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Top 25 Deal counsel law firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 138 deal counsel law firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 10,845 professional contacts across them, including 7,276 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (654 companies); San Francisco has 138.
This list covers deal counsel law firms headquartered in San Francisco, 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 29, 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 deal counsel law firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,066 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Orrick is a global law firm focused on serving the Technology & Innovation, Energy & Infrastructure, Finance and Life Sciences & HealthTech sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,846 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the only full-service law firm with offices and attorneys in all 50 states, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani delivers maximum value to our clients by combining the resources of a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,667 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rimon is a highly selective entrepreneurial firm that combines the dynamic client service, teamwork and agility of a high-end boutique law firm with the deep multidisciplinary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Farella Braun + Martel LLP is a leading Northern California law firm representing corporate and private clients in sophisticated business and real estate transactions and complex…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Like most respected firms, we have many ways to tout our skill, our experience, and our results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Scale LLP is a national, full-service law firm designed for modern business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shartsis Friese LLP is one of San Francisco’s leading law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Some of the largest companies in the world, and some of the wealthiest families in America, value and respect the service, creativity, and commitment of the attorneys of Sideman &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bartko LLP is a mid-size firm dedicated to strategic representation of clients in California, nationally and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From inception, SSL has embraced an innovative law firm model that has enabled us to provide extraordinary service to our clients at lower hourly rates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ComCap was founded in 2012 to provide financial and strategic advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, and financings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 48 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, P.C, is a San Francisco law firm with leading national and international practices, representing entities and individuals across a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We advise companies and founders on cross-border structuring, M&A transactions, tax strategies and compliance matters in the US.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a boutique full-service law firm based in San Francisco, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We act as outside general counsel to venture-backed tech startups and the investors that fund them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The lawyers at HUGO PARKER have a winning record at trial, providing clients with sound strategic advice and skilled trial and appellate representation before state and federal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inventus is an innovative global law firm which provides superior legal services to entrepreneurs, startups, and mid-sized companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “de la Peña & Holiday is an established and growing national full-service litigation and transactional law firm with an office in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Valla Morrison & Schachne Inc, P.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On April 28, 2025, the attorneys and staff of Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP joined Beveridge & Diamond, PC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to SPZ Legal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Emran Law Firm represents an array of clients with a host of diverse business and legal needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: deal counsel 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 deal counsel law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of deal counsel law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name deal counsel 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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Deal counsel law firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 138 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 deal counsel 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “deal counsel 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 deal counsel 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 deal counsel law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco 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, 7,276 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 29, 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.
Deal counsel law firms by metro in the United States
- Deal counsel law firms in New York654
- Deal counsel law firms in Chicago298
- Deal counsel law firms in Los Angeles258
- Deal counsel law firms in Houston209
- Deal counsel law firms in Dallas191
- Deal counsel law firms in Atlanta186
- Deal counsel law firms in Miami175
- Deal counsel law firms in Washington133
- Deal counsel law firms in San Diego127
- Deal counsel law firms in Boston124
- Deal counsel law firms in Denver114
- Deal counsel law firms in Austin111
- Deal counsel law firms in Philadelphia96
- Deal counsel law firms in Seattle94
- Deal counsel law firms in Tampa81
- Deal counsel law firms in Irvine79
- Deal counsel law firms in Minneapolis70
- Deal counsel law firms in Portland67
- Deal counsel law firms in Phoenix66
- Deal counsel law firms in Charlotte65
- Deal counsel law firms in Coral Gables63
- Deal counsel law firms in Fort Lauderdale63
- Deal counsel law firms in Columbus55
- Deal counsel law firms in Nashville52
- Deal counsel law firms in Orlando51
- Deal counsel law firms in Pittsburgh50
- Deal counsel law firms in Cleveland48
- Deal counsel law firms in Wilmington48
- Deal counsel law firms in San Antonio47
- Deal counsel law firms in Birmingham46
- Deal counsel law firms in New Orleans46
- Deal counsel law firms in Baltimore45
- Deal counsel law firms in Raleigh44
- Deal counsel law firms in Boca Raton42
- Deal counsel law firms in Indianapolis41
- Deal counsel law firms in Salt Lake City40
- Deal counsel law firms in Jacksonville38
- Deal counsel law firms in Scottsdale38
- Deal counsel law firms in Newport Beach37
- Deal counsel law firms in Fort Worth36
- Deal counsel law firms in Kansas City34
- Deal counsel law firms in Las Vegas34
- Deal counsel law firms in Milwaukee34
- Deal counsel law firms in Pasadena34
- Deal counsel law firms in Sacramento34
- Deal counsel law firms in Beverly Hills33
- Deal counsel law firms in San Jose32
- Deal counsel law firms in Columbia31
- Deal counsel law firms in Oklahoma City31
- Deal counsel law firms in Tulsa31
- Deal counsel law firms in Richmond29
- Deal counsel law firms in Detroit26
- Deal counsel law firms in Omaha26
- Deal counsel law firms in Santa Monica26
- Deal counsel law firms in Boulder25
- Deal counsel law firms in Louisville25
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 deal counsel 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 deal counsel law firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 138 deal counsel law firms headquartered in San Francisco, 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?
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most deal counsel law firms?
New York leads the United States with 654 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (298) and Los Angeles (258). San Francisco has 138.
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 7,276 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 138 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 29, 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.