Student Seeking Example PPM for Academic Research (ETA Module)

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February 23, 2026

by a searcher from WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Berlin, Deutschland

Hi everyone, I’m currently an M.Sc. Entrepreneurship student in Germany, and in our new module on Entrepreneurship through Acquisition we are required to draft a full Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) as part of the coursework. While I’ve reviewed publicly available resources (e.g., the Stanford Search Fund materials), I would find it incredibly valuable to study a real-world PPM to better understand structure, tone, and level of detail in practice. Would anyone be open to sharing an older version of their PPM — numbers redacted is completely fine — purely for academic purposes? I’m happy to sign an NDA if needed and will of course treat everything strictly confidential. Any guidance or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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from American University in Irvine, CA, USA
Thanks very much ^redacted‌. Hi, ^redacted‌. We draft these types of securities offering documents for clients all of the time. Happy to share a sanitized version of one, if that would be helpful, and/or to talk about what the elements of a traditional PPM are. Please DM me here with your best email address, and also let me know if there is a particular industry segment you are interested in. Ken August
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from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Nashville, TN, USA
https://joesteg.gumroad.com/l/ombqg Its basically the Stanford PPM from years ago with a few flourishes. You'll have to fill it in of course.
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