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Top 25 Merger and acquisition law firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 2,850 merger and acquisition law firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 84,139 professional contacts across them, including 46,530 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers merger and acquisition 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.
The 25 largest merger and acquisition law firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,540 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates delivers the highest quality advice and novel solutions to legal challenges, enabling clients to achieve their business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,667 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arnold & Porter combines sophisticated regulatory, litigation, and transactional capabilities to resolve clients’ most complex issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “High stakes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,041 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dechert is the law firm that helps business leaders lead.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,599 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clients have relied on the international law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP since 1912 as a trusted legal advisor and valued business partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,318 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 125 years, Quarles & Brady LLP has provided quality legal services to a wide range of industries on a national stage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 902 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For decades, we’ve positioned ourselves at the intersection of law, business and policy to bring a multidisciplinary strategy to every issue.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 864 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stoel Rives is a leading U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 834 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Fredrikson, we’ve built a reputation as the firm “where law and business meet” by bringing business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking to our work with clients, and by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 831 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have been an innovative and forward-thinking firm since day one.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 830 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Locke Lord and Troutman Pepper merged on January 1, 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 815 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1989, Hall Booth Smith, P.C.(HBS) is a full-service law firm with 33 offices across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 790 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We view the world from our clients’ perspectives, helping them to lead and innovate across industries and around the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 788 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Winstead is a leading Texas-based law firm with national practices serving clients across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 690 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kelley Drye is an AmLaw 200 law firm of more than 350 lawyers and other professionals practicing in New York, NY; Washington, D.C; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX, Los Angeles, CA; San…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 668 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On April 2, 2018, Hunton & Williams LLP and Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP combined to become Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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, 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 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 merger and acquisition law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of merger and acquisition law 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 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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Merger and acquisition law firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
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 2,850 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 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 “merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition 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, 46,530 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.
Merger and acquisition law firms by metro
- Merger and acquisition law firms in New York208
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Los Angeles91
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Chicago86
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Houston80
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Dallas66
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Atlanta65
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Washington60
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Miami52
- Merger and acquisition law firms in San Francisco52
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Denver45
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Austin44
- Merger and acquisition law firms in San Diego44
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Boston43
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Irvine34
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Seattle33
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Philadelphia32
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Charlotte29
- Merger and acquisition law firms in Minneapolis29
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 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 merger and acquisition law firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 2,850 merger and acquisition 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?
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP And Affiliates, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most merger and acquisition law firms?
New York leads with 208 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (91) and Chicago (86).
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 46,530 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,850 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.
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