Corporate events from business news: M&A, IPOs, layoffs, contract wins and lawsuits 2019–2026

We describe six datasets of corporate events extracted from business news between January 2019 and June 2026. A broad timeline holds 1,339,579 deduplicated event reports of thirteen types for 210,414 companies. Five derived datasets consolidate reports into one row per real-world event: 123,550 M&A deals, 13,316 company IPOs, 19,208 layoff events, 90,019 contract wins and 22,071 lawsuits and enforcement cases. Each event is linked to the company it concerns, two-sided events record the company's role (acquirer or target, contractor or client, plaintiff or defendant), and every row keeps the news sentence it was read from. Monetary values are kept only when they match a figure in that sentence or pass plausibility ceilings. Hash-chosen samples of whole companies are public under CC BY-NC 4.0. Datasets described Corporate Events 2019–2026: M&A, Layoffs, IPOs: Kaggle, Hugging Face, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23432171 M&A Deals Dataset 2019–2026: Global Acquisitions: Kaggle, Hugging Face IPO Data 2019-2026: India, US, UK & Global IPOs: Kaggle, Hugging Face Layoffs Dataset 2019–2026: Global, India, US, UK: Kaggle, Hugging Face Contract Wins Dataset 2019–2026: Orders & Tenders: Kaggle, Hugging Face Corporate Lawsuits Dataset 2019–2026: Kaggle, Hugging Face Data licence CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution "Fliar BI"); this paper CC BY 4.0. Contact: b2b@fliarbi.com.