"PI Platform Architecture Update: Building the Market, Engineering the Platform Exit"

Evan Atkinson was a contributor for the Private Equity Legal Alliance paper, "PI Platform Architecture Update: Building the Market, Engineering the Platform Exit." The paper serves as a state-of-the-market briefing on how personal injury platforms are being built today—the entry points investors and founders are using, how add-ons are constructed, where leverage comes from as client-acquisition costs climb, and how matter-type portfolio design drives the next bite at the apple.

In the paper, Atkinson highlights that sellers often execute a Letter of Intent (LOI) before retaining counsel, though they will never have more leverage in a transaction than they do before signing. He further suggests that experienced counsel should be involved at the LOI stage to help ensure that key legal and economic protections are worked into the deal from the start.