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Top 25 Private equity law firms based in San Francisco, United States

Name: Private equity law firms based in San Francisco, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026 84 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 84 private equity law firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,956 professional contacts across them, including 2,310 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (399 companies); San Francisco has 84.

This list covers private equity law firms headquartered in San Francisco, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 14, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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3,956Contacts tracked

2,310Verified emails

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The 25 largest private equity law firms based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 84 private equity law firms based in San Francisco, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to private equity law firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Morrison Foerster	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,667 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2	Farella Braun Martel LLP	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	201-500	250 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Farella Braun + Martel LLP is a leading Northern California law firm representing corporate and private clients in sophisticated business and real estate transactions and complex…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
3	Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	51-200	200 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Like most respected firms, we have many ways to tout our skill, our experience, and our results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4	JH Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	96 contacts →
	Strong evidence “JH Partners, LLC ("JH Partners" or "JHP") is a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on building sustainable, long-term equity value in consumer and marketing-driven…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
5	Shartsis Friese LLP	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	51-200	89 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Shartsis Friese LLP is one of San Francisco’s leading law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
6	Genstar Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	84 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Genstar Capital is a leading middle-market private equity firm, investing in high quality companies for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7	Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	48 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP is a leading investment management law firm known for providing top-tier, innovative, and collaborative legal solutions for complex financial services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8	Calera Capital	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1991, Calera Capital has invested over $5 billion of equity capital in the middle market, predominantly in founder, family, and management-owned businesses across a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9	Housatonic Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Housatonic Partners is a private equity firm investing in high growth, recurring revenue service companies operating in a number of industries including healthcare, software, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10	Hugo Parker LLP	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The lawyers at HUGO PARKER have a winning record at trial, providing clients with sound strategic advice and skilled trial and appellate representation before state and federal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11	Castle Crow & Company	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Castle Crow is a merchant banking group specializing in buyside private equity investments and now has affiliated deal team professionals in five North American locations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12	Encore Consumer Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Strong evidence “An innovative private equity firm built to capitalize on our investing experience and the operating expertise of our industry advisers to accelerate the growth of leading consumer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
13	Spotlight Equity Partners, LLC	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Spotlight Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in software and technology-enabled services companies headquartered in the United…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
14	Dudnick Detwiler Rivin & Stikker LLP	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Dudnick Detwiler Rivin & Stikker LLP is a legal services company based out of 351 California St, San Francisco, California, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15	Gordon-Creed Kelley Holl & Sugerman LLP	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Gordon-Creed Kelley Holl & Sugerman LLP has been representing companies and individuals in litigation and commercial transactions for over twenty-five years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16	Dillingham & Murphy, LLP	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Dillingham & Murphy, LLP is an AV-rated medium size law firm in San Francisco, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17	Chan Punzalan	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Chan + Punzalan is a full-service law firm that provides a wide range of business counsel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18	Schinner & Shain, LLP	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Schinner & Shain is a full-service law firm comprised of dynamic transactional and litigation attorneys, serving clients from its offices in San Francisco and Malibu.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19	Scherer Smith & Kenny LLP	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Scherer Smith & Kenny LLP serves mid-sized and fast-growing entrepreneurial companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20	Primum LAW Group PC	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Primum Law Group is boutique business law firm located in San Francisco, a city that has become home to many international companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21	Miura & Partners US	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Miura & Partners US provides legal expertise and strategic counseling to multi-national businesses in the areas of corporate law, licensing and commercial transactions, business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22	Rimon LAW Group INC	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
23	BAY Hills Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Bay Hills Capital is an independent, employee owned firm established in 2006 to focus exclusively on investing in small and lower middle market private equity strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
24	Pennington Holloway KIM LLP	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pennington Holloway Kim LLP was created to provide high quality legal work and service to clients with real estate interests.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
25	Next Horizon Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Next Horizon Capital is a middle-market, growth-oriented private equity firm that focuses on investing in Business Services, Technology and Information sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

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 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 private equity law firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of private equity law 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 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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Private equity law firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026

58.4%Verified-email coverage

47.1Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 84 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 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “private equity 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 private equity 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 private equity law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco 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, 2,310 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 law firms by metro in the United States

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 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 private equity law firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 84 private equity law firms headquartered in San Francisco, 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?

Morrison Foerster, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most private equity law firms?

New York leads the United States with 399 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (173) and Los Angeles (144). San Francisco has 84.

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 2,310 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 84 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.