Dataset Of Historical US Public-company Mergers And Acquisitions, Including Failed Deals?

I’m looking for a historical dataset of US public-company M&A transactions for quantitative research.

Minimum useful fields:

  • target company / ticker / CUSIP
  • acquirer
  • announcement date
  • offer price / consideration
  • cash vs stock vs mixed
  • deal status
  • completion date OR withdrawal/termination date

Revision history and revised offer prices would be a major bonus.

Most importantly, the dataset must include failed/withdrawn deals, not only completed acquisitions, because otherwise it introduces obvious survivorship bias into merger-arbitrage research.

Time period: ideally 2000-present, although even a shorter clean sample would be useful.

Sources I’ve already looked into:

  • SEC EDGAR
  • LSEG / SDC
  • FactSet Mergers
  • S&P Capital IQ
  • PitchBook
  • MarketLine

Does anyone know of a legitimate open dataset, university/academic dataset, replication package, API, or reasonably priced commercial source?

I’m also happy to build it myself if someone can point me toward a reliable methodology or existing open-source project.

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