With Deal Retriever™, you receive hard-to-obtain corporate transaction details for large cap companies with many transactions principally over $250 Million.

Q. How many merger and acquisition transactions are there in the Deal Retriever database?
A. As of Sep 2010 there were over 5,100 completed merger and acquisition transactions in the Deal Retriever database. New transactions are added weekly.

Q. What percent of the Deal Retriever transactions are private deals?
A.  There are no private-to-private transactions in the M&A Insight database, since such data is not required to be made public.

Q. What are the sources of the Deal Retriever merger and acquisition transaction data?
A.  Deal Retriever monitors several business publications, reports, and online reporting services on a daily basis to track mergers and acquisitions as well as issues impacting M&A activities in selected industries.  Publications and reports regularly reviewed include The Wall Street Journal, The Deal.com, Value-Line, Dow Jones Newswires, Information Week, Electronic News. Online databases and reporting services monitored include the Edgar filings of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Edgar Online, CBS MarketWatch, M&A Insight, Yahoo! Finance and Hoover's. 

Q. What does Deal Retriever provide that the business press and online reporting services do not provide?
A. Deal Retriever provides three analytical tools that save you time and money. First, you can focus on a particular industry immediately.  Next, summary statistics for the industry and other criteria you select are provided.  Finally, graphical representations of six key purchase price multiples for the industry and other criteria you select are provided.

Q. What is the best way to use the Deal Retriever merger and acquisition transaction data?
A. Company presidents, CEOs and CFOs are chiefly concerned with the industry in which their company operates.  These managers are also concerned with the industries in which their suppliers and customers operate.  Thus, the most meaningful information Deal Retriever can provide management is transactional data by "industry", which Deal Retriever groups by 4-digit S.I.C. code.  Second, searches can also be made by "size" either transaction size or sellers' revenue size. Third, executives may want to further narrow their search by "time frame", or any combination of such search criteria.