Form F-10EF Files Dataset

The Form F-10EF Files Dataset is a structured collection of auto-effective Securities Act registration statements filed on EDGAR by Canadian issuers eligible to use the U.S.-Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS). Each record represents a single F-10EF accession — the registration statement plus its full set of issuer-supplied exhibits — packaged as an accession-numbered folder inside a monthly ZIP container alongside a metadata.json summary that mirrors the EDGAR submission header. Filings come directly from MJDS-eligible Canadian issuers acting as foreign private issuers, with co-registrant guarantor subsidiaries appearing where guaranteed debt is registered. The dataset covers F-10EF accessions from May 2007 through the present and is distributed as monthly ZIP containers built from HTML, JSON, and TXT artifacts.

Update Frequency
Daily
Updated at
2026-05-05
Earliest Sample Date
2007-05-01
Total Size
2.9 MB
Total Records
231
Container Format
ZIP
Content Types
HTML, JSON, TXT
Form Types
F-10EF

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What This Dataset Contains

The dataset packages every F-10EF accession received by EDGAR — the auto-effective variant of the MJDS registration statement under Securities Act Rule 467(b). Form F-10 is one of the four MJDS forms that allow large, seasoned Canadian issuers to register securities for sale into the United States by adapting a Canadian-prepared prospectus to U.S. disclosure requirements rather than producing a separate U.S.-style registration statement. The "EF" suffix indicates that the filing is declared effective immediately upon filing, with no SEC staff review or waiting period, when the registrant has met specified reporting-history and float thresholds and the offering meets the conditions of Rule 467(b).

Substantively, an F-10EF combines:

  • a U.S. registration cover wrapper carrying registrant identification and signatures;
  • a base-shelf or transactional Canadian prospectus (often incorporated by reference rather than re-typeset);
  • securities-description language and risk factors;
  • audited financial statements (typically prepared under IFRS or, historically, Canadian GAAP, with reconciliation when required);
  • offering-mechanics and pricing terms; and
  • a full set of registration exhibits (legal opinion of Canadian counsel, underwriting agreement, consents of independent auditors and other experts, indenture or warrant forms, powers of attorney, the Rule 457 filing-fee table, and other governance and authorization documents).

The dataset is distributed as ZIP containers, one per calendar month, beginning with filings from May 2007. Each container expands into a flat directory whose immediate children are accession folders that bundle HTML registration documents, HTML exhibits, an Inline XBRL filing-fee exhibit (when required), and a JSON metadata index.

Content Structure of a Single F-10EF Record

What one record represents

One record in the Form F-10EF Files Dataset corresponds to a single SEC accession — one Form F-10EF submission filed on EDGAR by a Canadian issuer eligible to use the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS). Each record is delivered as an accession-numbered folder inside a monthly ZIP container and bundles every issuer-supplied document of the original EDGAR submission (the registration statement plus its attached exhibits) together with a metadata.json summary that mirrors the EDGAR submission header. The folder name is the SEC accession number with the dashes stripped (e.g., accession 0001104659-25-114606 becomes folder 000110465925114606), giving a stable, deterministic key that joins back to EDGAR.

Container shape and per-record layout

Each monthly ZIP expands into a flat directory whose immediate children are accession folders; the accession folder is the record. The intra-folder layout is:

1 <accession-no-dashes>/
2 metadata.json (always present, structured index)
3 <preparer>_f10ef.htm (the F-10EF registration statement)
4 <preparer>_ex<n-n>.htm (one HTML file per exhibit)
5 <preparer>_ex-filingfees.htm (Inline XBRL filing-fee exhibit, when required)
6 ... (additional exhibit HTMLs as filed)

Document filenames are issuer- and preparer-controlled (Toppan, RR Donnelley, Workiva, and similar stems are common) and are not predictable from the form type alone. The reliable way to identify a document's role is the EDGAR type field, which appears both inside the SGML wrapper of each file and in the documentFormatFiles[] array of metadata.json.

The metadata.json index

Every record carries a metadata.json at the root of the accession folder. It is a single JSON object that mirrors the EDGAR submission header and inventories every document associated with the filing. Its top-level fields are:

