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Top 25 Private equity advisory firms based in Los Angeles, United States
RevenueBase identified 215 private equity advisory firms headquartered in Los Angeles, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,112 professional contacts across them, including 2,780 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (887 companies); Los Angeles has 215.
This list covers private equity advisory firms headquartered in Los Angeles, 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 Los Angeles, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bellwether is the trusted advisory partner to global institutional real estate investors, acting as a force multiplier for their internal teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 296 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imperial Capital, founded in 1997, is a full-service investment bank with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Milan, Stamford, Palm Beach, Houston, Boston, and Tel Aviv.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Intrepid is an investment bank focusing on M&A and capital advisory services for middle market companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Palm Tree is the modern M&A advisor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Brentwood Associates is a Los Angeles-based private equity investment firm with a 30+ year history of investing in middle-market growth-oriented consumer and business services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aurora Capital Partners works together with successful management teams to build market-leading companies through investments in growth initiatives, strategic positioning and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Xnergy Financial, Member FINRA/ SIPC, is an international investment banking firm providing debt and equity and merger and acquisition services to emerging growth and middle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Actionist is a premier business consultancy that serves Fortune 500 players, top investment firms, and high-growth disruptors across strategic planning, growth management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Los Angeles based Investment / Merchant Bank and Wealth Management Firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “American Discovery Capital is an independent merchant-banking firm focused on making investments in the most active family-owned middle market U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M&A Business Advisors is a full-service Business Brokerage and Lower Middle Market M&A Advisory Firm and the Leader in Business Sales & Acquisitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Real Value Capital is a US-based investment company specializing in overseas listings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, strategic management consulting, and equity…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Growthink provides strategic advisory and investment banking services to forward-looking companies and organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 51 years, the principals of Cappello Global, LLC and its affiliates have been providing innovative investment banking services to public and private companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Avante Capital Partners is an award-winning private credit and equity firm in the lower middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2011 by senior bankers from Merrill Lynch and Duff & Phelps, Black Legend Capital is a global M&A advisory firm that also acts as a principal in select transactions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Horatius Group supports founders, families, and business owners maximize the value of their privately held businesses with sell-side advisory, buy-side search, capital raising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in The Sage Group is an independent investment bank that provides corporate finance advice to premium branded consumer and retail companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MJC Partners, LLC (“MJC”) is an independent investment banking firm that offers a full range of strategic, transactional, and valuation-related services to our clients across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Impact Capital Group is a professional M&A transaction, valuation, and strategic advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Diamond Capital Advisors is an investment bank headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Triton Pacific Capital Partners is a private equity firm making equity investments on behalf of itself and its investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Halifax West is a merchant bank that serves independent sponsors and closely held private businesses.” 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 Los Angeles, United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Los Angeles, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Los Angeles, over 215 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 Los Angeles, 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 Los Angeles 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, 2,780 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 in the United States
- Private equity advisory firms in New York887
- Private equity advisory firms in Chicago267
- 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 New York City47
- Private equity advisory firms in Phoenix46
- 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 St. Louis26
- 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 Los Angeles, United States?
RevenueBase identified 215 private equity advisory firms headquartered in Los Angeles, 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?
Houlihan Lokey, headquartered in Los Angeles, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most private equity advisory firms?
New York leads the United States with 887 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 2,780 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 215 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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