The Forum carries contributions from the transaction and governance practices of firms including Freshfields, Jones Day and Sidley Austin, alongside academics and institutions, and it is where several of the memoranda already cited on this shelf are most easily read. For an owner it serves two purposes. The first is orientation: reading what sophisticated counsel is telling sophisticated clients about a term you are being asked to accept tells you quickly whether the term is ordinary. The second is adviser selection, since firms write about what they do, and a practice publishing repeatedly on private company deal terms is telling you where its work actually is.
A caution about register. This material is written by lawyers for lawyers and for public company boards, so much of it concerns matters no private owner will ever face, and none of it is advice to you. Use it as a window into the professional conversation, not as a substitute for counsel who has read your documents. The one habit worth forming is searching it for a term before you agree to that term.
Contributions are written by firms with practices to promote, and a memorandum is a marketing document as well as an analysis. Read several on the same question before concluding anything, and note that the center of gravity is public company governance rather than private company sale terms, which is why the ABA Deal Points Study remains the better source for what is market in a private deal.