Finance Resources

Mergers & Acquisitions

Databases

Health Devices International Sourcebase
Includes mergers and acquisitions in the medical device industry.

LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations
Lists of mergers and acquisitions arranged by both acquiring and acquired company, going back to 1976.

Mergent Events Data
Provides up-dated information on mergers. Enables users to capture and analyze breaking business developments as they occur.

Mergent Online
Mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock and insider trading on 15,000 US and 20,000 foreign companies, both active and inactive. Historical data is available for the past 15 years.

SDC Platinum
This database lets you access Securities Data Company's online databases of financial transactions, including the Mergers & Acquisitions database. Available only on standalone computers in Kresge Library and PhD Lab. For Ross constituents only.

SNL Interactive for Real Estate
Provides data, news, and analytics for the public real estate industry, including mergers and acquisitions.

Zephyr
European M&A deals.

Websites

Yahoo! Reference
Calendar listing current, preceding and last month's deals.

The Online Investor
Lists mergers and buybacks during the current and previous week.

mergermarket
Global M&A activity.

Journals

• Mergers & Acquisitions Report
  News stories covering M&A and other corporate restructurings.
• Mergers & Acquisitions: The Dealermaker's Journal
  Each issue contains "M&A Rosters", containing basic details on U.S. M&A's and U.S. acquisitions abroad. Listings are arranged by industry. The February issue contains the "M&A Almanac", covering the previous year of activity.

Reference Sources

Research Guide to Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers and Other Restructuring. Print. (Reference HD 2746.5 .H22)

Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: the Online Secrets of Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros. Print. (HD 2746.5 .T91)

The Art of M&A: a Merger Acquisition Buyout Guide. Print. (HD 2746.5 .R33)

Mergerstat Review. Print. (HD 2746.5 .M57)
Contains data for publicly traded, privately owned and foreign companies, current and historical. Use this source to look up deals by industry, for the previous year; at least one party is a U.S. equity.

Mergent Company Archives Manual. Print. (Reference HD 2746.55 .U5 M55)
This source is meant to be a "financial statistical record for companies who have merged, were acquired, gone bankrupt or otherwise disappeared as private companies" from 1996 to date.

Cases in Corporate Acquisitions, Buyouts, Mergers and Takeovers. Print. (Reference HD 2756 .C34)
Covers about 300, high profile mergers over the last 100 years. Not all mergers were successful. International in scope. Merger details and discussion, brief history of each company involved.

Corporate Takeover Defenses. Print. (KF 1477 .C82)
Review of takeover defenses of about 2,000 U.S. public companies.