A DEFM14A is the definitive proxy statement for a shareholder vote on a merger or acquisition. It tells the story of the deal: how talks started, other bidders, the fairness opinions, what executives will be paid on a change in control, and the date of the vote.
The background section is often the most detailed public account of how a company was sold.
Query syntax
Fields: formType, ticker, cik, companyName, filedAt, accessionNo, items (8-K item numbers), sic, state, periodOfReport. Join terms with AND, OR and NOT and group them with parentheses.
- Exact value:
formType:"10-K"(quotes keep the hyphen and spaces) - Any of a list:
ticker:(AAPL, MSFT, NVDA) - Date range:
filedAt:[2026-01-01 TO 2026-06-30] - Prefix:
formType:10-K*also matches 10-K/A and 10-KT - Part of a name:
companyName:"bank of"
Full reference with every field: filing search docs.