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Top 25 Capital structure advisory firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 111 capital structure advisory firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,242 professional contacts across them, including 1,485 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers capital structure advisory firms headquartered in Chicago, United States, 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.
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 capital structure advisory firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,489 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lincoln International, Inc.(NYSE: LCLN) is a trusted investment banking advisor to business owners and senior executives of leading private equity firms and their portfolio…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Loop Capital is a full-service investment bank, brokerage and advisory firm that provides creative capital solutions for corporate, governmental, and institutional entities across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Livingstone is an international mid-market M&A and debt advisory firm with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Madrid…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Portage Point is a business advisory, interim management and investment banking firm intensely focused on the middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PMCF is a middle market investment bank that provides merger and acquisitions advisory services to individual and family-owned businesses, large public companies, and private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Peakstone is the trusted partner and leading force in the lower middle market U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Houlihan Capital is a leading, solutions-driven valuation, financial advisory and investment banking firm committed to delivering superior client value and thought leadership in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DSI is a leading provider of management consulting and financial advisory services, including turnaround consulting, financial restructure, litigation support and forensic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cook M&A is recognized as one of the leading buy side M&A advisory firms in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Warrior Group exists to provide entrepreneurs and growing businesses with the necessary tools and strategic insights to achieve their goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CMD Global Partners is an international boutique investment banking firm offering a vast set of capabilities to a broad range of publicly-traded and privately-owned companies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Helios Healthcare Advisors is an independent corporate advisory firm that provides strategic and financial advice on mergers & acquisitions, recapitalizations, and private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Auctus Capital Partners is a leading financial services and investment banking firm focused exclusively on creating value for the lower middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “After 15 successful years, The Chicago Corporation (TCC) will be winding down operations at year end 2024.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ravinia Capital LLC is a Chicago-based boutique investment bank providing M&A and capital investment banking services to middle-market companies with revenues from $25 million to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Davis Capital is a transaction driven firm and focuses on creating, initiating, negotiating, structuring, and closing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, management buyouts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In July 2025, MorrisAnderson Limited was acquired by J.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Areida Group brings an institutional approach to advising companies and personalizes the experience for each client.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elmcore Securities is a member FINRA/SIPC investment bank headquartered in Chicago, IL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Balmoral Advisors is an independent, specialty investment bank dedicated to providing mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, and financial restructuring advisory services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Complex business challenges require a proven team of skilled professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Artemis is a lower middle market investment banking firm specializing in the sale of privately held business as well as assisting in financing growth and executing acquisitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CFO Simplified is a Chicago-area consulting firm specializing in small to mid-sized businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Triton Capital Partners provides creative, practical and affordable investment and merchant banking solutions to privately held middle market companies.” 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: capital structure advisory 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 capital structure advisory firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of capital structure advisory firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name capital structure advisory 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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Capital structure advisory firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 111 companies.
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 capital structure advisory 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 Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “capital structure advisory 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 capital structure advisory 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 capital structure advisory firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago 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, 1,485 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.
Capital structure advisory firms by metro in the United States
- Capital structure advisory firms in New York540
- Capital structure advisory firms in Los Angeles121
- Capital structure advisory firms in Chicago111
- Capital structure advisory firms in Houston96
- Capital structure advisory firms in Miami94
- Capital structure advisory firms in Atlanta82
- Capital structure advisory firms in Dallas82
- Capital structure advisory firms in San Francisco62
- Capital structure advisory firms in Boston55
- Capital structure advisory firms in Austin45
- Capital structure advisory firms in Charlotte45
- Capital structure advisory firms in Denver44
- Capital structure advisory firms in San Diego36
- Capital structure advisory firms in Tampa36
- Capital structure advisory firms in Newport Beach35
- Capital structure advisory firms in Washington35
- Capital structure advisory firms in Philadelphia26
- Capital structure advisory firms in Nashville25
- Capital structure advisory firms in Scottsdale25
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 capital structure advisory 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 capital structure advisory firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 111 capital structure advisory firms headquartered in Chicago, United States 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?
Lincoln International, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most capital structure advisory firms?
New York leads with 540 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (121) and Chicago (111).
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 1,485 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 111 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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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.
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