Falcon & Desert Peak Minerals Combine to Form Sitio Royalties Corp.
From time to time we highlight deals by companies that purchase landowners’ (or rights owners’) royalty payments–giving them a lump sum payment upfront in return for signing over all future royalty payments to the company buying the rights. Buying future royalty payments is not unlike companies that approach and pay lottery winners who receive payouts over a long period (for life, or for a period of years), with the lottery winner selling his or her future payments for a single lump sum now. Two companies of the larger companies in this space are about to merge.
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