": 1, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "term": "ppa-escrow-median" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "The study also found that the median size of a separate PPA escrow remained at about 1% of the transaction value for the last two years.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "68f2600bc34c984ce3aa5ba9cf0c2c0117ce18d00be71d69afde3419e2ac6ea5" }, { "source": "DealLawyers: private target deal terms study", "url": "https://www.deallawyers.com/blog/2026/04/study-private-target-deal-terms-10.html", "figure": "10.0%", "value": 10, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "term": "escrow-non-rwi-median" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "For non-RWI deals, the average amount of all escrows was 12.1% of transaction value while the median was 10.0%.", "source_class": "secondary", "text_sha256": "fa2f1b46c51ecd7b6bb8191c105ec749c1ad1023f9bcc981c16067ce6952126f" }, { "source": "DealLawyers: private target deal terms study", "url": "https://www.deallawyers.com/blog/2026/04/study-private-target-deal-terms-10.html", "figure": "2.8%", "value": 2.8, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "term": "escrow-rwi-median" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "For deals with RWI, the average was 5.1% of transaction value and the median was 2.8%.", "source_class": "secondary", "text_sha256": "fa2f1b46c51ecd7b6bb8191c105ec749c1ad1023f9bcc981c16067ce6952126f" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "SRS Acquiom M&A Deal Terms Study", "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/deal-terms-study/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "SRS Acquiom: M&A escrow statistics", "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/ma-escrows-statistics/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "SRS Acquiom: key findings from the 2026 Deal Terms Study", "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/deal-terms-study-key-findings/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "SRS Acquiom: deal terms analysis", "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/deal-terms-analysis/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "SEC EDGAR full-text search: letter of intent in 8-K exhibits", "url": "https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22letter+of+intent%22&forms=8-K", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "SEC EDGAR full-text search API", "url": "https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=test", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "SEC EDGAR full-text search", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "CT Acquisitions: rep and warranty insurance guide", "url": "https://ctacquisitions.com/rep-and-warranty-insurance/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "CT Acquisitions: RWI carrier comparison 2024-2026", "url": "https://ctacquisitions.com/guides/rw-insurance-carrier-comparison-2024-2026/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Fasken: key takeaways from the SRS Acquiom 2026 study", "url": "https://www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2026/05/private-ma-deal-trends-to-watch-key-takeaways-from-srs-acquioms-2026-study", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/deal-terms-study/", "label": "SRS Acquiom M&A Deal Terms Study", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/ma-escrows-statistics/", "label": "SRS Acquiom: M&A escrow statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/deal-terms-study-key-findings/", "label": "SRS Acquiom: key findings from the 2026 Deal Terms Study", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/ma-deals/", "label": "SRS Acquiom: M&A deals key trends", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.srsacquiom.com/our-insights/deal-terms-analysis/", "label": "SRS Acquiom: deal terms analysis", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22letter+of+intent%22&forms=8-K", "label": "SEC EDGAR full-text search: letter of intent in 8-K exhibits", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=test", "label": "SEC EDGAR full-text search API", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/", "label": "SEC EDGAR full-text search", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://ctacquisitions.com/rep-and-warranty-insurance/", "label": "CT Acquisitions: rep and warranty insurance guide", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://ctacquisitions.com/guides/rw-insurance-carrier-comparison-2024-2026/", "label": "CT Acquisitions: RWI carrier comparison 2024-2026", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.deallawyers.com/blog/2026/04/study-private-target-deal-terms-10.html", "label": "DealLawyers: private target deal terms study", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2026/05/private-ma-deal-trends-to-watch-key-takeaways-from-srs-acquioms-2026-study", "label": "Fasken: key takeaways from the SRS Acquiom 2026 study", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.aon.com/en/insights/reports/global-insurance-market-insights/q1-2026-overview", "label": "Aon: Q1 2026 global insurance market overview", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 12 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 10 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 3 figures, never sentences; 34 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the FREQUENCY and central value of each deal term, counted across every study and filed-exhibit corpus that reports one: the share of private-target deals carrying an earnout and its size, the share with an escrow and the median escrow as a percentage of consideration (split RWI and non-RWI), the share with a seller note, the exclusivity period length, the RWI attachment point and rate on line. Read from the studies AND counted independently from SEC EDGAR's filed purchase-agreement exhibits, so a term's published frequency can be checked against the documents themselves - which no study does, because each counts only its own deal flow.", "embed": "

1 to 10 percent

3 published figures, Deal Terms Frequency, across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026

Source: Exitvo Deal Terms Frequency
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