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Top 25 Mergers and acquisitions law firms based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 432 mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 10,374 professional contacts across them, including 6,590 with verified work emails and 602 with mobile numbers. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in Australia, 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 5, 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 mergers and acquisitions law firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,667 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MinterEllison is one of Australia’s largest independent law and consulting firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,506 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gilbert + Tobin was founded on values of excellence, trust, respect, integrity and good corporate citizenship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 478 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Johnson Winter Slattery (JWS) is a leading Australian law firm known for advising corporates and funds on their most complex transactions, disputes and regulatory matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a corporate and commercial law firm, based in Australia and New Zealand, Hamilton Locke transforms the traditional approach to corporate legal services, removing bureaucracy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Macpherson Kelley is a Commercial law firm that thinks differently - our lawyers possess a rare combination of commercial acumen, legal ingenuity, and human insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Cornwalls is one of Australia’s oldest and most respected independent law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cowell Clarke is a full-service, national commercial law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blake Dawson is now Ashurst.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a proven history of strong performance, we have established a reputation for being leaders in law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our ability to exceed client expectations has led to our success in a range of services embracing all aspects of business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A law firm with dedication, expertise and commitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kain Lawyers are Transaction Specialists, advising in Private and Public M&A, Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, Investment Funds, Property, Projects & Real Assets and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 50 years, Madgwicks has been part of Melbourne's business landscape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A refreshingly different kind of law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are legal and regulatory advisors who achieve extraordinary outcomes for clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Henry Davis York combined with Norton Rose Fulbright on December 1, 2017.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MST Lawyers is a mid-tier premier law firm based in Mount Waverley, Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Going beyond We are a leading South Australian commercial law firm delivering value to businesses since 2002 through our core services of corporate, transactions and disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SBA Law is a specialist commercial law firm, comprised of industry-leading lawyers with many years of experience delivering expert legal advice to some of Australia’s most…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kardos Scanlan is a specialist corporate law firm servicing the Australian mid-market in domestic and cross-border transactions and disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Luminis Partners specialises in providing the highest quality of independent, conflict-free advice to major corporations, governments and institutions on strategy, mergers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CMN is committed to high standards of service and continued excellence in the practice of law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re the people who power your business forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over more than three decades, InterFinancial has built a reputation as one of Australia’s leading corporate advisory firms specialising in M&A, capital raising and growth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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: mergers and acquisitions 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 mergers and acquisitions law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of mergers and acquisitions law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name mergers and acquisitions 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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Mergers and acquisitions law firms based in Australia at a glance
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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 mergers and acquisitions 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 Australia whose own description of what they do matches “mergers and acquisitions 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 mergers and acquisitions 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 mergers and acquisitions law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia 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, 6,590 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 5, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 mergers and acquisitions 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 mergers and acquisitions law firms are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 432 mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in Australia 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?
Minterellison, headquartered in Australia, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most mergers and acquisitions law firms?
Sydney leads with 151 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (71) and Brisbane (27).
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 6,590 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 432 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 5, 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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