two deals from Feb 2025 where the headline price is only part of the money. coincidence?

looked at two small deals from the same month and both had a price that comes in pieces. XPS Pensions bought Polaris Actuaries for £23.4M cash on completion, plus contingent consideration of up to £35.0M over three years. £9M of the upfront is subject to claw-back. Bajaj Consumer Care bought Banjara's maker Vishal Personal Care for approx. INR 120 crore cash, paid in two tranches. that's a sample of two so it proves nothing. but in both, the number in the headline isn't really what gets paid on day one. for anyone who looks at announced deals as event-driven stuff, do you see this a lot with small and mid-size targets, or did I just pick two that happen to rhyme?

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