Foundational Issues of Revenue Participation Financing

Unlike a traditional risk capital equity investment, the investors in a Revenue Participation financing do not thereby become equity stakeholders in the business they financed. Nor does the investors become creditors in the traditional sense: that is, there is no promise by the business to “pay back” the investors except to the extent the business achieves gross revenues sufficient to fund the revenue participation promise.
 
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