> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.benzinga.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Merger And Acquisition > Returns mergers and acquisitions (M&A) data including deal announcements, completions, and details about acquiring and target companies. Includes deal size, payment type, deal status, and expected/completed dates for corporate consolidation activities. ```json Response (200 OK) theme={null} { "ma": [ { "acquirer_cusip": "233377407", "acquirer_exchange": "NASDAQ", "acquirer_isin": "US2333774071", "acquirer_name": "DXP Enterprises", "acquirer_ticker": "DXPE", "currency": "USD", "date": "2026-01-05", "date_completed": "2026-01-05", "date_expected": "", "deal_payment_type": "", "deal_size": "", "deal_status": "Completed", "deal_terms_extra": "Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.", "deal_type": "Acquisition", "id": "695bc1b183cac20001bec44e", "importance": 2, "notes": "", "target_exchange": "", "target_name": "PREMIERflow, LLC", "target_ticker": "", "updated": 1767621689 } ] } ``` ```json Response (401 Unauthorized) theme={null} { "ok": false, "errors": [ { "code": "auth_failed", "id": "unauthorized", "value": "Invalid or missing authentication token" } ] } ``` ```json Response (404 Not Found) theme={null} { "ok": false, "errors": [ { "code": "no_data_found", "id": "not_found", "value": "No data found for the specified parameters" } ] } ``` ```json Response (500 Internal Server Error) theme={null} { "ok": false, "errors": [ { "code": "internal_server_error", "id": "server_error", "value": "An unexpected error occurred while processing your request" } ] } ``` ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi/calendar_api.spec.yml GET /api/v2.1/calendar/ma openapi: 3.0.0 info: contact: {} description: >- This REST API returns structured data for conference calls, dividends, earnings (and future earnings dates), economics, pharmaceutical announcements, guidance, IPOs, secondary offerings, ratings, M&A activity, and splits. termsOfService: http://swagger.io/terms/ title: Calendar API version: 2.1.0 servers: - url: https://api.benzinga.com description: PROD security: [] paths: /api/v2.1/calendar/ma: get: tags: - ma summary: Returns the mergers and acquisitions data description: >- Returns mergers and acquisitions (M&A) data including deal announcements, completions, and details about acquiring and target companies. Includes deal size, payment type, deal status, and expected/completed dates for corporate consolidation activities. operationId: get-ma parameters: - description: >- Specifies return format. Query parameters work the same for both formats in: header name: accept required: true schema: type: string enum: - application/json default: application/json - description: >- Page offset. For optimization, performance and technical reasons, page offsets are limited from 0 - 100000. Limit the query results by other parameters such as date in: query name: page schema: type: integer default: 0 - description: Number of results returned. Limit 1000 in: query name: pagesize schema: type: integer - description: >- Date to query for calendar data. Shorthand for date_from and date_to if they are the same. Defaults for latest in: query name: parameters[date] schema: type: string format: YYYY-MM-DD - description: Date to query from point in time in: query name: parameters[date_from] schema: type: string format: YYYY-MM-DD - description: Date to query to point in time in: query name: parameters[date_to] schema: type: string format: YYYY-MM-DD - description: >- The importance level to filter by. Uses Greater Than or Equal To the importance indicated in: query name: parameters[importance] schema: type: integer enum: - 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - description: One or more ticker symbols separated by a comma. Maximum 50 tickers in: query name: parameters[tickers] schema: type: string format: csv - description: >- Records last Updated Unix timestamp (UTC). This will force the sort order to be Greater Than or Equal to the timestamp indicated in: query name: parameters[updated] schema: type: integer - description: >- M&A date field to sort on (newest to oldest for expected and completed; oldest to newest for announced) in: query name: parameters[date_sort] schema: type: string enum: - expected - completed - announced responses: '200': description: success content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/api.AcquisitionResponse' text/xml: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/api.AcquisitionResponse' '400': description: Bad Request content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/api.ErrorResponse' text/xml: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/api.ErrorResponse' '500': description: Internal Server Error content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/api.ErrorResponse' text/xml: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/api.ErrorResponse' security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: schemas: api.AcquisitionResponse: description: API response containing an array of M&A records properties: ma: items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/calendarapi.Acquisition' type: array type: object api.ErrorResponse: properties: text: type: string type: object calendarapi.Acquisition: properties: acquirer_cusip: example: '594918104' type: string acquirer_exchange: example: NASDAQ type: string acquirer_isin: example: US5949181045 type: string acquirer_name: example: Microsoft Corporation type: string acquirer_ticker: example: MSFT type: string currency: example: USD type: string date: example: '2024-01-09' type: string date_completed: example: '2024-06-15' type: string date_expected: example: '2024-06-30' type: string deal_payment_type: example: Cash type: string deal_size: example: '68700000000' type: string deal_status: example: Completed type: string deal_terms_extra: example: All-cash transaction type: string deal_type: example: Merger type: string id: example: 60a7f5e8e4b0f5a3c8e9f5ac type: string importance: example: 5 type: integer notes: example: Subject to regulatory approval type: string target_cusip: example: 00507V109 type: string target_exchange: example: NASDAQ type: string target_isin: example: US00507V1098 type: string target_name: example: Activision Blizzard Inc. type: string target_ticker: example: ATVI type: string updated: example: 1704819600 type: integer type: object securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: in: query name: token type: apiKey ````