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Top 25 Mergers and acquisitions law firms based in Nigeria
RevenueBase identified 204 mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026 and tracks 1,842 professional contacts across them, including 526 with verified work emails. Lagos is the largest hub.
This list covers mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in Nigeria, 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 14, 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 Nigeria
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 304 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 60 years of experience, Olaniwun Ajayi LP is Nigeria’s premier global corporate law firm, renowned for handling the largest and most complex transactions across key…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ǼLEX is a full service commercial & dispute resolution law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jackson, Etti & Edu is a leading full-service commercial law firm with a sector focus, rendering services to a broad spectrum of local and international clients in diverse areas…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AJUMOGOBIA & OKEKE (“A&O”, “We” or the “Firm”) is a leading full service commercial law firm with its head office in Lagos, Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “George Etomi & Partners (GE & P) was established in Lagos in 1984, and has rapidly grown to become one of the foremost commercial law firms in the country with offices…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “On the 12th day of February 2007, Bloomfield was established in Lagos, Nigeria as a specialist commercial law firm for those who expect more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wigwe & Partners (W&P) is a one-stop Commercial/Corporate savvy full-service Law firm with legal expertise on a broad spectrum of practice areas, configured to effectively cover a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Firm commenced business in January as a legal consulting firm with a bias for Corporate Commercial Law, Foreign Investment and Banking & Finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “THE METROPOLITAN LAW FIRM is a multi-specialist law firm that provides corporate legal services and consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Funmi Roberts & Co.(FRC) was established in 1989.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deal HQ Partners, a boutique transaction advisory firm, provides bespoke legal support on the most complex transactions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At TLP Advisory, we love entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ABOUT US Minerva Legal is a full-service law firm with international reach and an exceptional breadth of services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1972, ALP has established itself as one of the leading law firms in Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since the establishment of our firm in 1987, we have been key advisors over the years to the government in fundamental cases that have developed the legal framework of Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “COPLEY PARTNERS is a full-service law firm that provides clients with unparalleled ingenuity and a comprehensive range of legal and business consulting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OLAWOYIN & OLAWOYIN offers a full range of legal services, with a principal focus on all facets of corporate, securities, maritime, foreign investment, litigation and arbitration…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brickhouse Solicitors is a fully integrated and multi dimensional business law practice, providing legal services to local and international corporations, governments…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “F.O.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LEGAL ANSWERS LLP (The firm) is a Corporate and Commercial law firm based in Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Demesne Legal Practitioners (DLP) is a full service law firm in Lagos, Nigeria with legal expertise to deal with legal needs of its clients in their peculiar business environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DalaHill is a full service commercial law firm headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hawkes Legal is a Firm of Legal Practitioners providing transaction advisory, consulting and advocacy services in diverse areas of the law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ken Ahia & Associates is a full service Law firm with experienced and specialized lawyers to meet our clients’ needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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 Nigeria at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Nigeria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Nigeria, over 204 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 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 Nigeria 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 Nigeria 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, 526 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 14, 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.
Mergers and acquisitions law firms by metro
- Mergers and acquisitions law firms in Lagos55
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 Nigeria?
RevenueBase identified 204 mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in Nigeria 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?
Olaniwun Ajayi, headquartered in Banana Island Ikoyi Lagos, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most mergers and acquisitions law firms?
Lagos leads with 55 headquartered companies, followed by Lagos State (20) and Abuja (17).
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 526 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 204 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 14, 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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