Typical deal scout commission

February 17, 2025
by a searcher from Columbia University in Miami, FL, USA
Hello all,
So we are working with a few deal scouts that introduce us to potential businesses to buy and are paid purely on commission. Sometimes they send us platform businesses and sometimes, add-ons. Different people propose different commissions. Does anyone know of anything that's standard? Maybe Lehman for platform targets and 1-1.5% for add-ons? When negotiating commissions would like to have something that I can cite as standard.
from Southern Methodist University in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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