Lawyers

Christopher A. Keyser is a partner in Dentons' Corporate practice, focused on private M&A, divestitures, and financing transactions in the lower middle market. His clients include PE firms (Jordan Company, FFL Partners, Edgewater Funds, JZ Capital Partners, Keystone Capital, High Bluff Capital Partners), business founders, and family offices. Chris regularly advises on add-on acquisitions for PE buy-and-build strategies where individual deals range from $5M-$15M, while his core practice covers transactions up to $750M. Roughly 20% of his work is sell-side representation - a segment he considers underserved in the lower middle market. He also serves as outside general counsel for PE portfolio companies on governance, commercial contracts, and day-to-day legal matters.

Barlow & Williams is a boutique M&A law firm specializing in small business acquisitions. Founded by Bill Barlow and James David Williams, both with Harvard Law and Big Law backgrounds, they offer flat-fee pricing ($25-30K for SBA deals) with a focus on searchers, roll-ups, and sellers. Services include LOI structuring and negotiation, comprehensive legal due diligence, and transaction document drafting.

Law firm specializing in helping acquisition entrepreneurs buy, grow, and sell small businesses. Provides M&A transaction structuring, due diligence, document negotiation, and fractional general counsel services. Offers flat fee and hourly engagement options with a unique failed-deal credit policy.

Boutique corporate transactional law firm specializing in low-mid market M&A ($1M-$20M deals, majority under $10M). Founded by Jonathan Mond, who brings big law experience from Clifford Chance and Greenberg Traurig, plus in-house counsel experience at a publicly traded company. Focuses on healthcare, MSP, and SaaS acquisitions with pragmatic, business-first legal counsel.

Lieberman & Klestzick is a boutique litigation and transactional law firm with offices in New York and South Florida. Partner Joseph Gerstel focuses on small business acquisitions and rollover equity structures, providing M&A legal counsel to individual buyers navigating complex deal terms. The firm also handles commercial litigation and contract disputes related to business transactions.

Goodwin is the original search fund law firm with over 50 lawyers actively practicing in the search fund space across US, Europe, and Asia. The firm has helped thousands of entrepreneurs form search funds and close fundraising rounds, advising on nearly $1 billion in acquisitions and exits. Known for practical, team-based approach focusing on deal closure.

Merger Nation is a boutique M&A law firm founded by Barry Gosin that is 100% focused on representing small to medium sized businesses in acquisitions. The firm offers flat-fee pricing with 24-48 hour document turnaround. Gosin, educated at University of Pennsylvania and Villanova Law, brings experience from two of the largest US law firms and has personally founded, acquired, and grown multiple businesses.

Clear Focus Law is an exclusively buy-side M&A law firm specializing in business acquisition legal services for entrepreneurs and SMB buyers. They provide thorough legal due diligence combining investigative database results, public records searches, state filing reviews, seller questionnaires, and meticulous review of seller records and documents, with the lawyer having closed 100+ deals worth $210M+ and extensive experience with SBA-financed transactions.