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Top 25 Venture capital law firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 122 venture capital law firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 12,887 professional contacts across them, including 8,274 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers venture capital law firms 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 venture capital law firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8,449 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As one of the world’s leading law firms, we serve a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “High stakes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 565 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chapman is a law firm focused on finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're Much.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its founding in 1929, Masuda Funai has focused its practice on successfully representing international and domestic companies entering, operating and expanding in the United…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 40 years, First Analysis has been at the forefront of supporting emerging growth companies and established leaders across high-growth, technology-driven sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PFS is a law firm that serves a diverse group of clients in a wide variety of business and commercial matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Latimer LeVay Fyock LLC aim is to deliver sound legal advice to our clients within the specific context of their respective business and personal objectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “What makes SFBBG different from other law firms?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kluever Law Group, LLC (KLG) is a ten attorney firm boasting a strong record of success representing a core client base of banks, financial institutions, receivers, secured…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shefsky & Froelich Ltd, a Chicago-based full-service law firm, was founded in 1970 by a small group of highly motivated attorneys with extensive experience in complex commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Litwin Kach is a boutique law firm providing sophisticated legal services in the areas of private equity, mergers and acquisitions, energy development, venture capital, commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saper Law is an intellectual property, social media, and business law firm with headline grabbing clients and cases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As of July 2022, Shepard Schwartz & Harris LLP joined Citrin Cooperman.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gozdecki, Del Giudice, Americus, Farkas & Brocato LLP ("GDAFB") is a full service business law firm which offers outstanding legal advice and representation to large and small…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harris Winick Harris LLP is a boutique commercial law firm formed by a core group of talented attorneys with over 100 years of collective experience representing clients locally…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McCarthy Duffy LLP is a business-focused law firm that has been supporting clients in the Midwest and around the world for over 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by a team of Big Law veterans, our firm blends the nimble entrepreneurialism of a boutique start-up with the wisdom and experience that comes from decades of deftly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Goldstein & McClintock is a restructuring, finance & corporate law firm with 11 offices across the U.S, comprised of top professionals with decades of experience at some of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founders Law is the law firm built from the ground up to service founders, entrepreneurs, and dreamers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The attorneys at Ziliak Law care about your business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RK is a minority-certified firm that specializes in the dynamic intersection between business and government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hart David Carson LLP is a national law firm redefining how corporate counsel is delivered.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mandell Menkes is a boutique law firm dedicated to providing our clients the highest quality of legal services.” 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: venture capital 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 venture capital law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture capital law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture capital 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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Venture capital law firms 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 122 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 venture capital 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 Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital law firms, 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, 8,274 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.
Venture capital law firms by metro in the United States
- Venture capital law firms in New York301
- Venture capital law firms in Los Angeles126
- Venture capital law firms in Chicago122
- Venture capital law firms in San Francisco118
- Venture capital law firms in Houston80
- Venture capital law firms in Atlanta74
- Venture capital law firms in Dallas72
- Venture capital law firms in Washington69
- Venture capital law firms in San Diego68
- Venture capital law firms in Austin65
- Venture capital law firms in Miami59
- Venture capital law firms in Denver56
- Venture capital law firms in Boston52
- Venture capital law firms in Seattle42
- Venture capital law firms in Irvine38
- Venture capital law firms in Philadelphia37
- Venture capital law firms in Palo Alto29
- Venture capital law firms in Tampa27
- Venture capital law firms in Columbus26
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 venture capital 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 venture capital law firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 122 venture capital law firms 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?
Kirkland & Ellis, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most venture capital law firms?
New York leads with 301 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (126) and Chicago (122).
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 8,274 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 122 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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