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Top 25 Hedge fund formation law firms worldwide

RevenueBase identified 244 hedge fund formation law firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 4,061 professional contacts across them, including 2,585 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.

This list covers hedge fund formation law 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 28, 2026. Country and city lists for hedge fund formation law 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
244Companies
4,061Contacts tracked
2,585Verified emails
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The 25 largest hedge fund formation law firms worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 244 hedge fund formation law firms worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to hedge fund formation law firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceGeorge Town, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261,001-5,0002,754 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Maples Group is a leading service provider offering clients a comprehensive range of legal services on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-200113 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Described as “Wall Street’s best-kept secret” (US Legal 500), Kleinberg Kaplan is a premier boutique law firm that provides practical, business-minded legal counsel to investors…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-200102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Since its founding in 1929, Masuda Funai has focused its practice on successfully representing international and domestic companies entering, operating and expanding in the United…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4Partial evidenceNew York, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5063 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Harry Jho LLC is a boutique law firm specializing in the areas of OTC derivatives, Prime Brokerage, and Securities Finance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5054 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Sadis & Goldberg LLP we pride ourselves on delivering legal services that are tailored to drive business success.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5048 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP is a leading investment management law firm known for providing top-tier, innovative, and collaborative legal solutions for complex financial services…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7Indirect evidenceMontevideo, UruguayHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“First Legal Family Office of the Americas Un enfoque fresco e innovador en planificación patrimonial y fondos de inversión.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8Partial evidenceStockholm, SwedenHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5031 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Harvest Advokatbyrå offers comprehensive legal services to banks, fund managers, investment firms, insurance companies, product providers, insurance intermediaries and other…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9Strong evidenceCentral, Hong KongHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5027 contacts →

Strong evidence

“AYASA Globo Financial Services is a “one-stop” platform that provides comprehensive and total solutions to hedge funds, private equities, family offices, brokers and financial…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10Strong evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5023 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Orbit offers client-centered legal advice in all areas of fund law and investments in alternative assets.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5021 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PMW is a corporate law firm with offices in New York and North Carolina.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12Strong evidenceGeorge Town, Cayman IslandsHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5021 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Loeb Smith Attorneys is one of the leading offshore corporate law firms considered one of the most active and knowledgeable firms for advising on offshore investment funds…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13Partial evidenceUnited StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1020 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Investment Management Law Firm”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14Partial evidenceSacramento, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5019 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Krogh & Decker, LLP is a Sacramento law firm dedicated to supporting businesses and entrepreneurs in their ongoing business needs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15Strong evidenceLiverpool Street, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5014 contacts →

Strong evidence

“OSMO Partners’ expert team of sector professionals extends and strengthens hedge fund operations.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16Partial evidenceSan Mateo, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5013 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Corporate counsel for funds, startups, and small companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17Indirect evidenceAustin, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“For more than 20 years, thousands of founders, investors, and operators in Austin, Texas and around the world have trusted the attorneys at JonesSpross to help them build, buy…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“King Irving provides specialist legal, consulting, and operational expertise spanning the finance industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19Indirect evidenceUnited StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Drohan Lee attorneys’ areas of expertise include securities and commodities regulation, derivatives transactions, investment due diligence, international and U.S.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20Partial evidenceMadrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5013 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Alter Legal is a Spanish boutique law firm that offers full legal advice to domestic and international financial institutions, family groups and investors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5011 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Florio Leahy LLP ("Florio Leahy") is a full service investment management law firm with over 100 clients in the U.S.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22Indirect evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23Strong evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“HedgeLegal is a boutique law firm providing advice and negotiation services for complex trading and financing documentation for hedge funds, family offices and sell-side firms.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24Indirect evidenceSydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Practical legal insights.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25Indirect evidenceMont St Aignan, FranceHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Levée de fonds, restructuration juridique, management package, transmission d'entreprise, patrimonial, création de sociétés”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

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Hedge fund formation law firms worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026
63.7%Verified-email coverage
16.6Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
9.8%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
194
11-50
43
51-200
5
201-500
1
1,001-5,000
1

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 hedge fund formation 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.
Coverage
Every country. Country and city lists for hedge fund formation law firms are linked below.
What qualifies
Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “hedge fund formation 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 hedge fund formation 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 hedge fund formation law 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, 2,585 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 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Hedge fund formation law firms by location

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Every Hedge fund formation law firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.

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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 hedge fund formation 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 hedge fund formation law firms are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 244 hedge fund formation law 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?

Maples Group, headquartered in George Town Grand Cayman, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which country has the most hedge fund formation law firms?

The United States leads with 136 companies. Every hedge fund formation law firms list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most hedge fund formation law firms?

New York leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (5) and Chicago (5).

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 2,585 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 244 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 28, 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.