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Mergr focuses exclusively on private equity firms, active acquirers, and M&A advisors

Private Equity Firms

Small to Mega
Generalist & Specialist

  • Investment Criteria
  • M&A History
  • Portfolio Breakdown
  • M&A Analytics
  • Professionals w/ Contact Info
  • Office Locations
  • M&A Connections

Corporates

Public & Private
Acquirers & Targets

  • M&A History
  • M&A Analytics
  • Revenue History
  • M&A Connections
  • M&A Advisors

M&A Advisors

Legal & Financial
Boutique to Multinational

  • M&A Analytics
  • M&A Client Lists
  • Advisory Connections
  • Sector Coverage
  • M&A Contacts

Search private equity firms, corporate buyers, acquisition targets, and M&A advisors — in one deliberately simple database

Private Equity Profile
 

Profile

Review a detailed summary of Marlin Equity's investment interests and M&A activity.

 

Portfolio

View and filter Marlin Equity's current and former portfolio companies.

Corporate Profile
 

Profile

A brief overview of Parker Hannifin and its M&A history.

 

M&A Activity

View and filter Parker Hannifin's history of acquisitions (and divestitures).

Advisor Profile
 

Profile

View a snapshot of Kirkland & Ellis' M&A summary and transaction expertise.

 

Clients

Get a rundown of who Kirkland & Ellis' top M&A advisory clients are.

 

Advisory History

Review and filter Kirkland & Ellis' Buy-side and Sell-side M&A advisory history.

What you can do with Mergr


Build targeted lists of private equity firms

Create custom lists based on firm criteria, stated investment focus, or actual acquisition activity.

Search companies by ownership and acquisition history

Find companies based on current ownership, past acquisitions, or divestitures.

Filter M&A transactions by key deal attributes

Search transactions by target, industry, deal size, acquirer type, or seller type.

Identify active buyers and sellers

Rank private equity firms and corporate acquirers by actual transaction activity — by industry, geography, or period.

Explore relationships across deals

See how firms, acquirers, and advisors connect — who works with whom, across every transaction.

Search 100,000+ M&A press releases

Full-text search across the announcement archive — find deals by keyword, however obscure.

And when you need a focused answer — 15 built-in tools

The same database, pre-arranged around the questions dealmakers actually ask. Included with membership.

Working a live deal

Buyer Match

Type a target description — get ranked likely buyers, PE and strategic, in seconds.

Investor Match

Describe a company — score the growth and PE investors whose criteria actually fit.

Advisor Match

Find the banks and law firms with real deal experience in your mandate’s space.

Finding new opportunities

Prospector

Give it one reference company — get lookalike targets or clients you haven’t met yet.

Roll-Up Tracker

See which platforms are consolidating a sector — ranked by add-on pace.

Shed

Spot inherited add-ons that no longer fit the new owner’s thesis — divestiture ideas early.

Investor Lookalikes

Start from one PE firm — find the others that invest like it.

Researching a firm or company

Dossier

A one-click M&A brief on any firm or company — full deal history, every source cited.

Lineage

Track where a firm’s dealmakers came from and where they’ve gone.

Ownership Graph

Every owner a company has had — and the signals it’s ready to trade again.

Trading Partners

Who a firm really buys from and sells to — its counterparty network.

Compare

Two firms or companies side by side — criteria, activity, overlap.

Market intelligence

Rankings

League tables of the most active PE firms, acquirers, banks, and law firms.

Analytics

M&A volume trends by sector, geography, and deal type — a rolling ten-year view.

Deal Flow Map

Cross-border deal flow at a glance — who’s buying into which countries.

Use Mergr inside Claude and ChatGPT

The Mergr AI Connector gives your AI assistant direct access to the database — ask in plain English, get answers built from verified records with links back to the source.

  VERIFIED CONNECTOR IN ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE DIRECTORY

“Which PE firms would be the strongest buyers for a $30M HVAC company in Texas?”
“Find add-on candidates for every platform in our portfolio.”
“Who are the most active healthcare PE acquirers of the last 5 years?”

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Who uses Mergr

Investment Bankers - Business Brokers - Accountants - Lawyers
Executive Recruiters - Corporate Development Groups Wealth Advisors - Business Owners - Investors - Lenders Consultants - Sales Professionals

What sets Mergr apart

Updated Daily

Updated Daily

Private equity and M&A transactions added each day by an in-house research team.

No Learning Curve

Fast to Use

Search, filter, and navigate firms, deals, and companies immediately — no onboarding or training required.

No Limits

Built for PE & M&A

Mergr focuses exclusively on private equity firms, acquisitions, and ownership.

Works Where You Work

Works Where You Work

Take Mergr with you — exports, integrations, and AI assistants bring the data into the tools you already use.

A large and actively maintained private equity and M&A dataset

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Private Equity Firms

  • Small
  • Middle-market
  • Large
  • Mega
  • Specialist
  • Generalist
  • Funded
  • Unfunded

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Companies

  • Public
  • Private
  • Acquired
  • PE Backed

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Advisors

  • Law Firms
  • Investment Banks
  • Boutique
  • Middle-market
  • Bulge-bracket
  • Multinational

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Transactions

  • Add-on
  • Buyout (LBO, MBO)
  • Distressed
  • Divestiture
  • Going Private
  • Growth Capital
  • Merger
  • Recapitalization
  • Secondary Buyout
  • Stake Purchase

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Scott Metzger, Principal, True North Strategic Advisors

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