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Mark your calendars: the 2025 SRS Acquiom M&A Deal Terms Study will be released on April 22.
The 2025 M&A Deal Terms Study analyzes 2,200+ private-target acquisitions that closed between 2019 and 2024 where SRS Acquiom provided services, valued at $505 billion. Most of these M&A deals are not publicly reported. The study contains insights not found anywhere else about earnouts, purchase price adjustments (PPAs), escrows, indemnification, and more.
This study provides the most up-to-date private-target deal terms trends to give you an edge on your next deal. Stay in the know with such topics as:
- Trends in valuations and earnouts
- Impact of heightened due diligence on escrows utilization
- Prevalence of walk-away indemnity structures
If you are looking for the 2024 M&A Deal Terms Study, you can find it here.
Kip Wallen
Senior Director, Thought Leadership tel:720-452-5364
Kip Wallen is a senior director leading the SRS Acquiom thought leadership practice. He leverages his extensive expertise and SRS Acquiom proprietary data to produce resourceful content regularly utilized by market practitioners. Kip has broad experience in M&A and provides guidance on market standards and trends.
Previously, Kip was a Director with the SRS Acquiom Transactional Group, where he collaborated with clients and counsel to negotiate M&A documents including purchase, escrow, payments, and other transactional agreements. Before joining SRS Acquiom, Kip was an attorney with a Denver-based boutique business law firm where he assisted clients with M&A transactions as well as general corporate governance and securities matters.
Kip is an avid supporter of the Colorado Symphony, serving as Treasurer and Trustee. He is an active participant on the American Bar Association’s M&A Committee. In 2016, Kip completed Leadership 20 with the Denver chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.
Kip received his J.D. from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver and an M.S. in Economics, B.S. in Economics and B.A. in International Relations from Lehigh University. He is a member of the Colorado bar.