5% Marketplace Success Fee
Unless a separate written engagement agreement applies, a success fee equal to 5% of the Total Transaction Value is payable where a transaction is completed with a party introduced through the Aliant Advisory Marketplace.| Effective date | 5 August 2026 |
| Website | https://aliantadvisory.com |
| Marketplace operator | ALIANT ADVISORY LTD, reg. no. HE492952 |
| Registered address | 17, 25th Martiou Street, P.C. 1087 Nicosia, Cyprus |
Agreement and acceptance
This Marketplace Agreement (the “Agreement”) governs access to and use of the Aliant Advisory Marketplace, including the submission, review, publication and circulation of opportunities and the facilitation of introductions. It forms a legally binding agreement between the Marketplace Operator identified above (“Aliant Cyprus”, “we”, “us” or “our”) and the person accepting it, both personally and, where applicable, on behalf of the organisation identified in the onboarding form (“User”, “you” or “your”).
By ticking the acceptance boxes, typing “I ACCEPT”, submitting an opportunity, requesting an introduction, or otherwise using the Marketplace, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to this Agreement. If you act for an organisation, you warrant that you have authority to bind it.
1. Definitions
In this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings below.
| Term | Meaning |
| Introduced Party | Any person or entity first identified, referred, connected or made known to you by or through Aliant Cyprus, the Marketplace, an Aliant affiliate, representative, adviser or network participant, whether by email, telephone, meeting, data room, listing, message or otherwise. |
| Introduction | Any direct or indirect communication, disclosure or facilitation that enables you to identify, contact, evaluate or transact with an Introduced Party or an opportunity connected to that party. |
| Opportunity | Any business sale, acquisition, investment, capital raise, financing, real estate transaction, project, joint venture, licence, franchise, distribution, strategic partnership or other commercial opportunity submitted to or circulated through the Marketplace. |
| Transaction | Any agreement, arrangement or series of related arrangements involving an Introduced Party, including a share or asset sale, investment, subscription, loan, financing, refinancing, joint venture, partnership, property transaction, licence, franchise, distribution agreement or other transfer of value or commercial rights. |
| Total Transaction Value | The total gross value, consideration or economic benefit paid, payable, committed, assumed or provided in connection with a Transaction, including cash, shares, securities, earn-outs, deferred or contingent payments, assumed debt, shareholder loans, retained interests, property, fees, premiums and other non-cash consideration, valued reasonably at fair market value. |
| Related Party | Any affiliate, subsidiary, parent, shareholder, director, officer, partner, fund, co-investor, nominee, adviser, special-purpose vehicle, family member, trust or other person acting directly or indirectly with or for a party. |
2. Eligibility and authority
You may use the Marketplace only if you are a physical person of at least 18 years old and the legal capacity to contract, or if you are an authorised representative of a legal entity acting for legitimate business or investment purposes, and are not prohibited from doing so under applicable law. The Marketplace is intended for suitably experienced business owners, corporate buyers, family offices, professional or sophisticated investors, lenders, advisers and other qualified counterparties.
You must provide accurate identification, contact, corporate ownership and authority information when requested and promptly notify us of any material change. No further information will be provided and this Agreement will be held void, should you be notified that you have failed to clear the initial checks of Aliant Cyprus.
3. Nature of the Marketplace
Aliant Cyprus operates a private introductions and opportunity-presentation platform. Aliant Cyprus is not providing or intends to provide any investment advise through this Marketplace. Unless separately agreed in writing, Aliant Cyprus acts only as an introducer and coordinator. The Marketplace is not a stock exchange, trading venue, crowdfunding platform, broker-dealer service, deposit-taking service or facility through which a Transaction can be executed.
Aliant Cyprus may review, curate, edit, categorise, publish, withhold, remove or circulate an Opportunity at its discretion. Submission does not guarantee approval, publication, an Introduction, funding, an offer or completion of a Transaction.
