What are some things that an entrepreneur should know about what they're signing and signing up for when they hire an investment banker?

Yeah, absolutely.

So, I mean, let's take it from a perspective of, you know, engagement with you, but we do enough work in this area where we're obviously not representing clients vis-a-vis engagement with you, but we represent clients vis-a-vis engagement with other investment bankers, right? So I think for both parties, it's really relevant identifying what services are being provided, right? Are you doing a full-blown auction process or you're not, right? Have you pre-identified buyers Are you doing a SIM? Are you not doing a SIM? Right? You know, so really identifying both for your benefit and for your client's benefit, what services you're providing, what services you're not providing, what they're providing, et cetera.

You know, another thing that we spend a lot of time on, both representing you and representing our clients, these investment bankers, is, you know, the economics, right? And that's largely a business decision, but it's you know, necessary for us to clearly outline them, right? So, you know, identifying whether there's, you know, fee offsets, identifying the success fee, you know, identifying, you know, different tiers for transactions and stuff like that.

And then the third thing that I think is, you know, again, the most important part from your perspective, also the most important part from a client's perspective is that tail.

Right? The term and the tail, right? How long is this engagement? How does this engagement, you know, and run its course if it's not successful? And what does the tail look like, right? You know, and what does the tail encompass, right? You know, everybody that's been talked to, people that sign NDAs, et cetera, et cetera.

So those are kind of the three highlights, and it doesn't differ.

I have a feeling you're going to tell me that that is true on paper and less so on practice, but rather than putting words in your mouth, talk about that sector and what's going on these days.