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Top 25 Mergers and acquisitions law firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 567 mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 25,114 professional contacts across them, including 12,660 with verified work emails and 1,589 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,487 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Freshfields is a global firm with over 280 years’ experience of anticipating change, setting new standards and shaping the future of law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,738 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “On May 1, 2024, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling merged to become A&O Shearman.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,951 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Slaughter and May is regarded as one of the most prestigious law firms in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,797 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re your business advisers as well as your lawyers, working in step with you to protect your interests today and progress your ambitions for tomorrow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,231 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An unpredictable world calls for a progressive-thinking law firm that’s aligned to your ambitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 693 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farrer & Co is synonymous with the highest quality legal advice and service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 460 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a London based, full-service law firm, specialising in providing straightforward advice to ambitious clients ranging from entrepreneurial businesses, family offices and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 436 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clients are at the heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Morton Fraser MacRoberts (MFMac) is a leading independent Scottish law firm, known for combining deep legal expertise with clear, practical advice that helps clients achieve their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 413 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Talbots Law can offer your business a wide range of legal services - no matter what business you are in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 384 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clearwater is an independent corporate finance house focused on unlocking the latent potential in every business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 362 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Berwin Leighton Paisner and Bryan Cave have combined to form Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 354 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a European headquartered hub for litigation, transactions and advice throughout the world and have remained fiercely independent since we first began in 1837.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 302 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Geldards is one of the country’s leading law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leonard Curtis is a team of 300+ financial, legal and business experts, operating across the UK and offshore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quantuma is a leading business advisory firm which works with businesses at the key milestones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fox Williams is a leading law firm based in the City of London, trusted by its clients to provide quality advice with a high level of partner involvement and an astute commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Taylor Emmet, we have one simple aim, and that is to provide legal advice that supports and protects you and your business; giving you total peace of mind.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help businesses and those who own and run them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our pioneering integrated approach to professional services cuts through the complicated layers of the legal and accountancy world to give you straightforward joined-up advice and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We get things done with clear advice for today’s complex business world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BPE Solicitors is an independent commercial law firm based in the South West.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FBC Manby Bowdler is an award-winning, full-service law firm that has been uncomplicating the legal process for individuals and businesses for nearly 200 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marriott Harrison is a legal transactional and advisory firm, best known for its market-leading work alongside insightful investors and ambitious companies who build, evolve, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As one of the leading firms of solicitors in the Thames Valley and M3 Corridor, Clifton Ingram serves both individuals and business clients from our offices in Farnham, Reading…” 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 the United Kingdom 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 the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom 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, 12,660 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
- 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.
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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 the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 567 mergers and acquisitions law firms headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Freshfields, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most mergers and acquisitions law firms?
London leads with 312 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (11) and Bristol (11).
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 12,660 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 567 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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