Salmon Deal Desk | Fee Prescription Engine

SALMON DEAL DESK

FEE PRESCRIPTION ENGINE · The Salmon Index™

Deal Inputs

Mandate

Company Status

Valuation Input

Enterprise Value ($ millions)

Earnout, Expected Value ($M)

Seller Rollover ($M)

Both are added to the fee base as Transaction Value components.

Engagement Type

Seller Profile (Internal Only)

Adjusts work fee, creditability, and letter mechanics. Never appears in client-facing language.

Buyer Profile (Internal Only)

Adjusts retainer prescription and economics weighting. Never appears in client-facing language.

Process Dynamics

Timeline (months)

Expense Cap ($)

Deal Mechanics

Buyer Financing Secured Assumed Debt in Structure

Accelerator (Outperformance Tier) Enable accelerator above target value

Target Value ($M)

Accelerator Rate (+%)

Roughly 1 in 5 advisory firms include outperformance accelerators (Axial survey data). Strong alignment story.

Negotiation Mode: Custom Terms

Enable custom terms (override prescription)

Retainer ($/mo)

Retainer Credit (%)

Minimum Fee Floor ($)

Fee Adjustment (bps of TV)

Relaunch Premium (bps)

Client / Company Names (for letter)

Saved Deals

Snapshots persist in this browser. Share links encode the full deal in the URL and reopen it exactly, for anyone behind the gate.

Output

PRIVATE TARGET · EXEMPTION PATH

LOWER MIDDLE MARKET

Fee Base (Transaction Value)

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Monthly Retainer

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Total Retainer

–

Retainer Credit

–

Minimum Fee Floor

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Tail Provision

–

All-In Estimate

–

Deal Inputs

Output

Outcome Scenarios

Risk Flags

Market Basis