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.
Key topics in this year’s study include:
- Trends in valuations and earnouts
- Impact of heightened due diligence on escrow utilization
- Prevalence of walk-away indemnity structures
Kip is a senior director leading the SRS Acquiom thought leadership practice, the mission of which is to share resourceful content built from SRS Acquiom expertise and proprietary data. In addition to facilitating scores of interactive presentations at M&A conferences and law firms, Kip authors a plethora of articles and data studies regularly utilized by the market.
Previously, Kip was a part of 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, he was an attorney with a Denver-based boutique business law firm working on middle-market M&A deals.
Kip holds J.D. and M.S. (Econometrics) degrees and is a member of the Colorado bar.