Gain Insight into the Global Deal Market

FactSet supports every step of the deal process with a suite of deal intelligence tools designed to meet your complex M&A and corporate governance research needs.

Examine Deal Activity

• Build league tables and volume totals
• Access precedent transaction reports covering global deal activities, including private placements and poison pills
• Analyze qualitative aspects of transactions with insight into specifically negotiated merger agreements, deal protection provisions, and advisory fees
• Link back to source documents and search for all SEC documents associated with a transaction
• Create deal books that incorporate key deal documents, exhibits, and more

Analyze Corporate Governance and Activism Data

• Perform thorough analysis of takeover defense and corporate governance data
• Evaluate a company’s defensive characteristics and quantify defense protection relative to peers
• Create custom reports and defense profiles that compile a company’s articles of incorporation, bylaws, shareholder rights plans, and more
• Track activist investors and set alerts to notify you of news related to their campaigns

Access Important Filings

• Instantly find specific data within hundreds of thousands of prospectuses, SEC filings, and M&A documents from all over the world

• Search deals using more than 100 identified search fields