Home Services Disclosure Schedules: An Independent Sponsor's Counsel
Securities and M&A counsel for independent sponsors preparing home services transactions, from LOI to close to the capital markets that open up afterward.
The economics on a home services platform deal usually hinge on a handful of structural decisions. Disclosure Schedules is one of them.
The typical home services platform sits at $8M to $80M EV with EBITDA in the $2M to $15M range. The thesis runs on regional roll-ups of HVAC, plumbing, and electrical operators. The cleanest home services deals close in 60 days from LOI. The mess is almost always in the licenses, not the financials.
How Disclosure Schedules actually gets structured.
Coordinate disclosure schedule preparation with the seller's diligence file, not against it.
Specifically disclose against specific reps, with cross-reference indexing.
Use the schedules to surface known issues, not to hide them.
Update schedules at signing and again at closing where allowed.
In home services, layer in working capital peg that survives a slow February as part of the Disclosure Schedules workstream.
Treating disclosure as a dump. The schedules carry the same legal weight as the reps; they need the same precision.
"Disclosure schedules are the most underrated document in M&A. They protect both sides when done right."Jason Powell · Disclosure Schedules
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
Capital after close is where the IRR actually gets made. The right introductions at month nine through month thirty are where this practice works as hard as it does at the LOI.
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Independent sponsor counsel that already speaks fluent deal-by-deal economics, structures clean LPAs, and travels with capital markets relationships for what comes after close.