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Top 25 Merger and acquisition firms based in Los Angeles, United States

Name: Merger and acquisition firms based in Los Angeles, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 130 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 130 merger and acquisition firms headquartered in Los Angeles, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,572 professional contacts across them, including 2,617 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers merger and acquisition firms headquartered in Los Angeles, 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 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

130Companies

5,572Contacts tracked

2,617Verified emails

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The 25 largest merger and acquisition firms based in Los Angeles, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 130 merger and acquisition firms based in Los Angeles, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to merger and acquisition 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	Houlihan Lokey	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	3,576 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Houlihan Lokey, Inc.(NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	Bellwether	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	308 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bellwether is the trusted advisory partner to global institutional real estate investors, acting as a force multiplier for their internal teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	B. Riley Financial	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	296 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “About B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	Private Client & CO	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	n/a	135 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Transaction Advisory Private Client & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	Imperial Capital, LLC	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	130 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Imperial Capital, founded in 1997, is a full-service investment bank with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Milan, Stamford, Palm Beach, Houston, Boston, and Tel Aviv.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Intrepid Investment Bankers	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	127 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Intrepid is an investment bank focusing on M&A and capital advisory services for middle market companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	Palm Tree LLC	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	85 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Palm Tree is the modern M&A advisor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	Xnergy	Strong evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	42 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Xnergy Financial, Member FINRA/ SIPC, is an international investment banking firm providing debt and equity and merger and acquisition services to emerging growth and middle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	Actionist Consulting	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Actionist is a premier business consultancy that serves Fortune 500 players, top investment firms, and high-growth disruptors across strategic planning, growth management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Salem Partners LLC	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Los Angeles based Investment / Merchant Bank and Wealth Management Firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	M&a Business Advisors	Partial evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	39 contacts →
	Partial evidence “M&A Business Advisors is a full-service Business Brokerage and Lower Middle Market M&A Advisory Firm and the Leader in Business Sales & Acquisitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	Growthink	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Growthink provides strategic advisory and investment banking services to forward-looking companies and organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Cappello Group, INC	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For over 51 years, the principals of Cappello Global, LLC and its affiliates have been providing innovative investment banking services to public and private companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	Paladin	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Paladin is a middle-market advisory firm that helps businesses unlock value and navigate change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Iconic	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	30 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Iconic makes selling your business smooth, efficient, and certain by providing a transparent and professional process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Black Legend Capital	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2011 by senior bankers from Merrill Lynch and Duff & Phelps, Black Legend Capital is a global M&A advisory firm that also acts as a principal in select transactions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Ktbs LAW LLP F K A Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “KTBS Law LLP (formerly known as Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP) is a premier boutique law firm focusing on corporate and municipal restructuring, corporate finance, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Horatius Group	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	24 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Horatius Group supports founders, families, and business owners maximize the value of their privately held businesses with sell-side advisory, buy-side search, capital raising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	The Sage Group, LLC US	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in The Sage Group is an independent investment bank that provides corporate finance advice to premium branded consumer and retail companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	MJC Partners	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “MJC Partners, LLC (“MJC”) is an independent investment banking firm that offers a full range of strategic, transactional, and valuation-related services to our clients across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Impact Capital Group	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Impact Capital Group is a professional M&A transaction, valuation, and strategic advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Diamond Capital Advisors	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Diamond Capital Advisors is an investment bank headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	Agra Capital	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “AGRA Capital Advisor's is a merchant banking and private investment advisory firm servicing small and middle market clients on a wide range of corporate finance transactions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	Buxbaum	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Buxbaum HCS provides institutional-grade financial leadership, M&A advisory, and outsourced back-office execution for privately-owned middle-market companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	Sovdoc	Indirect evidence	Los Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SovDoc is an advisory firm founded by ex-healthcare private equity investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: 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 Los Angeles, United States at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

47.0%Verified-email coverage

42.9Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

376.9%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

1,001-5,000

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Los Angeles, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Los Angeles, over 130 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 Los Angeles, United States 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 Los Angeles 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, 2,617 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 in the United States

Merger and acquisition firms in New York490
Merger and acquisition firms in Chicago161
Merger and acquisition firms in Los Angeles130
Merger and acquisition firms in Atlanta129
Merger and acquisition firms in Houston116
Merger and acquisition firms in Dallas103
Merger and acquisition firms in Boston79
Merger and acquisition firms in Miami78
Merger and acquisition firms in San Francisco71
Merger and acquisition firms in Denver67
Merger and acquisition firms in Austin60
Merger and acquisition firms in Charlotte56
Merger and acquisition firms in Washington46
Merger and acquisition firms in San Diego45
Merger and acquisition firms in Minneapolis41
Merger and acquisition firms in Tampa39
Merger and acquisition firms in Irvine34
Merger and acquisition firms in Phoenix34
Merger and acquisition firms in Scottsdale33
Merger and acquisition firms in Newport Beach32
Merger and acquisition firms in Raleigh28
Merger and acquisition firms in Philadelphia27
Merger and acquisition firms in Seattle27
Merger and acquisition firms in Boca Raton26
Merger and acquisition firms in Cleveland25
Merger and acquisition firms in New York City25

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 Los Angeles, United States?

RevenueBase identified 130 merger and acquisition firms headquartered in Los Angeles, 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?

Houlihan Lokey, headquartered in Los Angeles, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most merger and acquisition firms?

New York leads with 490 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (161) and Los Angeles (130).

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 2,617 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 130 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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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.