  • formType — always F-10EF for this dataset.
  • accessionNo — canonical accession number with dashes (e.g., 0001104659-25-114606).
  • filedAt — ISO-8601 filing timestamp with timezone (Eastern time on the EDGAR server).
  • description — human-readable form description ("Form F-10EF - Registration Statement for Securities of certain Canadian Issuers, immediately effective.").
  • linkToFilingDetails — direct EDGAR URL to the primary registration document.
  • linkToHtml — URL to the EDGAR filing-index landing page (...-index.htm).
  • linkToTxt — URL to the canonical EDGAR full-submission .txt (the SGML concatenation of all documents).
  • linkToXbrl — URL to a top-level XBRL viewer; commonly empty for F-10EF because structured data lives inside the filing-fee exhibit rather than the registration body.
  • id — stable internal hash identifier for the record.
  • documentFormatFiles[] — inventory of every submission document plus a trailing entry for the complete-submission text file. Each element carries sequence (EDGAR sequence number), size in bytes, documentUrl (sometimes routed via /ix?doc= for inline-XBRL exhibits), description (issuer-supplied, e.g., F-10EF, EXHIBIT 5.1, EX-FILING FEES, GRAPHIC, Complete submission text file), and type (EDGAR document type, e.g., F-10EF, EX-5.1, EX-FILING FEES, GRAPHIC).
  • dataFiles[] — inventory of structured-data files associated with the submission. For F-10EF the typical entry is the extracted XBRL instance document for the filing-fee exhibit (description = "EXTRACTED XBRL INSTANCE DOCUMENT", type = "XML").
  • entities[] — one block per filer or co-registrant carried in the EDGAR header. Fields include companyName with a parenthetical role suffix (e.g., "... Inc. (Filer)", "... Inc. (Co-Registrant)"), cik, fileNo (the SEC 333-... registration file number), filmNo, irsNo, fiscalYearEnd as MMDD, stateOfIncorporation using EDGAR's province/country codes (Canadian provinces appear as A0A9, e.g., A6 for Ontario), act (33 for the Securities Act), type (the form type for that entity), sic (Standard Industrial Classification code with description), and tickers as an array.
  • seriesAndClassesContractsInformation[] — present for schema consistency but typically empty for F-10EF, which is not an investment-company form.

The documentFormatFiles[] array is the authoritative inventory; on-disk siblings reconcile to it by matching the basename of documentUrl to the file on disk, or by matching the <FILENAME> tag inside each document's SGML wrapper.

SGML wrapping of HTML documents

Every .htm in the container is wrapped in EDGAR's SGML <DOCUMENT> envelope — the same envelope EDGAR uses inside the full-submission .txt. The first lines of every document are SGML headers and the last line is </DOCUMENT>:

1 <DOCUMENT>
2 <TYPE>F-10EF
3 <SEQUENCE>1
4 <FILENAME>tm2517339-2_f10ef.htm
5 <DESCRIPTION>F-10EF
6 <TEXT>
7 <html>... (full HTML body) ...</html>
8 </TEXT>
9 </DOCUMENT>

The <TYPE>, <SEQUENCE>, <FILENAME>, and <DESCRIPTION> tags inside this wrapper duplicate the corresponding fields in documentFormatFiles[], providing two equivalent locator paths. Any HTML parser consuming these documents must skip or strip the leading <DOCUMENT>...<TEXT> and trailing </TEXT></DOCUMENT> lines before parsing the inner markup; otherwise the SGML pseudo-tags will leak into the DOM.

The registration statement document

The primary document — type F-10EF, sequence 1, filename pattern <preparer>_f10ef.htm — is the registration statement itself. It is full XHTML with rich inline styling and is typically several hundred kilobytes. Its internal structure follows Form F-10's instruction set adapted for the auto-effective procedure:

  • Facing/cover page identifying the registrant (legal name, jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, primary SIC, IRS Employer Identification Number where applicable, principal executive offices, telephone number), the agent for service of process in the United States (typically a CT Corporation or similar resident agent), and the title and amount of securities being registered.
  • Calculation-of-registration-fee table. Preserved on the cover historically; for modern filings the binding fee data lives in the EX-FILING FEES exhibit and the cover may carry only a reduced or descriptive version.
  • MJDS basis statements confirming the issuer's eligibility, the use of Canadian disclosure standards, and references to Rule 467(b) for immediate effectiveness.
  • The Canadian short-form base shelf prospectus (or transactional prospectus) — either reproduced in full or, very commonly, incorporated by reference from the issuer's Canadian filings on SEDAR/SEDAR+, with the U.S. wrapper providing the additional disclosures required by the Form F-10 cover and Part II.
  • Risk factors and securities description at the level required by F-10 beyond what the Canadian prospectus contains.
  • Part II content: undertakings, indemnification of directors and officers, recent sales of unregistered securities (where applicable), and the exhibit index.
  • Signature pages for the registrant by an authorized officer, for the directors and principal officers (often executed via powers of attorney filed as exhibits), and for the U.S. authorized representative of the registrant for service of process. Where co-registrant guarantors participate (common in debt offerings under the same shelf), parallel signature blocks appear for each guarantor.

