M&A Events API: List 8-Ks reporting completed acquisitions, dispositions or changes — SEC EDGAR

Name: M&A Events API: List 8-Ks reporting completed acquisitions, dispositions or changes — SEC EDGAR
Creator: AnswerPool
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

List 8-Ks reporting completed acquisitions, dispositions or changes of control (Items 2.01 and 5.01) market-wide with company, time and links. Use for deal monitoring without filtering the tape.

$0.02 per call — pay with prepaid card credits (Authorization: Bearer ck_live_…, packs from $1) or with USDC over x402: call it, get 402 with the price, retry signed. Failed calls are never charged.

How do you call it?

GET /v1/sec/8k/ma — product id sec_8k_ma_events. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with product_id=sec_8k_ma_events.

curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/ma?limit=25"

# with a prepaid credit key
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/ma?limit=25"

Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/ma?limit=25 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_8k_ma_events

What does the answer look like?

A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_8k_ma_events.

`as_of`	2026-09-16T21:47:51.603Z
`index_started_at`	2026-08-30T19:10:24.500Z
`since`	2026-08-31T00:00:00
`count`	3
`next_cursor`	2026-09-16
`refresh_after`	2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z

`events`

event_id	accession	cik	ticker	company	form	event_type	occurred_at	flags	score	payload.items	payload.labels
ev_64b52afd739040ee93fe	0001140361-26-036721	0000010048	BRN	BARNWELL INDUSTRIES INC	8-K	form_8k	2026-09-16	acquisition_or_disposition, regulation_fd	0.2	2.01, 7.01, 9.01	acquisition_or_disposition, regulation_fd, exhibits
ev_f6ad0698600e400eb9a1	0001493152-26-042846	0001812727	EZRA	Reliance Global Group, Inc.	8-K	form_8k	2026-09-16	acquisition_or_disposition, regulation_fd	0.2	2.01, 7.01, 9.01	acquisition_or_disposition, regulation_fd, exhibits
ev_c84fd19e483d47bfb233	0001717547-26-000065	0001717547	BRSP	BrightSpire Capital, Inc.	8-K	form_8k	2026-09-16	acquisition_or_disposition	0.1	2.01, 9.01	acquisition_or_disposition, exhibits

The same sample as raw JSON

{
 "as_of": "2026-09-16T21:47:51.603Z",
 "index_started_at": "2026-08-30T19:10:24.500Z",
 "since": "2026-08-31T00:00:00",
 "count": 3,
 "events": [
  {
   "event_id": "ev_64b52afd739040ee93fe",
   "accession": "0001140361-26-036721",
   "cik": "0000010048",
   "ticker": "BRN",
   "company": "BARNWELL INDUSTRIES INC",
   "form": "8-K",
   "event_type": "form_8k",
   "occurred_at": "2026-09-16",
   "flags": [
    "acquisition_or_disposition",
    "regulation_fd"
   ],
   "score": 0.2,
   "payload": {
    "items": [
     "2.01",
     "7.01",
     "9.01"
    ],
    "labels": [
     "acquisition_or_disposition",
     "regulation_fd",
     "exhibits"
    ]
   },
   "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10048/000114036126036721/0001140361-26-036721-index.htm"
  },
  {
   "event_id": "ev_f6ad0698600e400eb9a1",
   "accession": "0001493152-26-042846",
   "cik": "0001812727",
   "ticker": "EZRA",
   "company": "Reliance Global Group, Inc.",
   "form": "8-K",
   "event_type": "form_8k",
   "occurred_at": "2026-09-16",
   "flags": [
    "acquisition_or_disposition",
    "regulation_fd"
   ],
   "score": 0.2,
   "payload": {
    "items": [
     "2.01",
     "7.01",
     "9.01"
    ],
    "labels": [
     "acquisition_or_disposition",
     "regulation_fd",
     "exhibits"
    ]
   },
   "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1812727/000149315226042846/0001493152-26-042846-index.htm"
  },
  {
   "event_id": "ev_c84fd19e483d47bfb233",
   "accession": "0001717547-26-000065",
   "cik": "0001717547",
   "ticker": "BRSP",
   "company": "BrightSpire Capital, Inc.",
   "form": "8-K",
   "event_type": "form_8k",
   "occurred_at": "2026-09-16",
   "flags": [
    "acquisition_or_disposition"
   ],
   "score": 0.1,
   "payload": {
    "items": [
     "2.01",
     "9.01"
    ],
    "labels": [
     "acquisition_or_disposition",
     "exhibits"
    ]
   },
   "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717547/000171754726000065/0001717547-26-000065-index.htm"
  }
 ],
 "next_cursor": "2026-09-16",
 "refresh_after": "2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z"
}

How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?

The fastest source behind this answer can change every 15 minutes, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.

SEC EDGAR (US federal public domain) — upstream: https://efts.sec.gov

Method version 0.1.0 · serving cache 1 day · every response carries a result_id you can resolve at /v1/provenance.

When should you use it?

Deal-flow and event-driven monitoring.

What you skip building

item filtering
polling

When should you not use it?

Rumored or announced-only deals — 8-Ks report completions and control changes.

Where else can you find this?

Catalog entry (JSON, free)
OpenAPI schema — input and output types, prices, the 402 flow
llms.txt — every product in one plain-text document