The M&A deals that matter. Researched weekly.

Lighthouse Research is a web-based M&A intelligence platform that tracks the major active mergers, acquisitions, and special situations our editors curate, with deal pages refreshed weekly. It complements the daily Lighthouse briefing by giving subscribers an interactive, searchable deal database with spread analytics, regulatory timelines, and email update alerts.

The Lighthouse daily briefing is a curated email delivered before 9:30 AM ET with the day’s most important M&A scoops. Lighthouse Research is the deeper research layer underneath — a curated deal database, spread tracker, catalyst calendar, and filing monitor refreshed each week. Many practitioners use both: the briefing for the morning read, Research when they need to go deep on a specific situation.

Deal pages, spreads, catalyst timelines, and regulatory risk profiles are refreshed weekly by our editors as filings, regulatory milestones, and deal developments come in. Research is not a real-time market data feed — it’s deep, editorially-curated weekly research on the deals our editors think matter most.

Risk arbitrage desks, event-driven hedge funds, M&A counsel, corporate development teams, and institutional investors who need ongoing, research-grade visibility into the major active deals, spreads, and regulatory catalysts. If you’re trading or advising on M&A situations, Research is built for your workflow.

Coverage spans North America, Europe, and APAC — including announced public-to-public mergers, take-privates, cross-border acquisitions, spinoffs, and special situations. We prioritize deals with meaningful regulatory complexity (HSR, EU Merger Regulation, EU FSR, CMA, CFIUS) and risk-arb relevance.

Full platform access is $499/month and includes our full curated active deals database, weekly-refreshed spread analytics, regulatory catalyst calendar, update alerts, advanced filters, and proprietary regulatory risk scoring. We also offer one-off Editor’s Choice deal reports for $99 — designed as a low-commitment way to see how we cover a single situation before subscribing. The $99 credit is applied toward your first month if you upgrade to the full subscription.

Editor’s Choice is a one-time $99 purchase available on the deal-detail page of any hand-picked active deal in Lighthouse Research. It unlocks the full report — current spread, catalyst timeline, linked SEC filings, and our regulatory risk score — for that single deal. It exists so practitioners can evaluate the depth of our research on a real situation before committing to the $499/month full-access subscription.

Subscriptions and billing are managed at research.ctfnlighthouse.com/subscribe. Sign in at research.ctfnlighthouse.com/sign-in or create an account at /sign-up. The Research platform has its own account system separate from the daily Lighthouse briefing.

Yes. The fastest way to evaluate the platform is the $99 Editor’s Choice one-off report. For team-wide demos or enterprise trials, email lighthouse@ctfn.news — we typically respond within one business day.