Search deals

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Deals by company, role, words, country and date, from merger authorities and SEC filings read every day, each with its parties, dates, status and source.

$0.01 per deal returned

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

Who bought Welbilt, the maker of Frymaster and Merrychef, and what did the competition authorities decide?

Your agent callsmergers_search$0.01 per deal 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

{
  "company": "Welbilt",
  "role": "target",
  "limit": 10
}

What comes back

{
  "deals": [
    {
      "id": "uk_cma:/cma-cases/ali-holding-srl-slash-welbilt-inc-merger-inquiry",
      "title": "Ali Holding S.r.l. / Welbilt, Inc merger inquiry",
      "status": "cleared_with_conditions",
      "confirmed": true,
      "jurisdiction": "GB",
      "parties": [
        {
          "name": "Ali Holding S.r.l.",
          "role": "acquirer",
          "country": null,
          "activity": null
        },
        {
          "name": "Welbilt, Inc.",
          "role": "target",
          "country": null,
          "activity": null
        }
      ],
      "sector": "Food manufacturing",
      "dates": {
        "notified": "2022-03-10"
      },
      "value": null,
      "source": {
        "name": "The UK Competition and Markets Authority",
        "url": "https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/ali-holding-srl-slash-welbilt-inc-merger-inquiry",
        "license": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
        "license_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
        "credit": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0"
      }
    }
  ],
  "matching": 1,
  "notes": [
    "Merger authorities list the deals above their notification thresholds; their dates are notification and decision dates, not signing or closing.",
    "A value comes only from a filing that states one, with the sentence it was read from; null means not disclosed: read the source."
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "searched_names": [
    "Welbilt"
  ]
}

Use it when

To see what a company has bought or sold, or what has changed hands in an industry.

For the most active buyers in a field, use mergers_acquirers.
For companies that could buy one, use longlists_buyers.

What it does

Deals from the merger-control authorities of the EU, the UK, Germany, France, Finland and the US, and from SEC filings, refreshed daily: the parties and their roles, the dates, the status and, where a filing states one, the value with the sentence it was read from. Search by a company (its id or name) as acquirer or target, by words of the deal, by country and by date; news reports join only when asked, marked unconfirmed. Each reply says how far back each source goes.

What comes back

deals (id, title, status, confirmed, jurisdiction, parties: name, role, country, activity; activities, sector, sic, dates: announced, notified, decided, completed, published; value: amount, currency, quote, url, or null when no filing states one; source: name, url, license, license_url, credit), matching (how many match in all), searched_names, notes and coverage (each source's deals, from, to, read_at and state). Every reply also carries cost_usd and balance_usd.

Inputs

Name	Type	What it is
`company`	string	A company id from companies_search (gb:00578327, us:769520) or a name. Up to 300 characters.
`role`	string	The company's part in the deal. One of: any,acquirer,target. Default: any.
`text`	string	Words that must all appear in the deal's title, activities or sector. Up to 200 characters.
`countries`	array of strings	Two-letter codes: the authority's country (EU for the Commission) or a party's. Up to 20 items.
`sources`	array of strings	Up to 8 items. One of: eu_oj,uk_cma,us_ftc,sec,de_bkarta,fr_adlc,fi_kkv,gdelt.
`since`	string	The earliest deal date, e.g. 2024-01-01. Matches ^\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d$.
`until`	string	Matches ^\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d$.
`with_value`	boolean	Only deals whose filing states a price. Default: false.
`include_news`	boolean	Add news reports (GDELT), marked unconfirmed. Default: false.
`limit`	integer	1 to 100. Default: 25.

The call

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

Terminal

curl -X POST https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/mergers_search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"company":"Welbilt","role":"target","limit":10}'

When it refuses

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

Code	When	What to do
`invalid_input`400	A date that isn't YYYY-MM-DD, or since after until.	Send dates like 2024-01-31.
`not_found`404	The company id given has no company in its register.	Find it with companies_search, or search by name.
`unavailable`503	The register for the company id given didn't answer.	Try again in a minute, or search by the company's name.

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