Comprehensive transaction reports covering global deal activity, including private placements, poison pills, defensive positioning, and more give you quick access to detailed information with a wealth of data.

Track Deal Activity

Solutions for Law Firms Legal professionals rely on FactSet's powerful applications to - research historical transactions - defend clients from takeover bids - assess takeover defenses - review historical equity ownership - analyze merger agreements - monitor activist investors - search filings & clauses for precedents, and much more

• Analyze specifically negotiated merger agreement and deal protection provisions, advisory fees, target, and acquirer fees, and more
• Track post deal ownership information and discover who will be on the new board
• Link back to source documents and search for all SEC documents associated with a transaction

Access Takeover Defense and Corporate Governance Data

• Evaluate the defensive characteristics of specific companies
• Perform comparable analysis across endless variables, including industry, market index, market capitalization, and state of incorporation

Analyze Corporate Activism

• View activist investor profiles, campaigns, tactics, outcomes, and more
• Build and compare company profiles detailing all activism against a specific company.

Get Comprehensive Ownership Intelligence

• View summary and detailed ownership data, or screen for institutions and investors that meet your specific criteria
• Build investor profiles or easily transform data into presentation-ready documents

Find Global Prospectuses, SEC Filings, and M&A Documents

• Perform complex searches for prospectuses, filings, and M&A documents
• Check precedents and analyze risk and returns