Sec Contracts Search
sec_contracts_searchFind SEC material-contract exhibits by CLAUSE LANGUAGE — credit agreements, merger agreements, indentures, employment and severance agreements, change-of-control agreements, license and supply agreements, warrants — searching the full text of every Exhibit 10 / Exhibit 4 / Exhibit 2 attached to 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1 and S-4 filings in SEC EDGAR full-text search (2001 to today). The inverted question: "credit agreements filed since 2025 with a change of control clause", "employment agreements with a 2x severance multiple", "indentures with a make-whole redemption", "merger agreements with a reverse termination fee". Returns one row per exhibit document: company, CIK, ticker, root form, filing date, exhibit type (EX-10.1, EX-4.2...), the filer's exhibit description ("EX-10.1 CREDIT AGREEMENT"), a text snippet around the matched phrase, the exhibit document URL, accession number and the filing index page — plus the same hits grouped by filing with each filing's exhibit list. Narrow by exhibit family (EX-10 material contracts, EX-4 debt instruments/indentures/warrants, EX-2 merger and acquisition agreements), root form, filing-date window, one company (name, ticker or CIK) or SIC industry code (7372 software, 2834 pharma, 6022 banks). Feed document_url (or adsh + filename + cik) to sec_contract_text to read the agreement.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| sic | No | Restrict to an SIC industry code, e.g. "7372" (prepackaged software), "2834" (pharmaceutical preparations), "6022" (state commercial banks), "1311" (crude petroleum and natural gas). Comma-separate several. | |
| form | No | Root form the exhibit was attached to, e.g. "8-K", "10-K", "10-Q", "S-1", "S-4", "DEF 14A". Comma-separate several: "8-K,10-K". Omit for all forms. | |
| limit | No | Max exhibit documents to return (1-50, default 10). Each returned exhibit costs one bounded document read for its snippet when include_snippets is on. | |
| match | No | phrase (default): the words must appear together in order. all: every word must appear somewhere in the document. any: at least one word. Use `all` for concept searches like "severance multiple change control". | |
| query | Yes | The clause or phrase to find in exhibit text, e.g. "change of control", "make-whole", "reverse termination fee", "most favored nation". Multi-word input is matched as an exact phrase by default (see `match`). Double quotes inside the value are passed through, so "\"change of control\" severance" searches the phrase AND the word. | |
| since | No | Earliest filing date, YYYY-MM-DD. Full-text coverage starts 2001-01-01; earlier values are clamped. Default: 2 years before today. | |
| until | No | Latest filing date, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today. | |
| company | No | Restrict to one filer: ticker ("ADBE"), company name ("Adobe") or CIK ("796343"). Names are resolved against the SEC ticker list first; unlisted names fall back to EDGAR's entity-name filter. | |
| exhibit_type | No | Exhibit family to keep. EX-10 = material contracts (credit, employment, license, supply, leases). EX-4 = instruments defining security-holder rights (indentures, notes, warrants, registration rights). EX-2 = plans of acquisition, reorganization, merger. EX-99 = additional exhibits (press releases, investor decks). any (default) = EX-10 + EX-4 + EX-2, the material-contract set. all_exhibits = every EX-* document. "10", "ex10" and "EX-10.1" are all read as EX-10. | |
| include_snippets | No | Fetch each matched exhibit and return a ~440-character window around the first occurrence of the phrase. Default true. Set false for a faster list-only answer. |