Example Searches
Pre-built search recipes for common sourcing, diligence, and research questions
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Private Equity Search Examples
Sample searches to get you started looking up investors
- How to Find Investors Active on $1B+ DealsSurface every PE firm or corporate acquirer that has bought a company for $1 billion or more — for mega-cap pitch comps, IC reference, vendor and service-provider target lists, and…
- How to Find PE Firms with Current Investments in a Specific SectorSurface every PE firm with at least one active portfolio company in your sector — for sourcing peer building outreach lists, competitive intel, or vendor target accounts
- How to build a list of private equity firms that have an office in IndiaSearch by Investor Office Location (Not Just HQ)
- How to build a list of private equity firms interested in the software sector
- How to build a list of private equity firms that have exited an investment in the past year
- How to View a PE Firm's Portfolio on MergrLook up a private equity firm and explore its current and former portfolio companies, sorted and filtered by sector, geography, deal date, or counterparty type
- How to View a PE Firm's M&A Activity on MergrSee every transaction a PE firm has been involved in — buy-side and sell-side — with filters for transaction type, year, and geography. Different from the Portfolio tab, which lists…
- How to Find Companies That Have Acquired on MergrSurface companies that have acquired — the parent companies behind the deals. The count threshold is adjustable to focus on occasional acquirers or serial acquirers. Useful for BD prep, vendor…
- How to Find PE-Backed Platforms That Buy from Other PE FirmsSurface every PE-backed platform company that has made at least one acquisition where the seller was another private equity firm — for sponsor-to-sponsor add-on sourcing, sell-side BD, co-investor identification, and…
- How to Find Companies that have Divested on MergrSurface companies that have completed divestitures or carve-outs — the parent companies behind the deals. Useful for sell-side BD prep, vendor target lists, PE carve-out sourcing, and tracking corporate portfolios…
- How to Find PE-Backed Companies on MergrSurface companies currently owned by a private equity firm — narrow by sector, geography, size, or sponsor. The foundational view for PE-backed sourcing, sell-side BD, vendor target lists, market mapping,…
- 4 Strategies to Source Deals using MergrSeveral ways for financial and strategic buyers to generate buy-side ideas with Mergr
- How to Find Recently Exited PE-Backed Companies on MergrSurface companies that have previously been owned by a PE firm — sorted by most recent acquisition date — for tracking fresh PE exits, sourcing post-PE targets, vendor BD on…
- How to View a Company's M&A History on MergrLook up any specific company — public or private — and see every transaction it has been involved in, buy-side or sell-side, with filters for sector, transaction type, geography, and…
- How to Find Recently Acquired Companies on MergrSurface every company in the database sorted by most recent acquisition date — for sell-side BD, vendor target lists, market tempo reads, sourcing context, and tracking who's been deploying capital.
- How to Find Recently Active Acquirers on MergrSurface companies that have just made an acquisition — sorted by most recent buy-side deal date. Useful for sell-side BD, vendor target lists, competitive intel, sourcing, and tracking who's deploying…
- How to Find PE-to-Strategic ExitsSearch for transactions where a PE-backed company was sold to a strategic acquirer — for sell-side comps, buyer intel, sector mapping, or competitive tracking.
- How to Find M&A Transactions by Buyer LocationSurface deals where the buyer (PE firm or strategic) is headquartered in a specific US state, Canadian province, or country — for regional sourcing, vendor targeting, local market mapping, or…
- How to Find Recent Public-Company DivestituresSurface deals where a publicly-traded company sold or carved out a division, subsidiary, or business unit — for PE sourcing, strategic acquisition targets, sell-side advisory pipeline, vendor BD, and tracking…
- 2025 PE BuyoutsHow to search buyout M&A transactions announced in the year 2025
- Find 2025 M&A DealsHow to search M&A transactions announced in a given year on Mergr
- How to Search M&A Transactions by Industry SectorFind deals in a specific sector — healthcare services, machinery, software, anything in Mergr's sector taxonomy — for market mapping, deal counts, sector trend pitches, or sourcing context
- How to Filter M&A Transactions by Deal SituationNarrow your transaction search to specific deal types — buyouts, add-ons, divestitures, IPOs, secondary buyouts, trade sales — using two different filter paths.
- How to Find Investment Banks Active in a Specific SectorSurface every investment bank that has advised on deals matching a chosen sector — for sell-side or buy-side mandate prep, banker league-table building, vendor target lists, and IC reference
- How to Search Investment Banks by Size on MergrUse Mergr's bank-size buckets — Broker, Boutique, Middle-Market, Large, Bulge Bracket — to build advisor lists. Especially useful when deal values aren't disclosed and you're using bank size as a…
- Boutique Investment Banks: Definition, Examples & How to Find ThemHow we define and how to look-up on Mergr