Exhibit families

Exhibits are stored as separate .htm files in the same accession folder, each wrapped in its own SGML <DOCUMENT> envelope. The exhibit families that appear across the dataset, identified by their EDGAR type and description, include:

  • Underwriting / agency agreement (EX-1.1) — the underwriting agreement, agency agreement, or equity distribution / at-the-market agreement signed in connection with the take-down.
  • Indenture or form of indenture (EX-4.x) — for debt offerings, the indenture governing the notes, supplemental indenture, or form of note.
  • Form of warrant or subscription receipt agreement (EX-4.x) — securities-instrument exhibits when warrants, units, or subscription receipts are part of the offering.
  • Legal opinion of Canadian counsel (EX-5.x) — a signed opinion as to the validity of the securities being registered under the laws of the issuer's province of incorporation, frequently issued by a major Canadian firm.
  • Tax opinions (EX-8.x) — opinions on Canadian and/or U.S. federal income tax consequences when material to the offering.
  • Consents of independent auditors (EX-23.x) — written consents from the issuer's auditing firm (and any predecessor auditor or auditor of an acquired business whose financial statements are incorporated) to the use of their reports in the registration statement. Plain HTML, frequently a single page, with a signature block for the firm.
  • Consents of other experts (EX-23.x) — consents from reserves engineers, mining qualified persons, or other technical experts whose reports are incorporated by reference; common for resource issuers using F-10EF.
  • Powers of attorney (EX-24.1) — authorizing one or more officers to sign amendments and related filings on behalf of named directors.
  • Statement of eligibility of trustee (EX-25.x, Form T-1) — for debt offerings, the trustee's statement of eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act.
  • Filing-fee exhibit (EX-FILING FEES) — the Rule 457 fee table, delivered as an Inline XBRL XHTML document (see below).

The numbering scheme follows the Form F-10 instruction set; the dataset's authoritative classifier is the type field, not the issuer-supplied numeric exhibit label, since labels can drift across filers and over time.

The Inline XBRL filing-fee exhibit

The EX-FILING FEES document is structurally distinct from the other exhibits. It is an XHTML file that is simultaneously a valid web document and a machine-readable XBRL instance: it declares the SEC's Filing Fees Data taxonomy and the DEI taxonomy in its namespaces (typically xmlns:ffd="http://xbrl.sec.gov/ffd/<year>" and xmlns:dei="http://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/<year>") and emits both visible and hidden ix:nonNumeric and ix:nonFraction facts. Per-offering-line xbrli:context blocks (offrl_1, offrl_2, ...) scope the line-level facts. Tagged concepts include filing identifiers (ffd:FormTp, ffd:SubmissnTp), entity identifiers (dei:EntityCentralIndexKey, dei:EntityRegistrantName), and the substantive fee mechanics (ffd:FeeRate, security type, amount registered, proposed maximum aggregate offering price, fee calculation, rule references, and offset amounts where the issuer is carrying forward fees from a prior registration). Downstream extraction of fee-table data should rely on the ffd:-namespaced facts in this Inline XBRL document rather than scraping the rendered HTML table.

Included content

Each accession folder contains the complete set of issuer-supplied submission documents that EDGAR received, except for the categories noted below. Concretely:

  • metadata.json, always present.
  • The registration statement HTML (the F-10EF body).
  • Every text-bearing exhibit HTML attached to the submission, each carrying its own SGML wrapper and identifiable by its type/description tags.
  • The Inline XBRL filing-fee exhibit HTML, when the filing post-dates the EX-FILING FEES mandate.

Excluded or separate content

Three categories of EDGAR-attached content are intentionally not bundled into the accession folder:

  • Image files (GRAPHIC). Issuer logos, signature graphics, and other binary attachments referenced by <IMG SRC=...> inside HTML exhibits are excluded. Their inventory entries remain in metadata.json (with documentUrl pointing to EDGAR), and HTML exhibits will contain dangling image references. Consumers who need those graphics must fetch them from EDGAR directly.
  • The complete-submission text file (<accession>.txt). EDGAR's canonical SGML concatenation of every document in the submission is referenced by linkToTxt and listed as the trailing entry of documentFormatFiles[] (with a blank-space sequence and type), but the file itself is not redistributed on disk; the same content is reconstructable from the SGML-wrapped per-document HTMLs that are bundled.
  • Standalone XBRL instance / linkbase files. The extracted XBRL instance XML for the filing-fee exhibit appears in dataFiles[] with a documentUrl to EDGAR but is not redistributed in the container, since the Inline XBRL HTML already carries the same facts inline.

Structural and format evolution

Form F-10/F-10EF has been a stable MJDS form since 1991, and the broad section ordering of the registration statement (cover, MJDS statements, prospectus or incorporation thereof, Part II undertakings and indemnification, exhibit index, signatures) has not changed substantively across the dataset's coverage window. The notable evolutionary changes affect exhibits and electronic format:

  • EX-FILING FEES and Inline XBRL. Following the SEC's amendments to filing-fee disclosure (Release 33-10997, 2021) and the Inline XBRL-tagged Exhibit 107 requirement, F-10EF filings effective on or after the relevant compliance dates carry a separate EX-FILING FEES Inline XBRL document. Earlier filings present the fee table only as a calculation-of-registration-fee table on the registration statement cover, with no separate Exhibit 107 and no inline-XBRL fee facts; the dataFiles[] array in those records will not contain an extracted filing-fee XBRL instance.
  • Document presentation format. Across the dataset's window, F-10EF documents have effectively always been HTML (with embedded graphics) rather than ASCII text; legacy plain-ASCII filings are not characteristic of this form. The shift from plain HTML to XHTML with richer inline styling has been gradual rather than abrupt, driven by filer choice of preparer software. Inline XBRL appears only where the SEC mandates it — currently the filing-fee exhibit — because F-10EF financial statements are not subject to the issuer-level XBRL financial-data tagging requirements that apply to domestic forms; the registration body and most exhibits remain plain HTML.
  • Auditor and expert consent landscape. Following PCAOB-related changes and audit-firm transitions, the set of consents attached to F-10EF filings has grown more heterogeneous over time (predecessor-auditor consents, consents from auditors of acquired businesses, consents of mineral-reserves and oil-and-gas qualified persons under NI 43-101 / NI 51-101 in resource-issuer filings). These appear as additional EX-23.x documents and are identified individually in documentFormatFiles[].
  • Co-registrant and guarantor blocks. As MJDS issuers increasingly use F-10EF for guaranteed-debt shelf take-downs, the entities[] array in modern records frequently contains multiple (Co-Registrant) blocks alongside the primary (Filer) block, each with its own CIK, file number, jurisdiction, and SIC. Older equity-only filings more often have a single (Filer) entity.

Interpretation and extraction notes

  • The dataset's record key is the accession; one accession produces one folder. There is no within-record subdivision by exhibit family — exhibits sit as siblings of the registration statement under the accession folder.
  • Joining on-disk files to the inventory should be done via documentFormatFiles[].documentUrl (basename) or via the <FILENAME> SGML header, not via filename heuristics, because preparer-controlled stems vary across issuers.
  • The trailing inventory entry with blank sequence and blank type describes the (excluded) complete-submission .txt and should be treated specially when iterating documents.
  • HTML exhibits routinely carry dangling <IMG SRC> references because graphics are excluded; downstream rendering will show broken images unless graphics are resolved against EDGAR.
  • Incorporation by reference is heavy in F-10EF: a substantial portion of substantive disclosure (the Canadian base shelf prospectus, prospectus supplements, Annual Information Form, financial statements, and MD&A) may live outside the registration statement and reach the U.S. record only through cross-references to SEDAR/SEDAR+ or to the issuer's prior EDGAR filings. The bundled HTML reflects only what was filed in the F-10EF submission itself.
  • For fee-table extraction, prefer the ffd:-namespaced Inline XBRL facts in the EX-FILING FEES exhibit (or the linked extracted XBRL instance XML on EDGAR) over scraping the rendered HTML, because the XBRL facts are normalized and unambiguously typed.
  • stateOfIncorporation uses EDGAR's province/country code system (Canadian provinces appear as A0A9); consumers expecting ISO codes must translate.
  • F-10EF amendments are not filed on the F-10EF form itself — post-effective amendments and prospectus supplements use other form types (F-10/A, 424B-series). This dataset contains only F-10EF accessions; cross-form lineage of a registration must be reconstructed via the SEC fileNo (333-...) carried in entities[].fileNo.

Who Files or Publishes This Dataset, and When

The "EF" suffix designates the filing for immediate effectiveness under Securities Act Rule 467(b), distinguishing it from a standard Form F-10, which is held pending SEC staff review and declared effective by order under Rule 467(a).

Who files the record

The filer is the Canadian issuer itself, acting as a foreign private issuer registrant. To use Form F-10 or F-10EF, the issuer must satisfy the eligibility conditions of the U.S.-Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System:

  • Canadian incorporation. The issuer must be incorporated or organized under the laws of Canada or a Canadian province or territory. U.S.-domiciled affiliates of Canadian groups generally cannot file in their own name.
  • Foreign private issuer status. The issuer must qualify as a foreign private issuer under Rule 405. MJDS also extends to certain Canadian crown corporations and governmental issuers.
  • 12-month Canadian reporting history. The issuer must have been a reporting issuer in a Canadian province or territory for at least 12 months and be current in its Canadian continuous disclosure obligations.
  • Public float threshold. Equity offerings generally require an aggregate public float of at least US$75 million held by non-affiliates. Investment-grade non-convertible debt and preferred stock, and rights offerings to existing security holders, may be registered without meeting the float test.
  • Canadian short-form eligibility. F-10EF filers are typically eligible to file a short-form prospectus under Canadian National Instrument 44-101 and to use shelf procedures under National Instrument 44-102. The U.S. F-10EF wraps that Canadian base prospectus with the additional disclosures and undertakings required by Form F-10.

Co-registrant guarantor subsidiaries may sign alongside the principal Canadian issuer where guaranteed debt is being registered. Underwriters, selling security holders, auditors, and counsel appear in the filing but do not file in their own capacity.

