The material contracts archive
Find the contract
you had in mind.
Search the language of commerce through every indexed Exhibit 10—credit agreements, licenses, leases, employment contracts, and more.
- Coverage
- 2001–present
- Source
- SEC EDGAR
- Access
- Open & free
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Search the collection
Try a contract type, agreement name, or distinctive title.
Built from the study The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis — if EX10 Search helps your work, please consider citing it.
See the full citationOne archive, countless transactions.
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About the archiveThe agreements
behind the economy.
Exhibit 10 is where public companies disclose their material contracts. This collection turns decades of filings into a researchable record of how firms hire, borrow, license, lease, supply, and transact.
Search results are matched by title and link back to the source filing whenever possible. New Exhibit 10 filings are collected and indexed continuously.
The archive combines SEC records with the dataset developed for The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis. It is offered as an open research resource.
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Take the archive with you
The entire dataset.
Open for research.
Download original filings, text-converted contracts, structure files, or individual years from Hugging Face. The complete repository is approximately 66.7 GB.
Terminal
# Install the official client
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
# Download the complete dataset
$ hf download yonathanarbel/SEC_Exhibit_10 --repo-type dataset --local-dir SEC_Exhibit_10
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Useful to you?
If this collection supports your work, please consider citing the study that developed the dataset.
Yonathan A. Arbel, The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 927 (2024).