4. User submissions and permissions
If you are submitting an opportunity, you warrant that all information and documents you submit are true, accurate, current and not misleading; that you are authorised to submit and disclose them; and that doing so does not breach confidentiality, intellectual property, data-protection, contractual or legal obligations.
You grant Aliant Cyprus and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, format, summarise, translate, redact, display and circulate submitted materials solely to review the Opportunity, operate the Marketplace, facilitate relevant Introductions and provide related services. Aliant Cyprus may create non-confidential teasers or summaries, but will not knowingly publish information you have clearly identified as confidential without an appropriate basis or consent.
You must not upload privileged material, special-category personal data, trade secrets or highly sensitive information unless strictly necessary and lawfully shareable. Aliant Cyprus may require an NDA or additional access controls before releasing detailed information.
If you enquire for an Opportunity, Aliant Cyprus warrants that all information and documents shared with an interested party through the Marketplace, these are the exact documents and information shared by the party who is introducing an Opportunity and Aliant Cyprus has no legal obligation to assess the accuracy of any financial or other data related to an opportunity. You acknowledge and agree that you will undertake to assess and evaluate any such data independently using your own resources and within the time frames agreed with Aliant Cyprus.
5. Introductions and communications
Aliant Cyprus may introduce you or your Opportunity to potential buyers, sellers, investors, lenders, advisers, service providers, strategic partners or other counterparties. You authorise Aliant Cyprus to share sufficient information to assess interest and facilitate contact.
You must keep Aliant Cyprus reasonably informed of material discussions and promptly notify Aliant Cyprus when negotiations begin, a term sheet or heads of terms is signed, due diligence starts, or a Transaction is agreed or completed with an Introduced Party.
6. Marketplace success fee
Unless Aliant Cyprus is separately engaged under another written agreement that expressly governs fees for the relevant Transaction, you must pay Aliant Cyprus a success fee equal to 5% (five per cent) of the Total Transaction Value (the “Success Fee”) when a Transaction is completed, directly or indirectly, with an Introduced Party.
The Success Fee applies whether the Transaction is completed by you, an Introduced Party, or any Related Party; whether it is structured differently from the Opportunity originally presented; and whether Aliant Cyprus participates in subsequent negotiations. The fee also applies to a series of connected or staged transactions and to any increase, extension, rollover, follow-on investment or additional consideration forming part of the same commercial arrangement.
The Success Fee is earned and becomes due on completion of the Transaction. For deferred, contingent or staged consideration, the corresponding portion of the fee becomes due when that consideration is paid, issued, assumed or otherwise becomes unconditional, unless Aliant Cyprus elects to invoice earlier based on the value fixed in the binding transaction documents.
7. Tail period and non-circumvention
An Introduced Party remains protected for (twenty-four) 24 months from the latest Introduction, substantive Marketplace communication or facilitated interaction concerning that party or its Opportunity. A Transaction completed during that period is subject to the Success Fee.
During the term of this Agreement and for twenty-four (24) months following its termination or expiry, you shall not, and shall procure that no Related Party in any way with you, shall, without Aliant Cyprus’s prior written consent, directly or indirectly initiate, solicit, negotiate, contract, transact, deal with or otherwise become involved with any Introduced Party in relation to the Opportunity or any related business opportunity. If you were already in documented, active and substantive discussions with an Introduced Party before Aliant Cyprus’s Introduction, you must notify Aliant Cyprus in writing within five (5) business days and provide reasonable evidence. Aliant Cyprus will determine in good faith whether the prior relationship excludes the Success Fee.
You agree and accept not circumvent, avoid, bypass or obviate, or attempt to circumvent, avoid, bypass or obviate, Aliant Cyprus, nor use Confidential Information or any introduction to conceal a business opportunity, obtain or divert fees, commissions, shares, equity, remuneration or other consideration, or diminish, hamper or prevent any fee, profit, equity interest or other consideration otherwise due or potentially available to Aliant Cyprus.