When the record is created

Form F-10EF is event-driven, not periodic. A record arises whenever an MJDS-eligible Canadian issuer elects to register a U.S. offering on the auto-effective track. Common triggers include:

  • Filing or renewal of a Canadian base shelf prospectus. The most common pattern: the issuer files (or has just filed) a short-form base shelf prospectus in Canada under NI 44-102, and the F-10EF registers the U.S. portion of that shelf. The Canadian shelf typically has a 25-month life, and a renewal F-10EF is filed before expiry.
  • A specific underwritten offering. F-10EF may be used for a single, fully priced deal rather than a shelf, with effectiveness on filing allowing pricing and sales to proceed without a waiting period.
  • A rights offering extended to U.S. holders under the MJDS rights-offering branch.
  • Debt, hybrid, or derivative offerings, including senior and subordinated notes, medium-term notes, convertible debentures, warrants, and subscription receipts.
  • Post-effective amendments to add securities, update disclosure, or reflect successor issuers; these may themselves invoke Rule 467(b) auto-effectiveness when its conditions are again satisfied.

Effectiveness occurs at the moment of filing or at a designated time on the filing date specified by the registrant under Rule 467(b). Shelf take-downs after effectiveness are made through prospectus supplements filed under Rule 424(b), corresponding to Canadian supplemented prospectuses. Unused capacity is removed through Form RW or deregistration filings.

EDGAR-based F-10EF records in this dataset begin in May 2007 and continue through the present.

Important distinctions

  • F-10EF vs F-10. Same eligible population and same offering scope. The difference is procedural: F-10EF is designated for Rule 467(b) auto-effectiveness, while a standard F-10 awaits effectiveness by SEC order under Rule 467(a). Most modern MJDS shelf registrations use F-10EF.
  • F-10EF vs F-3 / S-3. A Canadian foreign private issuer that meets Form F-3 thresholds may register on F-3 instead, relying on U.S. continuous disclosure rather than the Canadian prospectus record. F-10EF leverages Canadian disclosure and a Canadian base prospectus.
  • F-10EF vs other MJDS forms. Form F-7 covers rights offerings as an alternative path; Form F-8 and Form F-80 cover exchange offers and business combinations. Form 40-F is the MJDS annual report under the Exchange Act, not a Securities Act registration; the same issuer commonly files Form 40-F annually and an F-10EF when offerings arise.
  • Loss of MJDS eligibility. An issuer that falls below the float threshold (for non-investment-grade equity), loses 12-month Canadian reporting status, or ceases to be Canadian-incorporated must move to Form F-1, F-3, S-1, or S-3 as appropriate.
  • Auto-effective is not unreviewed. Rule 467(b) reflects regulatory deference to the Canadian principal regulator's review, not a waiver of Section 11 and Section 12 liability under the Securities Act of 1933. The SEC may review filings post-effectiveness, and material disclosure deficiencies can require post-effective amendments.

How This Dataset Differs From Similar Datasets or Filings

Form F-10EF sits within a tight cluster of MJDS forms for Canadian issuers and the broader registration-statement family used by foreign private issuers and U.S. domestic registrants. Confusion most often arises with adjacent MJDS forms, with non-MJDS shelf registrations, and with the prospectus supplements and free-writing prospectuses that follow an effective F-10 shelf.

Form F-10 (standard MJDS registration statement). The direct sibling. Same MJDS regime, same eligible issuer population, and substantially identical prospectus content. The sole meaningful difference is procedural: a standard F-10 is filed for SEC staff review and effective only upon declaration, while F-10EF is auto-effective on filing. Treat F-10 and F-10EF as complementary halves of the same MJDS shelf universe.

Form F-7 (MJDS rights offerings). MJDS registration narrowly scoped to rights offerings extended by Canadian issuers to existing security holders. Disclosure focuses on rights mechanics rather than a general base prospectus; F-7 cannot serve as a primary capital-raising shelf.

Form F-8 (MJDS business combinations and exchange offers). MJDS registration triggered by a transaction (merger, acquisition, exchange) rather than a capital raise. Disclosure is deal-centric, including target information and exchange terms. Not a shelf vehicle.

Form F-80 (MJDS business combinations, larger issuers). Same purpose as F-8 but calibrated to larger Canadian issuers under different MJDS eligibility thresholds. Useful only for mapping the full MJDS grid (F-10/F-10EF for offerings, F-7 for rights, F-8/F-80 for combinations, 40-F for periodic reporting); not a substitute for F-10EF.

Form F-3 (foreign private issuer shelf, non-MJDS). The non-MJDS short-form shelf for seasoned FPIs, including non-Canadian filers. Built on U.S. integrated disclosure incorporating Form 20-F or 40-F by reference, rather than Canadian prospectus documents. Subject to staff review unless filed as an automatic shelf by a WKSI. Use F-3 for FPI shelf activity outside MJDS; F-10EF when the filer is a Canadian MJDS-eligible issuer relying on home-country disclosure.

Form S-3 (U.S. domestic shelf). The U.S. domestic short-form shelf, built on U.S. GAAP and Regulation S-K. No filer-population overlap with F-10EF; relevant only when mapping equivalent shelf vehicles across issuer regimes.

