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Rank the most active acquirers

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The companies that bought most often in the deals matching words, countries and dates, ranked, with their latest deals.

$0.01 per acquirer returned

From your agent’s balance. A call that fails costs nothing.

An example

Who are the most active buyers of catering companies since 2021?

Your agent callsmergers_acquirers$0.01 per acquirer returned

The example business is Hansen & Voss, a restaurant-equipment wholesaler in Hamburg with 60 staff. The reply is the one the tool really gives.

With these arguments
{
  "text": "catering",
  "since": "2021-01-01",
  "limit": 10
}
What comes back
{
  "acquirers": [
    {
      "name": "Bernhard Schulte Investment Holding GmbH",
      "deals": 2,
      "latest": "2025-11-18",
      "countries": [
        "DE"
      ],
      "deal_ids": [
        "de_bkarta:B9-113/25",
        "de_bkarta:B9-23/24"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sodexo Beteiligungs B.V. & Co. KG",
      "deals": 1,
      "latest": "2026-07-31",
      "countries": [],
      "deal_ids": [
        "de_bkarta:B9-82/26"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "considered": 15,
  "notes": [
    "Merger authorities list the deals above their notification thresholds; their dates are notification and decision dates, not signing or closing.",
    "A company counts once a deal, by its name without the legal form: a group's subsidiaries that buy under their own names count apart."
  ],
  "coverage": [
    {
      "source": "eu_oj",
      "name": "The European Commission, in the Official Journal of the EU",
      "deals": 2,
      "from": "2020-12-01",
      "to": "2020-12-01",
      "read_at": "2026-10-14T08:00:00+00:00",
      "state": "daily"
    },
    {
      "source": "uk_cma",
      "name": "The UK Competition and Markets Authority",
      "deals": 1,
      "from": "2022-03-10",
      "to": "2022-03-10",
      "read_at": "2026-10-14T08:00:00+00:00",
      "state": "daily"
    }
  ]
}

Use it when

To find the active buyers in an industry before selling a company or sizing competition for one.

What it does

The companies that bought most often among the deals matching words, countries and dates, from merger authorities and SEC filings, ranked by how many deals they made, with their latest deal ids. Only deals whose source names the acquirer count; news never does.

What comes back

acquirers (name, deals, latest, countries, deal_ids: up to 5, newest first), considered (deals counted), notes and coverage. Every reply also carries cost_usd and balance_usd.

Inputs

NameTypeWhat it is
textstringWords that must all appear in a deal's title, activities or sector. Up to 200 characters.
countriesarray of stringsTwo-letter codes: the authority's country (EU for the Commission) or a party's. Up to 20 items.
sourcesarray of stringsUp to 8 items. One of: eu_oj,uk_cma,us_ftc,sec,de_bkarta,fr_adlc,fi_kkv.
sincestringMatches ^\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d$.
untilstringMatches ^\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d$.
limitinteger1 to 100. Default: 20.

The call

Over MCP, call mergers_acquirers on https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/mergers. Over REST:

Terminal
curl -X POST https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/mergers_acquirers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"catering","since":"2021-01-01","limit":10}'

When it refuses

A refused call costs nothing and says what to do next.

CodeWhenWhat to do
invalid_input400A date that isn't YYYY-MM-DD, or since after until.Send dates like 2024-01-31.

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