Methodology / V1 demonstration
Market evidence with its limits shown.
APAC Deal Index is a contributor-led benchmark for private-company transactions in the lower middle market.
All figures in this demonstration are fixtures, not live market data.
Contributor-confirmed method
Completed transactions, consistently normalised.
Contributors provide nine transaction facts without naming parties or supplying documents. Automated completeness, arithmetic, plausibility and duplicate checks determine whether a record is Contributor confirmed or Pending review.
- Aggregation
- Only anonymised, canonical transaction aggregates are eligible for market outputs.
- Metric basis
- EV / EBITDA, EV / revenue, business age and time to close are calculated deterministically. EBITDA and SDE populations remain separate.
- Correction
- A valid correction supersedes the former active version; a withdrawal removes it from future aggregates.
Publication controls
Minimum-cell suppression
At least five canonical transactionsCells below N = 5 are suppressed.Re-identification risk is assessed separately.No individual deal is shown
Eligible metric basisRanges show p25, median and p75 only.Fallback levels retain the selected basis and size band.Versioned calculation
Current coverage limits
The launch demonstration contains illustrative cells only. A missing range means there is not yet a sufficiently broad, safe sample for that market.