To help you prepare for the year ahead, our team reviewed more than 280 private-target deals that closed between Q1-Q3 2025. Augmenting insights from the 2025 SRS Acquiom M&A Deal Terms Study, this quick read spotlights trends to watch as we enter 2026. Find answers to questions such as:
- How prevalent are earnouts?
- Are jumbo deals (more than $750 million in transaction value) back?
- What is the mix of deal consideration?
- What is the latest with survival periods?
- How is increasingly thorough due diligence affecting post-closing
indemnifications?
See the latest trends related to deal sizes, consideration mix, contingent consideration, and more.
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.