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Top 25 Management buyout law firms based in the United States

Name: Management buyout law firms based in the United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 1,505 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,505 management buyout law firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 57,148 professional contacts across them, including 34,434 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers management buyout law 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 28, 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 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest management buyout law firms based in the United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,505 management buyout law firms based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to management buyout 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Kirkland & Ellis	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	5,001-10,000	8,449 contacts →
	Partial evidence “As one of the world’s leading law firms, we serve a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Gibson Dunn	Partial evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	3,735 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	Paul Hastings	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	3,045 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “With widely recognized elite teams in finance, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, restructuring and special situations, litigation, employment and real estate, Paul Hastings…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP	Partial evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,577 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a global law firm of more than 1,500 lawyers focused on helping clients navigate their most complex legal and business challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Proskauer Rose LLP	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,096 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are 800+ lawyers serving clients from offices located in the leading financial and business centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Dechert LLP	Partial evidence	Philadelphia, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,041 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Dechert is the law firm that helps business leaders lead.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP	Partial evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,949 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Pillsbury is one of the world’s foremost law firms, operating at the intersection of technology innovation, capital and government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8	Venable LLP	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,790 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Committed to Your Success – As a law firm of more than 900 professionals, Venable delivers legal services globally in every area of regulatory compliance, government affairs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	Vinson & Elkins	Partial evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,693 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Vinson & Elkins is a law firm of global distinction, working with leading companies on wide-ranging matters in key industries across the economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Ballard Spahr LLP	Partial evidence	Philadelphia, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,682 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Ballard Spahr LLP, an Am Law 100 law firm with more than 750 lawyers in 19 U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	Fried Frank	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	1,584 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP advises the world's leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions on their most critical legal needs and business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	Haynes And Boone, LLP	Partial evidence	Dallas, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,558 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Haynes Boone is among the fastest-growing firms in the Am Law 100, providing full-service counsel across sectors, including corporate, energy, financial services, real estate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,495 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Katten is a full-service law firm with nearly 650 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	MINTZ	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,326 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Mintz is a full-service law firm serving clients in the life sciences, energy, private equity, and technology industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Snell & Wilmer	Partial evidence	Phoenix, AZ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	1,219 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 500 lawyers practicing in 17 locations throughout the United States and in Mexico.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Parker POE Adams & Bernstein LLP	Indirect evidence	Charlotte, NC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	584 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Businesses and local governments turn to Parker Poe to structure transactions, navigate regulations, and resolve disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Bass, Berry & Sims	Partial evidence	Nashville, TN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	573 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Bass, Berry & Sims is an independent, nationally recognized law firm dedicated to helping clients go confidently through complex legal challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Chapman And Cutler LLP	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	565 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Chapman is a law firm focused on finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Amundsen Davis, LLC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	542 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Amundsen Davis is a law firm comprised of over 250 attorneys headquartered in Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Miles & Stockbridge P.C	Partial evidence	Baltimore, MD, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	472 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Miles & Stockbridge is an Am Law 200 law firm with more than 200 lawyers and offices in Maryland, Washington, D.C, Virginia and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Mcdonald Hopkins LLC	Partial evidence	Cleveland, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	402 contacts →
	Partial evidence “McDonald Hopkins is an entrepreneurial law firm founded in 1930 on practical Midwestern business values that are as relevant today as when we first began.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Varnum LLP	Indirect evidence	Grand Rapids, MI, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	382 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Varnum empowers business leaders to venture confidently with actionable legal counsel spanning the boardroom, courtroom, and private legal matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP	Partial evidence	Cleveland, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	355 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1920, Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP is a full-service law firm with offices in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Naples, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Tampa and Orlando, Florida; San…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Stevens & LEE	Indirect evidence	Reading, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	354 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Stevens & Lee is the cornerstone of The Stevens & Lee Companies, a platform of affiliated professional service firms which provides a full range of legal, investment banking…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Gray Reed	Partial evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	314 contacts →
	Partial evidence “As a full-service Texas law firm with a comprehensive range of litigation and transactional practice groups, Gray Reed's 150 attorneys focus on understanding our clients'…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: management buyout 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 management buyout law firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of management buyout law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name management buyout 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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Management buyout law firms based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

60.3%Verified-email coverage

38.0Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

9.2%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

1,069

11-50

320

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

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 1,505 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 management buyout 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “management buyout 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 management buyout 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 management buyout law 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, 34,434 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: 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.

Management buyout law 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 management buyout 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 management buyout law firms are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 1,505 management buyout law 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?

Kirkland & Ellis, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most management buyout law firms?

New York leads with 138 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (61) and Houston (54).

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 34,434 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,505 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.