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Top 25 Private equity advisory firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 6,880 private equity advisory firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 89,378 professional contacts across them, including 39,927 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers private equity advisory 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 29, 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 advisory firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 4,093 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L.E.K.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,912 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1848, Lazard is the preeminent financial advisory and asset management firm, with operations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,576 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Houlihan Lokey, Inc.(NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,296 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Evercore (NYSE: EVR) is a premier global independent investment banking advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,930 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,742 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moelis & Company (“Moelis”) is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,420 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PJT Partners is a premier, global, advisory-focused investment bank that was built from the ground up to be different.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,160 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With over 1,200 professionals across 18 international offices, Riveron delivers tailored solutions for CFOs, private equity firms, and key stakeholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced private credit manager.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 904 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nassau Street Partners is an independent capital advisory firm focused on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets advisory, and strategic financial solutions for early-stage and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 883 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Perella Weinberg is a leading global independent financial services firm, founded in 2006 to address the need for experienced, trusted and unconflicted advice in the financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TA is a leading global private equity firm focused on scaling growth in profitable companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 789 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In June 2017, B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 699 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners, offering a full range of services including Advisory, Sales and Trading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 693 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Centerview Partners is a premier provider of independent investment-banking advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 625 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greenhill & Co, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 528 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hilco Global is a privately held diversified financial services company and the world’s preeminent authority on maximizing the value of assets for both healthy and distressed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Benchmark International is a global M&A firm that provides business owners with creative, value-maximizing solutions for growing and exiting their businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 500 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SC & H is an employee-owned, global consulting and financial services firm driving business, technology, and teams forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 427 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Solomon Partners is a leading investment bank – one of the first independent firms in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 397 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kaiser Associates was founded in 1981 with a simple yet powerful mission: to help executives make more informed strategic and operational decisions by incorporating external…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Prairie is a leading financial advisory firm specializing in creating and executing ownership transition strategies for middle-market companies nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Citizens Capital Markets and Advisory is a leading middle market investment bank that supports clients across a focused set of industry sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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 advisory 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 private equity advisory firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity advisory firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity advisory 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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Private equity advisory firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 6,880 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 advisory 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 “private equity advisory 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 private equity advisory 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 private equity advisory 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, 39,927 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 29, 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 advisory firms by metro
- Private equity advisory firms in New York934
- Private equity advisory firms in Chicago267
- Private equity advisory firms in Los Angeles215
- Private equity advisory firms in Dallas187
- Private equity advisory firms in Atlanta182
- Private equity advisory firms in Houston178
- Private equity advisory firms in Miami157
- Private equity advisory firms in Boston149
- Private equity advisory firms in San Francisco144
- Private equity advisory firms in Austin116
- Private equity advisory firms in Denver105
- Private equity advisory firms in Charlotte86
- Private equity advisory firms in Washington71
- Private equity advisory firms in San Diego69
- Private equity advisory firms in Newport Beach63
- Private equity advisory firms in Tampa60
- Private equity advisory firms in Minneapolis56
- Private equity advisory firms in Scottsdale56
- Private equity advisory firms in Philadelphia50
- Private equity advisory firms in Phoenix46
- Private equity advisory firms in St. Louis46
- Private equity advisory firms in Nashville41
- Private equity advisory firms in Boca Raton40
- Private equity advisory firms in Seattle39
- Private equity advisory firms in Irvine34
- Private equity advisory firms in Birmingham32
- Private equity advisory firms in Fort Worth32
- Private equity advisory firms in Santa Monica30
- Private equity advisory firms in Salt Lake City29
- Private equity advisory firms in Cincinnati28
- Private equity advisory firms in Orlando28
- Private equity advisory firms in Raleigh27
- Private equity advisory firms in Cleveland26
- Private equity advisory firms in Richmond26
- Private equity advisory firms in Las Vegas25
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 advisory 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 private equity advisory firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 6,880 private equity advisory 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?
L.E.K. Consulting, headquartered in Boston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private equity advisory firms?
New York leads with 934 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (267) and Los Angeles (215).
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 39,927 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,880 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 29, 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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