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Top 25 Merger and acquisition firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 692 merger and acquisition firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 8,021 professional contacts across them, including 3,149 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers merger and acquisition firms headquartered in France, 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 20, 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 merger and acquisition firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 895 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eight Advisory, Europe's leading independent advisory firm specialising in financial, operational and strategy consulting, is involved in transactions, restructuring and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oderis provides specialized transaction and operational support and related services to a wide range of corporate and private equity clients since 2006.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exelmans est un Cabinet de conseil et d’audit spécialisé dans la due diligence financière.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A specialist in SMEs and mid-sized companies since 1928, Financière de Courcelles advises businesses and their shareholders on M&A transactions and financing solutions, in France…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Advance Capital est un cabinet indépendant de conseil financier fondé en 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2001, Axis alternatives advises and assists corporate and investment banks, asset managers, other financial institutions, and large corporates through management, studies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Amala Partners est une société de conseil en fusions-acquisitions indépendante.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ADVISO PARTNERS est une société de conseil financier indépendante spécialisée dans les opérations de fusion-acquisition, levée de fonds et ingénierie financière, dédiée au segment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Advention is an independent strategy advisory group with eighty professionals operating globally in an integrated manner through its fully-owned offices in Dubai, London, New…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2004, M&A Worldwide is one of the largest and top-performing global networks of M&A consultants in the world- 43 offices in 34 countries - 510 completed deals with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le réseau MS se construit et se développe, grâce et autour de vous, depuis plus de 20 ans sur un marché en constante évolution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SQUARENESS est un cabinet de conseil financier indépendant qui accompagne les entreprises et les fonds d’investissement dans leurs opérations de transactions, restructurations et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ACOM Corporate Finance est une société de conseil en « opérations haut de bilan », spécialisée sur le segment « Small Cap » de 2M€ à 100M€ de valorisation».” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clipperton is a leading international investment bank dedicated to technology and growth companies: we provide strategic and financial advisory to entrepreneurs, corporates, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M&A Advisory Firm M&A buy-side: Company acquisitions - Guiding companies in external growth strategies - Guiding private persons in acquisition processes M&A sell-side: Disposal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In Extenso Finance est un acteur de référence dans le conseil en stratégie et ingénierie nancière et dans l’accompagnement et la conduite d’opérations de cession, acquisition…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blanche Capital accompagne et conseille les dirigeants de TPE et PME dans leurs opérations de haut de bilan : cession, acquisition, rapprochement et levée de fonds.> Notre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EURALLIA FINANCE conseille les dirigeants et actionnaires de PME et d’ETI dans leurs opérations de cession, d’acquisition et de levée de fonds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Depuis 2003, Pax Corporate Finance accompagne sociétés et actionnaires dans leurs opérations de haut de bilan : LBO, cession, acquisitions, financement et refinancement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CEPTON offers a combination of strategy consulting and transaction advisory capabilities for over 20 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SAFIR conseille depuis 1993 les chefs d'entreprises et dirigeants dans la gestion de leur activité, mais également leur stratégie de croissance interne et externe (acquisitions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DDA & Company is a corporate finance advisory boutique specialized in cross-border small and mid-cap transactions with offices in Europe and in the USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AURIS Finance is a consulting firm in Mergers & Acquisitions and Financial Engineering Founded in AURIS Finance supports business leaders in their strategic thinking and their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transactions & Compagnie a été créé afin d’accompagner les entrepreneurs dans leurs réflexions stratégiques et dans leurs problématiques de réorganisation du capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2013, Eurvad* is an M&A boutique dedicated to advising and supporting corporate finance transactions for SMEs and ETIs: equity sale, acquisition, LBO, MBO, OBO, MBI and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of merger and acquisition firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name merger and acquisition 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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Merger and acquisition firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 692 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 merger and acquisition 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 3,149 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 20, 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.
Merger and acquisition firms by metro
- Merger and acquisition firms in Paris353
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 merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 692 merger and acquisition firms headquartered in France 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?
Eight Advisory, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most merger and acquisition firms?
Paris leads with 353 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (23) and Marseille (14).
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 3,149 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 692 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 20, 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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