Any financial gain obtained by you or any third party you legally represent, as a result of a breach of this clause shall be held on trust for the benefit of Aliant Cyprus and paid to an account nominated by Aliant Cyprus. Any overdue amount shall bear interest at four per cent (4%) per annum above the base rate of the bank that Aliant Cyprus holds an account with, from time to time, accruing daily from the due date until actual payment, whether before or after judgment.
The rights of Aliant Cyprus in this clause are without prejudice to Aliant Cyprus’s right to claim damages and any other relief available at law or in equity.
8. Calculation, invoicing and payment
You must provide Aliant Cyprus, on request, with reasonable evidence of the Transaction structure, completion date and Total Transaction Value, including relevant executed agreements or a transaction summary certified by an authorised signatory. Aliant Cyprus may redact information not relevant to the fee calculation.
Aliant Cyprus will issue an invoice for the Success Fee. Unless the invoice states otherwise, payment is due within Ten (10) business days, in cleared funds, without set-off, counterclaim or deduction except where required by law. Fees are exclusive of VAT and similar taxes, which will be added where applicable.
Overdue amounts accrue interest from the due date until payment at the lower of eight per cent (8%) per annum above the European Central Bank main refinancing rate and the maximum rate permitted by law. You must reimburse reasonable external costs incurred in recovering overdue amounts.
9. Separate advisory services
If you request M&A advisory, transaction support, legal, strategic, valuation, due-diligence, sourcing, negotiation, accounting, tax, banking, licensing, regulatory, immigration, corporate or other professional services, the scope, responsible service provider, fees and terms will be set out in a separate written engagement agreement.
Where a separate agreement applies to the same Transaction, its express fee provisions prevail over this Agreement to the extent of any conflict. No professional-client, fiduciary or advisory relationship arises solely from Marketplace use.
10. Compliance and prohibited use
You must comply with all applicable laws, including sanctions, anti-money-laundering, anti-bribery, competition, market-abuse, financial-promotion, securities, foreign-investment, export-control and data-protection rules. You must complete reasonable KYC, AML, source-of-funds and eligibility checks requested by Aliant Cyprus.
You must not use the Marketplace to market an unlawful investment, conduct an unauthorised regulated activity, solicit the public where prohibited, transmit malware, scrape data, impersonate another person, misuse confidential information, infringe rights, or engage in misleading, fraudulent, coercive or abusive conduct.
Aliant Cyprus may suspend or terminate access, reject an Opportunity, decline an Introduction, report suspicious activity or cooperate with authorities where required or reasonably considered appropriate.
11. Confidentiality
Each party must protect non-public information received from the other and use it only for evaluating or pursuing the relevant Opportunity, operating the Marketplace or complying with law. Disclosure is permitted to professional advisers, financing sources, employees, affiliates and prospective consortium members who need to know and are bound by confidentiality obligations.
This clause does not apply to information that is public without breach, already lawfully known, independently developed, or lawfully received from another source. A party may disclose information where required by law or a competent authority, where legally permitted giving prior notice.
12. Data protection and electronic communications
Aliant Cyprus will process personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law. You must ensure that any personal data you submit has been collected and shared lawfully and that relevant individuals have received required notices.
You consent to receiving operational communications relating to submissions, Introductions, compliance checks, agreements and Transactions. Marketing communications will be sent only where permitted and may be opted out of at any time.
13. No verification, advice or guarantee
Information on the Marketplace may be supplied by third parties and may not be independently verified. Aliant Cyprus does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, legality, ownership, valuation, financial condition, forecast, suitability, creditworthiness or identity of any Opportunity or Marketplace participant.
Nothing on the Marketplace constitutes an offer, public offering, investment recommendation, financial promotion, legal, tax, accounting, financial or investment advice. You must conduct your own commercial, financial, legal, tax, technical, regulatory and other due diligence and obtain independent professional advice before entering a Transaction.
Aliant Cyprus does not guarantee confidentiality beyond agreed controls, availability of the Marketplace, any response or Introduction, or that a Transaction will proceed or achieve any result.
