M&A transactions and deals databases

Acquisitions-Monthly - news and analysis updated daily. Includes: breaking news, articles, legal comment industry view and company profiles.

Corpfinworldwide - worldwide subscription based deals service formed by the merger of Corpfin Ltd and MergerStat in January 2000. The site also includes some open access content.

CNN Money - most recent deals

Dealogic Mergers & Acquisitions www.dealogic.com/mergers.aspx

FactSet Mergerstat www.mergerstat.com

M&A Online - place for buyers and sellers of companies to network.

M&A Source - a division of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). The service deals with middle market merger and acquisition transactions.

Mergers & Acquisitions (National Statistics) - full text access to this quarterly update with data on recent domestic/overseas acquisitions and mergers.

Mergers & Acquisitions Report - information on mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and bankruptcies. Published weekly.

Mergerplace.com - a resource for buying and selling businesses.

MergerStat - a free US based mergers & acquisitions newsfeed, with subscription services including daily M&A reports, league tables and online databases. The website includes the option to view a sample of a daily transaction report.
M&A Monitor www.m-a-monitor.co.uk

NVST - subscription based international M&A database service, including open access to a sample selection of latest opportunities and a search function to locate M&A opportunities by country/industry sector. Full data is only available to subscribers.

Real-deals - online private equity and venture capital news service, alongside a subscription based deals data service 'Done Deals' which is described as a 'comprehensive round-up of venture capital and private equity deals in Europe'. The Done Deals service is arranged by sector, and includes investor and adviser details. Users can view a sample of the Done Deals service in PDF format.

Scotia Group Inc. - M&A database listing approximately 5,000 mergers and 3,000 companies related to the oil and gas property industry.

Thomson Financial Investment Banking Group including Mergers & Acquisitions products and League tables.

Unquoted - daily news and analysis of the off-exchange marketplace including OFEX, bulletin boards for users to discuss OFEX and unquoted stocks, and an IR research database with data on OFEX companies.

Zephyr - M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to company information. Zephyr contains approximately 180, 000 transactions.

Zephyr fact sheets - free monthly factsheets from BVD which provide a useful summary of recent M&A deal information (available in PDF and excel versions).