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Top 25 Big six law firms based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 577 big six law firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 25,530 professional contacts across them, including 16,379 with verified work emails and 1,299 with mobile numbers. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers big six law firms headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 23, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest big six law firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,667 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MinterEllison is one of Australia’s largest independent law and consulting firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,901 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Allens is a leading international law firm with a long and proud heritage of shaping the future for our clients, our people and the communities in which we work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,787 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are one of Australia's oldest and largest law firms, with offices in six cities, nearly 200 partners, and a full range of legal services for large private sector and government…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,506 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gilbert + Tobin was founded on values of excellence, trust, respect, integrity and good corporate citizenship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creating value for clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,061 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mills Oakley is a leading full-service national law firm with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide and Darwin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 925 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’ve come a long way since our doors first opened in the Hunter in 1882.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 816 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thomson Geer is a major Australian corporate law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 804 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maddocks is Australia's law firm with offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 697 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Moray & Agnew is a national law firm of over 110 Partners and over 800 people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 552 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Holding Redlich, great law is our starting point.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 478 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Johnson Winter Slattery (JWS) is a leading Australian law firm known for advising corporates and funds on their most complex transactions, disputes and regulatory matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 357 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Offering quality advice to protect clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a corporate and commercial law firm, based in Australia and New Zealand, Hamilton Locke transforms the traditional approach to corporate legal services, removing bureaucracy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Macpherson Kelley is a Commercial law firm that thinks differently - our lawyers possess a rare combination of commercial acumen, legal ingenuity, and human insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McCabes is an ambitious and growing law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 195 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers is one of Queensland’s largest independent law firms, servicing clients with a local, national and international presence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since being founded more than 75 years ago, we have become Australia’s most trusted intellectual property firm with offices across the country and a well-established presence in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hunt & Hunt is a leading mid-sized Australian law firm that provides tailored legal advice to clients nationally and internationally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Cornwalls is one of Australia’s oldest and most respected independent law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Intellectual property has always been about protecting and safeguarding a client’s most precious and valuable assets – their ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an Approved Quality Practice (Law Society of Western Australia) and are proud of our reputation for commitment to client service focusing on the needs of private clients…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Carter Newell, we are an authentic, inclusive, and sustainable firm that develops people with specialist legal and industry expertise who in turn help clients make informed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LK has a unique combination of expertise and resources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: big six law firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names big six law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of big six law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name big six law firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Big six law firms based in Australia at a glance
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Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among big six law firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “big six law firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names big six law firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among big six law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 16,379 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 23, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names big six law firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many big six law firms are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 577 big six law firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Minterellison, headquartered in Australia, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most big six law firms?
Sydney leads with 161 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (91) and Brisbane (30).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 16,379 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 577 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 23, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.