Download M&A Deals from SDC Platinum
Thomson One Banker SDC Platinum database provides comprehensive M&A transaction data from early 1980s, and is perhaps the most widely used M&A database in the world.
This post documents the steps of downloading M&A deals from the SDC Platinum database. Specifically, I show how to download the complete M&A data where:
- both the acquiror and the target are US firms,
- the acquiror is a public firm or a private firm,
- the target is a public firm, a private firm, or a subsidiary,
- the deal value is at least $1m, and
- the form of the deal is a acquisition, a merger or an acquisition of majority interest.