What it does
Returns a paginated list of acquisitions that involve the company, whether the company was the acquirer (an outbound deal) or the acquiree (an inbound deal). Both sides of each deal are surfaced on every row so the consumer can tell which direction it was.
Why you’d use it
Build a complete M&A timeline for a company: when it bought others, and when (if ever) it was itself acquired. Each row’s acquirer_company_id and acquiree_company_id can be chained to GET /companies/{companyId} for the other party.
Key behaviours
Either-side semantics: a single company may appear as acquirer on
some rows and acquiree on others.
Results are ordered by acquisition_date descending, with nulls last.
If the company does not exist, the endpoint returns 404 Not Found.
If the company exists but has no acquisitions on either side, the
endpoint returns 200 OK with an empty array — not 404.
The maximum limit for this endpoint is 1000.
This endpoint uses 1 credit per request.
Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://api.tryspecter.com/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
The ID of the company being requested
The number of results to return, default is 50.
The page number of results to return, base 0, default is 0.
A page of acquisitions involving the company. The same company may appear on either side: as the acquirer (outbound) or as the acquiree (inbound).
The Specter ID for this acquisition.
"acq_5f3a2b1c4d5e6f7a8b9c0d1e"
The Specter company ID of the acquirer. Use with GET /companies/{companyId} to fetch the full company record.
"1a2b3c4d5e6f1a2b3c4d5e6f"
The acquirer company's name.
"Big Co"
The Specter company ID of the acquiree. Use with GET /companies/{companyId} to fetch the full company record.
"9f8e7d6c5b4a9f8e7d6c5b4a"
The acquiree company's name.
"Small Co"
The acquirer's primary domain.
"big.example"
The acquiree's primary domain.
"small.example"
The type of deal. One of acquisition, merge, lbo, acquihire, or management_buyout. Null when Specter could not classify the deal.
acquisition, merge, lbo, acquihire, management_buyout "acquisition"
Deal value in USD, if disclosed.
10000000
Date the acquisition was announced or closed (YYYY-MM-DD).
"2024-02-15"