Form F-1 (foreign private issuer long-form registration). Long-form registration for FPIs that do not qualify for short-form or MJDS treatment, typically IPOs or issuers lacking reporting history. Always staff-reviewed, never auto-effective, and far more disclosure-intensive. Canadian issuers below MJDS thresholds default here.

Form 40-F (MJDS annual report). The reporting-side MJDS counterpart. 40-F is a periodic annual report (AIF, MD&A, audited financials) filed in lieu of 20-F or Form 10-K; it does not authorize securities sales. F-10EF filings routinely incorporate 40-F content by reference, making 40-F a strong complement, not a substitute.

Form 6-K (FPI current and interim reports). Event-driven and interim reporting for FPIs, including MJDS issuers. Triggered by what the issuer makes public in its home jurisdiction rather than by a fixed U.S. event list. Reporting, not registration; useful for tracking ongoing disclosure between F-10EF shelf filings.

Form 424B prospectus supplements. The take-down layer of the shelf process. The F-10EF base prospectus describes the universe of securities that may be offered; 424B supplements (424B2, 424B3, 424B5, etc.) describe each priced tranche actually sold, including final pricing, distribution terms, and use of proceeds. F-10EF alone shows shelf capacity; 424B is required to measure realized issuance, pricing, and syndicates.

Form FWP (free writing prospectus). Supplemental written marketing materials (term sheets, investor presentations, pricing supplements) tied to a take-down off an F-10EF or F-3/S-3 shelf. Not a registration statement and contains no full prospectus disclosure; captures marketing-stage materials around specific tranches.

Boundary clarification

F-10EF is uniquely defined by three combined attributes: MJDS-only and restricted to qualifying Canadian issuers, a registration statement rather than a periodic or current report, and auto-effective on filing rather than staff-reviewed. Among MJDS forms, F-7, F-8, and F-80 occupy distinct transactional niches and 40-F handles periodic reporting. Among shelf registrations, F-3 and S-3 cover non-MJDS FPIs and U.S. domestic issuers. F-1 covers long-form FPI registration. Downstream, 424B records take-downs and FWP captures marketing materials; 6-K covers interim disclosure. F-10EF is best understood as the auto-effective Canadian shelf base, with 40-F and 6-K as the reporting layer and 424B and FWP as the offering-execution layer.

Who Uses This Dataset

F-10EF filings are the auto-effective MJDS registration statements through which eligible Canadian issuers reach U.S. investors. Each accession bundles a prospectus, EX-1.1 underwriting agreement, EX-5 validity and EX-8 tax opinions, EX-23 consents, an Inline XBRL EX-FILING FEES exhibit, and EDGAR metadata. A narrow set of cross-border specialists uses these components for distinct purposes.

ECM and DCM bankers

Capital markets bankers at U.S. and Canadian investment banks use the corpus as a precedent library when structuring bought deals, base shelf takedowns, and cross-border follow-ons. They mine the prospectus for pricing mechanics, greenshoe size, gross spreads, and stabilization language, and read EX-1.1 for commission grids, market-out and termination triggers, and indemnification carve-outs when negotiating engagement letters.

Cross-border securities lawyers

U.S. and Canadian counsel benchmark prospectus drafting against current peer practice. They examine MJDS eligibility statements, incorporation-by-reference of Canadian base shelf prospectuses and AIFs, enforceability-of-judgments risk factors, and Canadian-to-U.S. accommodations in financial statement presentation. EX-5 validity and EX-8 tax opinions serve as drafting templates; NI 44-101/44-102 references and passport-system disclosures are tracked across registrants.

Underwriters' counsel

Underwriters' counsel treat EX-1.1 and ancillary exhibits as their working precedent: representation-and-warranty packages, conditions precedent, comfort-letter and 10b-5 negative-assurance hooks, MAC outs, indemnity and contribution language, and bring-down opinion mechanics. They also compare FINRA compensation-review handling and DRS or book-entry settlement provisions across deals.

Auditor capital markets desks

Audit engagement partners and accounting-firm capital markets groups use EX-23 consents and incorporated financials to verify how their firm and peers consent in MJDS filings, including PCAOB-versus-Canadian-standards references and dual-standards reporting. Pro forma and significant-subsidiary disclosures inform comfort-letter scoping for takedowns.

Equity, credit, and event-driven research

Equity analysts covering cross-listed names model dilution from secondary issuances and convertibles using the prospectus and offering terms. Credit desks read indenture exhibits, covenant summaries, and ranking disclosures when sizing new-issue allocations. Event-driven funds scan filings for capital-raise signals, MAC language, and selling-shareholder participation that drive trading around takedowns.

Rating agency analysts

Credit analysts at rating agencies update issuer ratings around new offerings using the description of securities, ranking and subordination, covenants, refinancing structure, and use of proceeds. The corpus supports calibration of notching and recovery assumptions across the Canadian cross-border population.

