Research Guides: Business : Mergers & Acquisitions: Key Resources

Find Deals & League Tables

Orbis M&A (fka Zephyr)
Global information on 1 million M&A, IPO, Private Equity and Venture Capital deals and rumors. Search by hundreds of criteria, including multiples; analyze a set of deals; generate league tables; refer to original sources (translated into English); and integrated financials for companies involved. Formerly known as "Zephyr."
Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ provides a wealth of information on companies, markets and people. Covers market intelligence, financial analysis, screening and targeting, and relationships between people and organizations. Register for an account.

Bloomberg
Real-time news, financial and economic data. Worldwide pricing of bonds, stocks, commodities, currencies, money markets, and mortgages, with historical data. Economic time series, company financial statements, press releases, analysts forecasts, company filings and prospectuses, executive profiles, league tables, and more. Bloomberg terminals are available in Feldberg Library.

LSEG (Refinitiv) Workspace
LSEG Workspace (fka Refinitiv) provides information on public & private global companies and includes: financials and filings, overview, news & corporate events, deals, share ownership, and analyst reports. Workspace also provides market views as well as screening and analysis for companies, deals/league tables, private equity, mergers and acquisition data, and more. Register for LSEG Workspace
MarketLine Advantage
Country-specific industry reports include market overviews, data, segmentation, outlook and five forces analysis. Company reports include financials, top competitors, deals and SWOT analyses.

Mergerstat M&A Database
Available through Nexis Uni
SDC Platinum
SDC Platinum is a comprehensive financial transactions database, with content across new issues, M&A, syndicated loans, private equity, project finance, public finance, and more.

M&A Statistics

Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA)
M&A Statistics

Statista: the leading statistics portal
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

SEC Info

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings most relevant to mergers & acquisitions: Form 425, 14-A, 14-C, 8-K

Deal terms are disclosed in a company's 8-K report to the SEC and are filed within four days of the event. Terms can also be included as exhibits in a company's 10-K or 10-Q reports. Where a merger or acquisition requires a vote by shareholders, the terms will be available in the 14A. Form 425 Filing under Securities Act Rule 425 of certain prospectuses and communications in connection with business combination transactions.

Search EDGAR
Free access to more than 20 million company filings
Securities & Exchange Commission
Descriptions of SEC Filings
SEC Fast Answers: Mergers
Info on mergers from the SEC.
Investor Bulletin : Reverse Mergers

News & Journals

Factiva
Indexes and provides full text to 33,000 news and business information sources from 200 countries in 28 languages, includes regional and industry publications, newspapers, newswires, Web and blog content.