Library: Corporate Finance: Mergers &amp; Acquisitions

Finding Mergers & Acquisitions for specific companies

Company Dossier (NexisUni) This link opens in a new window From the Menu drop down box at the top of the page, select: Company Dossier. Information is gathered from a wide array of sources, including: Standard and Poor's Corporate Descriptions, Hoover's Company Reports, Disclosure Reports and more. Subject areas include: Business & Financial News, U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, industry ratios, and SEC filings.

1. From the Nexis/Uni home page, slide to the top of the page.
2. Click on the down arrow by Menu. Select: Company Dossier

In the Company Name box, type: your company
Select your company from the Results List
From the left navigation area, under Company Information, select: Company Activities
Then, select Mergers

Industry Report on M&A

M&A Investment Index The M&A environment is constantly changing, whether it’s deal structure and focus or just an overall decline in global deals. With the disruption caused by COVID-19 and new geopolitical landscapes, it’s more important than ever to understand how M&A activity will evolve across different markets. This Investment Index analyses global M&A activity across 50 markets from 2015 to 2021 to identify the most attractive M&A markets for investment and their future outlook.

Finding Articles about Merger Information in the Business Databases

Search article databases for information/news on M&A activity.
Each database provides a link to a Thesaurus.
By looking in the Thesaurus, you can find more specific terms, like:

hostile takeovers
leveraged buyouts
management buyouts
reversed mergers
tender offers

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window Find articles focused on business, finance and economics. Also features company profiles.
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Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Searches three ABI-INFORM databases: Dateline, Global, and Trade and Industry. Covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. Search nearly 8,000 publications worldwide, almost 80% available in full text. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective from 1923-present. Full text coverage of the Wall Street Journal is also included from 1984-present.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Find articles that cover the full range of business topics, including company profiles, industry reports, market research reports, and SWOT analyses.
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Provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. Subject areas include: accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Indexing and abstracting from 1965-present. Some cases indexing go back further than 1965. Updated daily.

Finding Merger Information through Company Histories

You can glean lots of information by checking each individual company's history.

See the Subject Guide for Company Information that contains a section on Company Histories.