Customer Concentration Clause
How customer concentration allocates risk, which wording controls, and what to verify in the signed agreement.
- How are customers, affiliates, and revenue periods defined?
- Which losses, renewals, consents, or changes trigger a consequence?
- How do diligence evidence, price adjustments, earnouts, and indemnity protections interact?
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Analyze My ContractSchedule 4.18 identifies each Material Customer, the revenue attributed to that customer for the stated periods, the governing contracts, renewal dates, termination rights, disputes, notices, and any known intent to reduce or discontinue business.
What this clause actually does
A customer-concentration provision addresses revenue dependence on identified customers or thresholds, often through representations, disclosure schedules, covenants, or closing conditions. There is no universal SBA percentage that makes concentration acceptable or unacceptable. Review the measurement period, customer grouping, churn and renewal data, contract assignability, lender analysis, and the remedy if a named customer leaves before closing.
Why people get burned by this clause
Customer concentration can change economics, timing, control, or remedies. Its effect turns on the signed wording, related sections, transaction facts, and applicable law; a market label or isolated sentence does not settle the result.
What should make you slow down
- The document does not clearly answer: How are customers, affiliates, and revenue periods defined?
- The document does not clearly answer: Which losses, renewals, consents, or changes trigger a consequence?
- The document does not clearly answer: How do diligence evidence, price adjustments, earnouts, and indemnity protections interact?
Where you usually see it
- Asset purchase agreements
- Stock and membership-interest purchase agreements
- Disclosure schedules and material-contract schedules
- Quality-of-earnings and lender diligence materials
- Customer contracts, renewals, notices, and account records
What the platform checks in the live contract
- How are customers, affiliates, and revenue periods defined?
- Which losses, renewals, consents, or changes trigger a consequence?
- How do diligence evidence, price adjustments, earnouts, and indemnity protections interact?
What to test against your deal
- Confirm in the document: How are customers, affiliates, and revenue periods defined?
- Confirm in the document: Which losses, renewals, consents, or changes trigger a consequence?
- Confirm in the document: How do diligence evidence, price adjustments, earnouts, and indemnity protections interact?
Glossary entry: Customer Concentration Clause
What it is
A customer-concentration provision addresses revenue dependence on identified customers or thresholds, often through representations, disclosure schedules, covenants, or closing conditions. There is no universal SBA percentage that makes concentration acceptable or unacceptable.
Why it matters in your deal
For self-funded buyers, commercial tenants, and franchise candidates, the effect of customer concentration clause depends on the signed wording, related sections, governing law, and transaction facts. Risk level: High. Concentration can affect valuation, debt service, and closing certainty.
What to do
- Locate the operative customer concentration clause wording, its definitions, and its document cross-references.
- Record the parties, triggers, exceptions, deadlines, and consequences stated for customer concentration clause, then verify any legal conclusion for the governing jurisdiction.
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Common questions about this clause
The signed wording, definitions, exceptions, related provisions, governing law, and the transaction facts. Review the clause in that full context rather than relying on a general benchmark.
How are customers, affiliates, and revenue periods defined? Which losses, renewals, consents, or changes trigger a consequence? How do diligence evidence, price adjustments, earnouts, and indemnity protections interact?
Treat customer concentration as a document-specific allocation of risk. Identify the trigger, scope, exceptions, procedure, and consequence, then verify consequential legal conclusions for the governing jurisdiction.
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