Form F-4 is the merger registration statement for foreign private issuers, the counterpart of the S-4. It registers the shares a foreign acquirer gives the target's US shareholders and carries the deal terms and both companies' financial information.
SPAC mergers with foreign targets use it too.
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.