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Private Equity M&A Key Deal Terms in a Changing Market
Rollover Equity, Earnouts, Seller Paper, Reverse Break-Up Fees, Rep and Warranty Insurance
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Description
Our panel of experienced private equity M&A practitioners will discuss recent developments in private equity M&A deal terms, including current market provisions and evolving trends.
Counsel advising buyers and sellers in private equity M&A transactions must be knowledgeable about these developments to advise their clients effectively. Counsel should determine the most suitable and tailored deal terms for the transaction documents for their deals.
Listen as our panel of expert M&A practitioners reviews the latest trends in M&A deal terms where a private equity firm, as a buyer or a seller, has significant control or leverage over the transaction process. The panel will discuss best practices for negotiating provisions regarding rollover equity, the growth-through-acquisition strategy, earnouts, debt financing and seller paper, reverse break-up fees, and representation and warranty insurance in private equity M&A deals.
Presented By

Mr. Doyle represents borrowers, financial sponsors, lenders and other capital providers in the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of a wide array of financing matters. His practice includes acquisition financings, syndicated bank loans, direct lending, sustainability linked loans, debt restructurings, lease financings and a host of other commercial investment and lending matters on behalf of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, financial industry clients and other public and private businesses and credit providers. Mr. Doyle's clients span industries and include those with a focus on the banking and financial industry, infrastructure, real estate development, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, software and technology, energy, oil and gas, transportation, logistics, education, franchisors, government contracting, aerospace, industrials and manufacturing, branded consumer products, consumer services and leisure, as well as various sectors within the retail space. He has utilized his experience in the financing world to help clients throughout the duration of a corporate life cycle, from formation and initial investments through to mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and other transformative events.

Mr. Ehrlich is a National Practice Leader, Private Equity, Family Office and M&A at Brown & Brown Specialty Risk Solutions.

Mr. Levor’s practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of transactions, including buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, minority investments, restructurings, joint ventures and other complex strategic transactions and investments. He has experience counseling clients in a wide variety of industries, with particular emphasis on technology, health care, business services, consumer goods, industrials, hospitality and infrastructure.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Date + Time
- event
Friday, January 16, 2026
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
Outline
I. Current trends in private equity M&A deals
II. Best practices for negotiating deal terms: buyer and seller perspectives
A. Rollover equity
B. Growth-through-acquisition strategies
C. Earnouts
D. Debt financing and seller paper
E. Reverse break-up fees
F. Representation and warranty insurance
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What are the most recent developments and trends for practitioners to consider when doing private equity M&A deals?
- What are the deal terms that buyers and sellers in private equity M&A deals are most frequently negotiating, and what are the buyer-favorable and seller-favorable versions of those deal terms?
- What are some best practices for counsel on both sides of the deal when structuring and negotiating private equity M&A deals?
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