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Top 25 Company sale consulting firms based in the United States

Name: Company sale consulting firms based in the United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026 2,976 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 2,976 company sale consulting firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 26,207 professional contacts across them, including 11,077 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers company sale consulting firms headquartered in the 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 21, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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26,207Contacts tracked

11,077Verified emails

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The 25 largest company sale consulting firms based in the United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 2,976 company sale consulting firms based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to company sale consulting 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Lincoln International	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,489 contacts →
	Indirect 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 21, 2026
2	Riveron	Indirect evidence	Dallas, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,160 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “With over 1,200 professionals across 18 international offices, Riveron delivers tailored solutions for CFOs, private equity firms, and key stakeholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3	Transworld Business Advisors	Partial evidence	West Palm Beach, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	749 contacts →
	Partial 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 21, 2026
4	Greenhill & CO	Indirect evidence	New York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	625 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Greenhill & Co, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5	Benchmark International	Indirect evidence	Tampa, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	503 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Benchmark International is a global M&A firm that provides business owners with creative, value-maximizing solutions for growing and exiting their businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6	Solomon Partners	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	427 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Solomon Partners is a leading investment bank – one of the first independent firms in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7	Sunbelt Business Brokers	Indirect evidence	Independence, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	384 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Sunbelt is the world’s largest business brokerage firm with approximately 250 licensed offices located throughout the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8	Sellside Group, LLC	Indirect evidence	Dallas, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	339 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Selling a business is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9	Capstone Partners	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	276 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For over 20 years, Capstone Partners has been a trusted advisor to leading middle market companies, offering a fully integrated range of investment banking and financial advisory…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10	Generational Equity, LLC	Indirect evidence	Richardson, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	267 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Generational Equity has closed more deals in the middle market than any M&A firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11	First Choice Business Brokers	Indirect evidence	Las Vegas, NV, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	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 21, 2026
12	Brown Gibbons Lang & Company BGL	Indirect evidence	Cleveland, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	207 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on the global middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13	Livingstone	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	207 contacts →
	Indirect 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 21, 2026
14	LCG Advisors	Indirect evidence	Tampa, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	181 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Maximizing Value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15	Portage Point Partners	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	173 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Portage Point is a business advisory, interim management and investment banking firm intensely focused on the middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16	Corum Group LTD	Indirect evidence	Bothell, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	139 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17	Chartwell Financial Advisory	Indirect evidence	Minneapolis, MN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	128 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “You make decisions every day that impact the lives of many people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18	CDI Global M&a	Indirect evidence	Chicago, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	118 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “CDI Global, established in 1973, is a leader in middle-market, cross-border transactions with over transactions to our credit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19	Corporate Finance Associates	Indirect evidence	Aliso Viejo, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	110 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Corporate Finance Associates Worldwide (CFAW) is a premier international investment banking firm dedicated to serving middle-market businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20	Progress Partners	Indirect evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	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 21, 2026
21	Oaklins	Indirect evidence	New York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	110 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are global M&A and financial advisory professionals, determined to help ambitious entrepreneurs and evolving companies reach their full potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22	Ducera Partners LLC	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	99 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Ducera Partners is a leading investment banking advisory practice focused on providing trusted, independent advice and innovative solutions to decision makers in complex and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23	IMAP	Indirect evidence	Wilmington, DE, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	99 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “IMAP has been guiding business owners and investors in M&A and corporate finance advisory transactions since 1973.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24	Viking Mergers & Acquisitions	Indirect evidence	Charlotte, NC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	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 21, 2026
25	Calder Capital	Indirect evidence	Grand Rapids, MI, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	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 21, 2026

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: company sale consulting 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 company sale consulting firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of company sale consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name company sale consulting 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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Company sale consulting firms based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026

42.3%Verified-email coverage

8.8Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

6.8%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

2,263

11-50

592

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 2,976 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 company sale consulting 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “company sale consulting 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 company sale consulting 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 company sale consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 11,077 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 21, 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.

Company sale consulting firms by metro

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 company sale consulting 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 company sale consulting firms are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 2,976 company sale consulting firms headquartered in the 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 company sale consulting firms?

New York leads with 201 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (89) and Chicago (80).

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 11,077 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,976 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 21, 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.