Transfer agents and indenture trustees

Operational counterparties confirm the terms of securities they will administer: denominations, transfer restrictions, redemption mechanics, record-date conventions, and CDS-DTC settlement arrangements. For debt deals they review trust indentures, supplemental indentures, and event-of-default provisions filed as exhibits.

Compliance and regulatory analysts

Compliance and surveillance teams at broker-dealers and SROs monitor MJDS issuance volumes and eligibility representations on the registration statement cover, tracking how the auto-effective pathway is used and whether registrants meet home-jurisdiction reporting conditions.

Financial data and AI providers

Data engineering teams and AI vendors ingest filer CIK, accession metadata, exhibit inventories, and Inline XBRL fee-table tags to build new-issue calendars, league-table reconstructions, and fee-pool analytics. The EX-FILING FEES exhibit is the structured anchor: it standardizes security-type classifications and aggregate offering amounts. RAG and LLM developers ground cross-border securities assistants on the prospectus and exhibit text.

Vendors building precedent-clause databases populate searchable libraries of MJDS underwriting agreements, opinions, and prospectus sections, surfacing clause-level comparisons for plan-of-distribution, taxation, eligibility, and enforcement-of-judgments language. Filer, date, exhibit type, and fee-data metadata drive faceted search.

Specific Use Cases

The Form F-10EF Files Dataset supports a small number of concrete cross-border capital markets workflows. Each use case below ties to specific record components — the registration statement body, named exhibit families, the EX-FILING FEES Inline XBRL document, or metadata.json fields.

Capital markets bankers at bulge-bracket and Canadian dealers query the corpus to find recent precedents for bought deals, ATM programs, and base-shelf debt takedowns by comparable Canadian issuers. They filter entities[].sic and stateOfIncorporation to narrow to peer subsectors (e.g., A6 Ontario gold miners or A1 Alberta E&P), then pull the prospectus body for greenshoe sizing, stabilization language, and use-of-proceeds, and read EX-1.1 underwriting agreements for gross spread grids, market-out triggers, and lock-up scope. Output is a structured precedent table feeding pitch books and term-sheet drafting.

MJDS eligibility and auto-effective pathway surveillance

Compliance analysts at broker-dealers and SRO surveillance teams monitor how MJDS auto-effectiveness is used. They iterate F-10EF accessions filed each month, extract MJDS basis statements and Rule 467(b) representations from the registration statement cover, and join them to entities[].fileNo lineage of 333-... shelves to detect issuers that lose 12-month reporting history or fall below float thresholds mid-shelf. The output is an exception list flagging eligibility risk before a takedown.

Prospectus clause and exhibit precedent extraction

Cross-border securities lawyers and underwriters' counsel build clause libraries from the prospectus and exhibits. They section-segment the F-10EF body to extract enforceability-of-judgments risk factors, plan-of-distribution mechanics, and Canadian-tax disclosure, and parse EX-5 validity opinions and EX-8 tax opinions for opinion qualifications, assumptions, and reliance language. Joined against documentFormatFiles[].type filters, the result is a faceted, firm-tagged template database used in drafting and negotiation.

Fee-table benchmarking via EX-FILING FEES Inline XBRL

Equity capital markets data teams and league-table providers extract ffd:-namespaced facts (ffd:FormTp, ffd:FeeRate, security type, proposed maximum aggregate offering price, offset amounts, prior 333- references) from the EX-FILING FEES Inline XBRL exhibit. Aggregating these across accessions produces normalized cross-border shelf-capacity, fee-pool, and carry-forward analytics by issuer, security type, and underwriter, and feeds new-issue calendars and league-table reconstructions without HTML scraping of the rendered fee table.

Audit firm capital markets desks and legal-research teams track which firms appear on which MJDS deals. They iterate EX-23.x consents to identify the issuer's auditor, predecessor auditor, and reserves or qualified-person experts (NI 43-101, NI 51-101), and EX-8.x tax opinions to identify Canadian and U.S. tax counsel. Combined with entities[].sic and filedAt, this produces firm-level market-share dashboards across the MJDS issuer population, used for pitch positioning and conflict checks.

Indenture and covenant analytics for credit research

Credit analysts and rating agency teams covering Canadian cross-border debt issuers parse EX-4.x indentures, supplemental indentures, and forms of note, plus EX-25 Form T-1 trustee statements. They extract ranking and subordination, restricted-payments baskets, change-of-control puts, negative-pledge carve-outs, and event-of-default thresholds, joined to co-registrant guarantor blocks in entities[] to map the guarantor perimeter. The output supports notching, recovery, and covenant-quality scoring for new-issue allocation and surveillance.

Legal-tech vendors and AI teams building cross-border securities copilots use the dataset as grounded training and retrieval material. They strip the SGML <DOCUMENT> envelope from each HTML, segment by exhibit type, and pair section text with structured anchors from metadata.json (form type, accession, filer CIK, file number, filing timestamp) and ffd: fee-table facts. The result is a labeled MJDS corpus for clause classifiers, prospectus-summarization models, and RAG indexes that answer questions about Canadian cross-border offerings with cited exhibit-level provenance.

