Payment Structures & Deal Architecture.
The five canonical payment-structure poles — cash, seller-note, earnout, rollover, deferred — and the hybrid combinations that fit specific deal economics. Plus the seller-financing deep-dive.
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Payment Structures and Deal Architecture for Buyers
How disciplined buyers structure payment terms — vanity vs sanity multiples, capital stack, earnout economics, seller financing, rollover equity, risk allocation.
Economic Foundations
Payment Structure Types
B18All-cash & the clean break — the price of certainty8 minB18As-earned structures — when the whole price is contingent8 minB18Hybrid deal structures — the 2026 default architecture8 minB18Payments over time — the deferred-consideration toolkit8 minB18Rollover equity — alignment, tax deferral, the second bite8 minB18Structuring the earnout — the economics buyers underwrite8 min