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Top 25 Private equity advisors based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 214 private equity advisors headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,816 professional contacts across them, including 3,670 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (781 companies); Chicago follows with 214.
This list covers private equity advisors headquartered in Chicago, 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 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 private equity advisors based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,489 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lincoln International, Inc.(NYSE: LCLN) is a trusted investment banking advisor to business owners and senior executives of leading private equity firms and their portfolio…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 985 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LaSalle is one of the world's leading investment managers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 504 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BDT & MSD Partners is a merchant bank serving founders, family business owners, and long-term strategic investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 367 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adams Street Partners is a global investment firm managing a comprehensive suite of private markets investment solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PPM America, Inc.(PPM) is a client-focused investment manager.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Livingstone is an international mid-market M&A and debt advisory firm with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Madrid…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DPO & Co specializes in helping Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies gain fact-based insights during the diligence process and realize post-close synergies and value…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blackmore Partners works with backable executives to build and monetize their background into an acquisition-based deal thesis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CDI Global, established in 1973, is a leader in middle-market, cross-border transactions with over transactions to our credit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kovitz connects high net worth individuals, institutions and financial professionals to customized asset management and advisory strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP") is a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago that, since its formation in 1992, has raised aggregate capital of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Flexpoint Ford is a specialist private equity firm focused on financial services and adjacent verticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wind Point Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm with approximately $6 billion in assets under management*.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2001, RCP Advisors, a strategy of Ridgepost Capital (NYSE: RPC), is a private equity investment firm that provides access to North American small buyout fund managers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We offer a curated spectrum of alternative investments across private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, and private credit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP") is a private equity investment firm that focuses on control investments in the lower middle market (companies with $1-5M of EBITDA).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Frontenac is a Chicago-based private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vivaldi Capital Management is a privately owned wealth management firm that advises high net worth individuals and family offices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CIVC Partners is a private equity firm, based in Chicago, focused on middle market buyout, recapitalization, and growth equity investments in industry sectors where our firm can…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Advisory Research Investment Management is a Chicago-based asset manager.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CastleArk Management LLC is a registered investment advisor, offering investment management services to institutional and high net worth clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WP Global Partners provides global institutional clients with portfolio exposure to private equity, venture capital, and private debt investments through strategically tailored…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dearborn Partners is a leading independent investment management firm based in Chicago, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded by Sam Zell in Chicago-based Equity International Management, LLC (“EI”) is a private equity firm focused primarily on investing outside of the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Waylin is a full-service Office of the CFO advisory firm built exclusively for private equity portfolio companies.” 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: private equity advisors. 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 private equity advisors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity advisors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity advisors. 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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Private equity advisors based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 214 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 private equity advisors, 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 Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “private equity advisors”. 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 private equity advisors), 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 private equity advisors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago 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, 3,670 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.
Private equity advisors by metro in the United States
- Private equity advisors in New York781
- Private equity advisors in Dallas155
- Private equity advisors in Los Angeles143
- Private equity advisors in Miami134
- Private equity advisors in Houston123
- Private equity advisors in Boston122
- Private equity advisors in Atlanta113
- Private equity advisors in San Francisco111
- Private equity advisors in Austin81
- Private equity advisors in Denver74
- Private equity advisors in Charlotte70
- Private equity advisors in Newport Beach57
- Private equity advisors in San Diego51
- Private equity advisors in Washington50
- Private equity advisors in Seattle45
- Private equity advisors in Scottsdale40
- Private equity advisors in Tampa37
- Private equity advisors in Minneapolis35
- Private equity advisors in Stamford32
- Private equity advisors in Birmingham31
- Private equity advisors in Philadelphia31
- Private equity advisors in Phoenix30
- Private equity advisors in Santa Monica27
- Private equity advisors in Nashville26
- Private equity advisors in Boca Raton25
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 private equity advisors, 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 private equity advisors are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 214 private equity advisors headquartered in Chicago, 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?
Lincoln International, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most private equity advisors?
New York leads the United States with 781 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (214) and Dallas (155).
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 3,670 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 214 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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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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