Dataset Access

The Form F-10EF Files Dataset is available through three access methods: a metadata index API, a full dataset archive download, and per-container downloads. The dataset covers F-10EF filings from May 2007 to the present, packaged as monthly ZIP containers that hold a metadata JSON file plus the original EDGAR submission documents (HTML, TXT) for each accession number.

Dataset Index JSON API: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f10ef-files.json

This endpoint returns dataset-level metadata (name, description, last updated timestamp, earliest sample date, total record and size counters, form types covered, container format, and file types) along with the full list of monthly container files. Each container entry includes its key, size, record count, last updated timestamp, and a direct download URL. Poll this endpoint to detect which containers were refreshed in the latest run and fetch only those that changed. No API key is required to access the index.

Example response:

Example
1 {
2 "datasetId": "1f13365b-9ae0-6a4d-8e59-0490484b7be7",
3 "datasetDownloadUrl": "https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f10ef-files.zip",
4 "name": "Form F-10EF Files Dataset",
5 "updatedAt": "2026-05-05T02:48:21.984Z",
6 "earliestSampleDate": "2007-05-01",
7 "totalRecords": 231,
8 "totalSize": 2929581,
9 "formTypes": ["F-10EF"],
10 "containerFormat": "ZIP",
11 "fileTypes": ["HTML", "JSON", "TXT"],
12 "containers": [
13 {
14 "downloadUrl": "https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f10ef-files/2026/2026-03.zip",
15 "key": "2026/2026-03.zip",
16 "size": 13818783,
17 "records": 154,
18 "updatedAt": "2026-03-21T02:51:19.000Z"
19 }
20 ]
21 }

Download Entire Dataset: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f10ef-files.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY

Downloads the complete dataset as a single ZIP archive containing every monthly container from May 2007 onward. This endpoint requires a valid API key supplied via the token query parameter. The full archive is compact, so a one-shot download is practical for most use cases.

Download Single Container: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f10ef-files/2026/2026-03.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY

Each container is a monthly ZIP archive following the path pattern <YEAR>/<YEAR>-<MONTH>.zip. Use this endpoint to fetch only the months you need or to incrementally pull containers flagged as updated by the index API. This endpoint requires an API key supplied via the token query parameter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What form does this dataset cover?

The dataset covers Form F-10EF, the auto-effective variant of Form F-10. F-10EF is a Securities Act of 1933 registration statement filed by Canadian issuers eligible to use the MJDS, with effectiveness occurring immediately on filing under Rule 467(b) rather than awaiting SEC staff review.

What does one record in the Form F-10EF Files Dataset represent?

One record represents a single SEC accession — one F-10EF submission filed on EDGAR by a Canadian MJDS-eligible issuer. Each record is delivered as an accession-numbered folder that bundles the registration statement HTML, every text-bearing exhibit HTML, the Inline XBRL EX-FILING FEES exhibit (when required), and a metadata.json index that mirrors the EDGAR submission header.

Who is required to file Form F-10EF?

The filer is the Canadian issuer itself, acting as a foreign private issuer. Eligibility requires Canadian incorporation, foreign private issuer status under Rule 405, at least 12 months of Canadian reporting history with current continuous disclosure, and — for most equity offerings — a public float of at least US$75 million held by non-affiliates. Co-registrant guarantor subsidiaries may sign alongside the principal Canadian issuer for guaranteed-debt offerings.

What time period does the dataset cover?

EDGAR-based F-10EF records in this dataset begin in May 2007 and continue through the present, packaged as monthly ZIP containers.

What file format is the dataset distributed in?

The dataset is distributed as monthly ZIP containers. Each container expands into a flat directory of accession-numbered folders, each containing a metadata.json index and the SGML-wrapped HTML documents (registration statement, exhibits, and the Inline XBRL filing-fee exhibit when applicable). The dataset's declared file types are HTML, JSON, and TXT.

How does Form F-10EF differ from Form F-10?

Both forms share the same MJDS regime, the same eligible issuer population, and substantially identical prospectus content. The difference is procedural: a standard F-10 is filed for SEC staff review and becomes effective only upon SEC declaration under Rule 467(a), whereas F-10EF is auto-effective on filing under Rule 467(b). Most modern MJDS shelf registrations use F-10EF.

Why does the EX-FILING FEES exhibit matter for downstream consumers?

The EX-FILING FEES document is an Inline XBRL XHTML file that emits machine-readable ffd:-namespaced facts (form type, fee rate, security type, proposed maximum aggregate offering price, offset amounts, prior 333- references) under the SEC's Filing Fees Data taxonomy. Downstream extraction of fee-table data should rely on these XBRL facts rather than scraping the rendered HTML, because the facts are normalized and unambiguously typed. Earlier filings predating the EX-FILING FEES mandate carry only a calculation-of-registration-fee table on the registration statement cover and no separate Exhibit 107.