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Indemnification Cap and Basket: What's Market?
Check an APA indemnification cap and basket against ABA 2025 and SRS 2026 benchmarks: medians, basket types, and tipping vs deductible examples.
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FDD Item 7 Investment Benchmark
55 franchise FDDs, total investment $92,640 to $7,960,300
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Read the benchmark →DatasetAPA Indemnity Risk Map
9 indemnification terms benchmarked to the 2025 ABA Private Target Study
Read the benchmark →DatasetCommercial Lease Red Flags
91 ABA Model Lease clauses, each with red flag, landlord trap, and fix
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SBA SOP 50 10 8 seller-note treatment across every acquisition scenario
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Check an APA indemnification cap and basket against ABA 2025 and SRS 2026 benchmarks: medians, basket types, and tipping vs deductible examples.
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What a quality of earnings report catches before you buy a business, what it costs, and how it works beside legal diligence.
APA Indemnification Clause: Buyer Red Flags
How SMB acquisition buyers review APA indemnification clauses: cap, basket, survival, escrow, exclusions, seller credit, fraud carve-outs, and claim procedure.
SBA Seller-Note Standby Rules: Every Buyer Scenario
How SBA SOP 50 10 8 treats a seller note across every acquisition scenario, when it counts as equity, what changed June 1 2025, and the interest rule most blogs get wrong.
SBA Seller Note Standby Checklist for Buyers
SBA SOP 50 10 8 seller-note rules: when a seller note goes on full standby vs partial standby, and how to check it against your APA, note, and subordination.
How Common Are Earnouts, and How Should They Be Structured? (2025 Data)
What a market-standard earnout looks like in an SMB acquisition, using 2025 SRS Acquiom data. How often earnouts appear, typical size and length, offset rights, and the protections a searcher should insist on.
How Long Should Indemnification Survival Last? (2025 Data)
What a market-standard survival period looks like in an SMB acquisition, using 2025 ABA and SRS Acquiom data. Why 12 months is the median, when no-survival deals happen, and what a searcher should push for.
What Is a Market-Standard Indemnification Cap? (2025 Data)
What a market-standard indemnification cap looks like in an SMB acquisition, using the 2025 ABA and SRS Acquiom deal-terms data. Median caps, how rep and warranty insurance changes the number, and what a searcher should push for.
12 Acquisition Contract Clauses SMB Buyers Must Check
The 12 APA and deal-document clauses that can change price, closing certainty, and post-close recovery in an SMB acquisition.
Reading an Asset Purchase Agreement: A Searcher's Checklist
Review the APA clauses that move price, recovery, and closing risk: working capital, seller notes, indemnity, disclosure schedules, consents, and non-competes.
Retained Employee Agreements After an SMB Acquisition
What SMB buyers should align in retained employee agreements: role, compensation, incentives, IP, restrictions, and exit terms.
SBA Loan Requirements for Contract Due Diligence
What SBA 7(a) lenders look for during contract due diligence on SMB acquisitions. Customer concentration, lease assignment, key employee retention, and the diligence items that decide whether the loan funds.