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KFBS Resources for Grad Students: Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions

CB Insights
Provides information and independent analysis of private companies in a wide range of industries. A special focus on the financing, and mergers and acquisitions of these companies through private investors and venture capital and private equity firms.
NOTE:
- Register for an account with your UNC email address.
- Users may only download 4,000 lines per year.
- Questions? Contact KFBS' Research Tools.
Access: Students, faculty, and staff or AHEC users affiliated with UNC-CH with an AHEC Digital Library account may access from on- or off-campus, but must ALWAYS authenticate, EVEN when on-campus.
VitalLaw (CCH IntelliConnect)
Provides comprehensive federal and state tax information, including tax codes, regulations, court cases, IRS publications, editorial commentary and explanation.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Orbis M&A
Covers mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private equity, and venture capital deals and rumors. Global coverage includes European deals from 1997, North American deals from 2000, and Other Global Areas deals from 2003. Search by deal elements such as deal type, geography, industry, company financials, and multiples. Analyze deals in tables and graphs.
Export financials to Excel
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Capital IQ (Kenan-Flagler ONLY)
In-depth financial information on publicly-traded companies and investment firms. Includes transactions in both public and private capital markets by a wide range of company identification data, financial statement data, executives' biographical characteristics, and deal or transaction specifics. Data can be exported to Excel .

NOTE:
- Access to Capital IQ is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
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Users MUST use their @kenan-flagler.unc.edu email address when requesting an account.

Users MUST access through UNC Kenan-Flagler Research Tools & Library Resources web page. DO NOT bookmark the S&P Capital IQ login page.

Users will be required to enter their UNC onyen from both on-campus and off-campus. Then users will be able to enter their Capital IQ user id and password.

If you have any questions please contact David Ernsthausen.

LSEG & SDC Platinum

SDC Platinum
Add-on to LSEG Workspace; for KFBS only. Includes
- Global New Issues: information on new issues of stock by public companies as well as information on Initial Public Offerings by previously private companies. For U.S. and non U.S. companies.
- Mergers & Acquisitions Joint Ventures, and Repurchases: information on U.S and Non U.S. deals.
- VentureXpert: venture capital funding information. at the firm, fund and portfolio company level.
- Corporate Restructuring: Full details on U.S bankruptcies from 1988 to the present and Limited information on Bankruptcies from 1980 to 1990. Also information on Exchange offers for U.S. companies.
- Corporate Governance: information on Poison Pills U.S. companies may have but not on Proxy Fights.
- Global Public Finance: information on bonds issued by states, cities, towns, and other subnational issuers.
NOTE: Contact KFBS' Research Tools for access information.

LSEG Workspace
Information & data on publicly traded U.S. and international companies: summary financial data with links to company filings, key ratios actual and forward estimates, stock pricing data, key corporate events, officers and directors, analyst rating. Includes analyst "Aftermarket" reports (AMR): full-text industry and company reports written by investment bank analysts. More than 1.2 million reports available back to 1982.
Data can be exported to Excel .
NOTES:
- Register with your UNC email for an account before accessing this resource. See instructions at https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go65062420.
- Authenticate even when on campus.
- Contact Nancy Lovas with any questions.
- 150-page daily download limit. Resets daily at 12:00 AM ET.
Access: Student, Faculty and Staff with current UNC status, and an email ending with one of the following email domains: @unc.edu, @kenan-flagler.unc.edu, or @email.unc.edu, may set up a user account and access from on- or off-campus, but must ALWAYS authenticate, EVEN when on-campus. Please consult: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go65062420 for detailed directions on self-registering for a user account.