Loi: Deal Terms Frequency
The Deal Terms Frequency carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 1 to 10 percent, read 12 September 2026.
Exitvo sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
2 of the 12 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
By term
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| termppa-escrow-median | 1% | 1 to 1% | 1 |
| termescrow-non-rwi-median | 10% | 10 to 10% | 1 |
| termescrow-rwi-median | 2.8% | 2.8 to 2.8% | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| DealLawyers: private target deal terms study | 10% | escrow-non-rwi-median | 2026-09-12 |
| DealLawyers: private target deal terms study | 2.8% | escrow-rwi-median | 2026-09-12 |
| SRS Acquiom: M&A deals key trends | 1% | ppa-escrow-median | 2026-09-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (3)
- DealLawyers: private target deal terms study, read 2026-09-12:
For non-RWI deals, the average amount of all escrows was 12.1% of transaction value while the median was 10.0%.
- DealLawyers: private target deal terms study, read 2026-09-12:
For deals with RWI, the average was 5.1% of transaction value and the median was 2.8%.
- SRS Acquiom: M&A deals key trends, read 2026-09-12:
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.
Read in full, publishes no figure
10 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- SRS Acquiom M&A Deal Terms Study, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SRS Acquiom: M&A escrow statistics, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SRS Acquiom: key findings from the 2026 Deal Terms Study, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SRS Acquiom: deal terms analysis, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SEC EDGAR full-text search: letter of intent in 8-K exhibits, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SEC EDGAR full-text search API, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SEC EDGAR full-text search, read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- CT Acquisitions: rep and warranty insurance guide, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- CT Acquisitions: RWI carrier comparison 2024-2026, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Fasken: key takeaways from the SRS Acquiom 2026 study, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
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.
34 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (13)
- SRS Acquiom M&A Deal Terms Study(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SRS Acquiom: M&A escrow statistics(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SRS Acquiom: key findings from the 2026 Deal Terms Study(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SRS Acquiom: M&A deals key trends(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SRS Acquiom: deal terms analysis(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SEC EDGAR full-text search: letter of intent in 8-K exhibits(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SEC EDGAR full-text search API(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SEC EDGAR full-text search(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CT Acquisitions: rep and warranty insurance guide(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CT Acquisitions: RWI carrier comparison 2024-2026(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- DealLawyers: private target deal terms study(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Fasken: key takeaways from the SRS Acquiom 2026 study(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Aon: Q1 2026 global insurance market overview(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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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.
Cite as: "Exitvo Deal Terms Frequency", updated 2026-10-19, https://exitvo.com/datasets/deal-terms-frequency/.
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