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What portion of all transactions does the DoneDeals database represent?

April 26, 2017database donedeals portion transactions

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What portion of all transactions does the DoneDeals database represent?

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A. There is no good estimate of total transactions for a given time period because there is no way to account for most private to private deals. Even for sales of public companies it is sometimes difficult to obtain complete transactional data. Some services report announced transactions in their total of businesses sold even though many announced deals never make it to closing. DoneDeals reports on only completed mid-market sized deals (sale price primarily between $1 Million and $1 Billion) and only deals for which we are able to obtain the seller’s financial reports.