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Top 25 Business brokerage firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,194 business brokerage firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 30,430 professional contacts across them, including 7,750 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers business brokerage firms worldwide, 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for business brokerage firms follow the table.
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 business brokerage firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,985 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OWN Realty is located on the American Riviera, more specifically, Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida, an area known as the second largest financial district in the United States…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 749 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transworld Business Advisors is the world leader in the marketing and sales of businesses, mergers and acquisitions, and franchises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 384 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sunbelt is the world’s largest business brokerage firm with approximately 250 licensed offices located throughout the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Selling a business is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M & am & m&a m&a” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Generational Equity has closed more deals in the middle market than any M&A firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First Choice Business Brokers assists small to medium size business owners in valuing their business and finding buyers; acting as a professional intermediary throughout the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Excellence in Business Transactions We are one of the largest and most successful firms specializing in Selling Businesses, Franchise Resales, Business Valuations, Machinery and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A igc partners é a assessoria de empresas líder em operações de venda total ou parcial e captação de recursos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LINK – Established in New Zealand in 1996, we sell businesses from $100k to $30million in New Zealand, Australia and USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STS Capital Partners is a global sell-side M&A firm like no other.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Sell Restaurants has carved an unparalleled niche in the industry as the nation's leading and only business broker franchise focused on restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VR specializes in the sale of privately held businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Proprietor's work supporting very small businesses in ownership transition has moved to the CEI Business Legacy Lab where we help existing businesses transfer to the next…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Progress Partners is a Boston and New York-based corporate advisory firm that works with buyers and sellers of emerging growth companies to complete M&A or private placement…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ABC Business Sales is New Zealand's most experienced business brokerage, with over 40 years in the industry and more than businesses sold worth over $4 billion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Viking Mergers & Acquisitions was founded by Brad and Jay Offerdahl in 1996, and, along with an experienced staff of professionals, they have taken the business to the top 2% of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2013, Calder Capital is a cross-industry mergers and acquisitions advisory firm with offices across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Altius Group, we’ve been helping businesses buy, grow and sell for over 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over 6,500 businesses sold since 1981!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le réseau MS se construit et se développe, grâce et autour de vous, depuis plus de 20 ans sur un marché en constante évolution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When it’s time to sell your company, hire the #1 firm in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gottesman Company: Your Trusted Partner in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Since 1985, Gottesman Company has been a leader in the M&A industry, recognized as one of the largest M&A…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Florida New Dream is well established in the marketing and sales of Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Agriculture and Businesses (including Franchises), so whether you are…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a UK specialist company, working with business owners looking to buy or sell a business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: business brokerage 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 business brokerage firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of business brokerage firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name business brokerage 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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Business brokerage firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business brokerage 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for business brokerage firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “business brokerage 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 business brokerage 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 business brokerage firms, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 7,750 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Business brokerage firms by location
20 lists · largest firstEvery Business brokerage firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Business brokerage firms based in the United States1,731
- Business brokerage firms based in the United Kingdom231
- Business brokerage firms based in France225
- Business brokerage firms based in Australia219
- Business brokerage firms based in Canada198
- Business brokerage firms based in the Netherlands130
- Business brokerage firms based in Germany106
- Business brokerage firms based in Brazil87
- Business brokerage firms based in Spain57
- Business brokerage firms based in Sweden38
- Business brokerage firms based in Switzerland36
- Business brokerage firms based in Belgium34
- Business brokerage firms based in New Zealand31
Cities
- Business brokerage firms based in New York, United States53
- Business brokerage firms based in Dallas, United States43
- Business brokerage firms based in Atlanta, United States42
- Business brokerage firms based in Houston, United States28
- Business brokerage firms based in San Diego, United States28
- Business brokerage firms based in Austin, United States26
- Business brokerage firms based in Chicago, United States25
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 business brokerage 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 business brokerage firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,194 business brokerage firms worldwide 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?
OWN, headquartered in Miami, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most business brokerage firms?
The United States leads with 1,731 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (231) and France (225). Every business brokerage firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most business brokerage firms?
London leads with 65 headquartered companies, followed by New York (53) and Paris (48).
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 7,750 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,194 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 19, 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.