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