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Finders Fee Agreement

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What you'll need

  • Deal Parameters Summary
  • Compensation Term Sheet

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Overview

CaseMark's Finder's Fee Agreement skill drafts comprehensive introducer agreements that compensate finders for sourcing business opportunities while carefully constraining their activities to avoid broker-dealer registration, agency, or fiduciary status. The AI produces production-ready agreements covering compensation mechanics, tail periods, exclusivity matrices, and regulatory compliance gates for securities, anti-corruption, and licensing requirements.

Drafting Finder's Fee Agreements requires balancing commercial flexibility with significant regulatory risk. Attorneys must carefully limit the finder's scope to avoid triggering broker-dealer registration requirements while structuring compensation mechanics, tail periods, and exclusivity terms that satisfy both parties. Manually drafting these agreements from scratch or adapting outdated templates is time-consuming and error-prone, particularly when navigating securities law, anti-corruption, and licensing compliance across multiple deal contexts.

CaseMark's AI analyzes your deal parameters, party information, and compensation terms to generate a complete Finder's Fee Agreement with built-in regulatory safeguards. The output includes precisely scoped service limitations, multi-tier compensation mechanics, configurable tail periods, and compliance representations—all structured to minimize broker-dealer and agency risk while giving you full control to customize every provision before finalizing.

How it works

  1. 1. Provide deal parameters, party details, and compensation structure

  2. 2. AI drafts a complete Finder's Fee Agreement with broker-dealer safeguards

  3. 3. Review and customize compensation tiers, tail periods, and exclusivity terms

  4. 4. Export the finalized agreement in your preferred format (DOCX, PDF)

What you get

  • Definitions and Interpretive Provisions

  • Parties and Recitals

  • Services and Scope Limitations

  • Compensation Mechanics and Payment Terms

  • Tail Period and Exclusivity Matrix

  • Regulatory Compliance and Representations

  • Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure

  • Term, Termination, and Survival

  • Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

  • General Provisions and Signature Blocks

What it handles

  • Structured definitions and party identification with jurisdiction-specific recitals

  • Scope-of-services drafting with explicit broker-dealer and agency exclusions

  • Multi-tier compensation mechanics with caps, earnouts, and payment triggers

  • Tail period and exclusivity matrix configuration

  • Regulatory compliance gates for securities, anti-corruption, and licensing

  • Confidentiality, dispute resolution, and termination provisions

Required documents

  • Deal Parameters Summary

    Document outlining the parties, opportunity scope, target type, industry, geography, deal size parameters, and any exclusions

    .pdf, .docx, .txt

  • Compensation Term Sheet

    Summary of the proposed fee structure including percentages, tiers, caps, payment timing, and any earnout or milestone provisions

    .pdf, .docx, .txt

Supporting documents

  • Existing NDA or Confidentiality Agreement

    Any existing confidentiality agreement between the parties to align non-disclosure terms

    .pdf, .docx

  • Regulatory Compliance Memo

    Internal memo or analysis regarding the finder's licensing status, securities law considerations, or anti-corruption compliance requirements

    .pdf, .docx

  • Prior Finder Agreements

    Previous finder or introducer agreements used by the organization for reference on preferred terms and language

    .pdf, .docx

Why teams use it

Eliminate hours of manual drafting with AI-generated agreements that include all essential provisions from definitions through signature blocks

Reduce regulatory risk with built-in broker-dealer, agency, and fiduciary status safeguards drafted into every agreement

Customize complex compensation structures including tiered fees, earnouts, caps, and milestone triggers without starting from scratch

Ensure consistency across your finder engagements with standardized language for confidentiality, dispute resolution, and termination rights

Questions

How does CaseMark ensure the agreement avoids broker-dealer registration issues?

CaseMark's AI explicitly drafts scope-of-services limitations that exclude negotiation, structuring, valuation, advice, and solicitation—the activities that typically trigger broker-dealer registration requirements. The agreement confines the finder's role to introductions and basic background information, with clear representations about licensing status.

Can I customize the compensation structure for complex deal scenarios?

Absolutely. CaseMark supports percentage-based fees, flat fees, tiered structures, caps, earnouts, and milestone-based payment triggers. You can specify the transaction value base, payment timing, and any conditions precedent to fee eligibility.

Does the agreement include tail period provisions?

Yes. CaseMark generates configurable tail period provisions that define the post-termination window during which the finder remains eligible for fees on previously introduced opportunities. You can set the duration, qualifying conditions, and any fee adjustments during the tail period.

Is this suitable for both M&A and capital-raising contexts?

Yes. CaseMark drafts Finder's Fee Agreements for corporate development, M&A sourcing, capital raising, and general business introduction scenarios. The regulatory compliance sections adapt based on whether the underlying transactions involve securities or non-securities opportunities.

How does CaseMark handle exclusivity and territorial restrictions?

The AI generates an exclusivity matrix that lets you define whether the engagement is exclusive or non-exclusive, specify geographic and industry scope, and set carve-outs for existing relationships or specific targets. This gives both parties clarity on the finder's operating boundaries.

Can I use this for international finder arrangements?

CaseMark drafts agreements governed by U.S. law with provisions for cross-border introductions. While the core framework addresses U.S. regulatory requirements, you can customize governing law, venue, and add representations regarding foreign anti-corruption compliance such as FCPA considerations.

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