Engagement
A right of way, granted for a term.
A wayleave in land law is the right to cross land you do not own, granted by the owner, paid for and renewed. That is the shape of this engagement. The Wayleave is the agreement. The Book is the market. Fees are published because a fund should be able to decide whether this is worth a conversation without having to have one.
The structure
Two things, priced separately.
The Wayleave.
The master agreement with your fund. It grants origination access to every market covered, keeps each instance live and current, and runs for twelve months. Renewable.
The Book.
The deliverable for one market, commissioned under the Wayleave. A complete Domesday Book: the acquirable universe, ownership traced to individuals, earnings sized firm by firm, the market economics, and the private platform your team logs into.
Fees
Includes the Wayleave for twelve months. Origination access to that market, the instance live, refreshed throughout.
Any subsequent Book commissioned under a live Wayleave. The method is built and the relationship is papered, so the second market costs less than the first. Each carries its own twelve months of origination access.
Keeps the data current and the instance live for a further twelve months. Lapses cleanly if you do not renew.
No retainers, no panels, no day rates, no discovery phase. Nothing renews by surprise: renewal is your option, not ours. The alternative to a Book is a commissioned market study, which costs more, takes longer and does not hand you the acquirable universe at the end of it.
How it works in practice
The rules we hold ourselves to.
Your instance is yours alone.
The instance is siloed. Your shortlist, your pipeline and your notes are private to your fund and are never shown to anyone else. A market is not sold exclusively: another fund may commission the same Book, on its own instance, and sees none of your work.
Delivered in two weeks once the brief is agreed.
The method is built and we do not take more work than we can do properly, so the timetable holds. It is a commitment we publish rather than one you discover halfway through your mandate.
The market is defined in writing.
Each Book carries a schedule setting out exactly what the market is: activity, geography and size band, so both sides know what is covered and what is not.
Your work stays yours.
Shortlists, pipeline status and call notes belong to your fund. Data refreshes fold new information in without overwriting a judgement your team has made. On exit, your pipeline record leaves with you.
The instance outlives the engagement.
Your instance is its own deployment, under your logins, with your data exportable in full. If Wayleave ever could not continue, the Book you paid for and the pipeline your team built remain yours to keep, move or archive.
Bring us a market.
Tell us the market and the acquisition profile and we will tell you the size of the universe before you commit to anything. The first conversation is about whether the market is worth the work.
will@wayleavepartners.comLondon based, working UK-wide.