14. Intellectual property and website use
The Marketplace, website, branding, databases, layouts, software and Aliant Cyprus-created content are owned by or licensed to Aliant Cyprus. Except as necessary to evaluate an Opportunity, you may not reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, scrape, reverse engineer or commercially exploit them without written permission.
You retain ownership of your submitted materials, subject to the licence in clause 4. Feedback and suggestions may be used by Aliant Cyprus without restriction or compensation.
15. Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Aliant Cyprus is not liable for indirect, consequential, special or punitive loss; loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, goodwill or anticipated savings; loss arising from third-party information, conduct, cyber incidents or a decision to enter or not enter a Transaction; or matters that proper due diligence would reasonably have identified.
Aliant Cyprus’s aggregate liability arising from Marketplace use or this Agreement is limited to the greater of (a) fees actually paid by you to Aliant Cyprus under this Agreement in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim and (b) five thousand euro (EUR 5,000). Nothing excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
You are responsible for the acts and omissions of your Related Parties and representatives in connection with the Marketplace.
16. Indemnity
You will indemnify Aliant Cyprus, its affiliates and their officers, employees and representatives against losses, claims, liabilities, penalties and reasonable professional costs arising from your breach of this Agreement, unlawful or misleading submission, lack of authority, infringement of third-party rights, breach of confidentiality or data-protection obligations, or failure to pay the Success Fee. This indemnity does not apply to the extent caused by Aliant Cyprus’s fraud, wilful misconduct or gross negligence.
17. Suspension and termination
Either party may stop using the Marketplace at any time. Aliant Cyprus may suspend access, remove content or terminate this Agreement immediately where you breach it, fail compliance checks, create legal or reputational risk, or where continuation is impracticable.
Termination does not affect accrued rights. Clauses concerning fees, protected Introduced Parties, confidentiality, intellectual property, liability, indemnity, records, governing law and any provisions intended to survive will continue after termination.
18. Records and audit
Aliant Cyprus’s contemporaneous records of Introductions, communications and Marketplace activity are prima facie evidence of those matters, subject to manifest error. For twenty-four (24) months after a relevant Transaction, you must retain records reasonably sufficient to verify the Success Fee and allow an independent accountant, bound by confidentiality, to inspect them where Aliant Cyprus reasonably suspects underpayment. If an underpayment exceeding five per cent (5%) is found, you must pay the reasonable audit cost in addition to the shortfall and interest.
19. Notices
Formal notices under this Agreement must be in writing and sent by email and, for notices of breach, termination or legal proceedings, also by tracked post or courier. Notices to Aliant Cyprus must be sent to:
Notices to you may be sent to the email or address supplied during onboarding. Email is deemed received on the next business day after transmission unless a delivery failure is received.
20. Changes to this Agreement
Aliant Cyprus may update this Agreement for legal, regulatory, security, operational or commercial reasons. The updated version will be posted with a revised effective date. Material changes will apply prospectively and, where appropriate, notice will be provided. Existing fee rights and protected Introduced Parties remain governed by the version accepted when the relevant Introduction occurred, unless you agree otherwise.
21. General
Neither party may assign this Agreement without the other’s consent, except that Aliant Cyprus may assign it to an affiliate or successor to the Marketplace business. You act as an independent party; nothing creates a partnership, agency, fiduciary relationship or joint venture.
If any provision is invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will continue. A delay in exercising a right is not a waiver. This Agreement, together with any incorporated Privacy Policy and any separate written engagement expressly applicable to a Transaction, constitutes the entire agreement concerning Marketplace use and supersedes prior discussions on that subject.
No person other than the parties and expressly indemnified Aliant affiliates has rights to enforce this Agreement.
22. Governing law and jurisdiction
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising from it are governed by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus. The courts of the Republic of Cyprus have exclusive jurisdiction, provided that Aliant Cyprus may seek urgent protective or enforcement relief in any competent jurisdiction.
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