M&A Attorneys

Bittiger Elias Triolo & Diehl P.C. is a law firm in Paramus, New Jersey that represents entrepreneurs and businesses in acquisitions and sales, structuring transactions as asset deals, stock deals, and joint ventures. The firm serves clients across New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area, with attorneys admitted in both states, and maintains a second office in Manhattan. Its transactional practice covers business acquisitions and sales, healthcare transitions, commercial law, real estate, and land use and zoning, and it draws on in-house employment, litigation, and estate planning practices to support deals end to end. The firm is led by partners Jason L. Bittiger, Paul M. Elias, Priscilla J. Triolo, and Robert A. Diehl.

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.

SMB Law Group is a boutique, remote-first M&A law firm founded by three former Big Law attorneys from Cravath and Cooley that specializes exclusively in small and medium-sized business acquisitions, sales, and operations across all 50 states. Since launching in 2022, the firm has closed over 50 transactions totaling more than $250 million, serving individual acquirers, search fund operators, and SMB buyers through LOIs, due diligence, and deal closings.

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.

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.

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.

Dittmar Law is an Atlanta-based law firm providing outside general counsel and transactional legal services to owners of privately held businesses. The firm's practice includes corporate acquisitions and exits, ownership and contract disputes, corporate governance, and technology/AI governance, with client experience across healthcare, technology, energy, sports and entertainment, and retail. Principal attorney Ryan Dittmar focuses on buy- and sell-side M&A representation, including healthcare private equity and dental roll-up transactions, with a stated minimum deal size of $1M.

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.

Proviso (formerly Bowles PLLC) is a Charlotte-based law firm focused on lower middle market M&A, representing corporate buyers, private investment firms, and individual acquirers from LOI description through closing and post-acquisition integration. Founded by Matt Bowles, formerly of Hogan Lovells and Jones Day, the firm has completed over 100 transactions worth more than $50 billion in aggregate value. Proviso also offers ongoing general counsel, compliance, and contract operations services for the businesses buyers acquire.

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.

Faison Law Group is a boutique transactional law firm with M&A, corporate, and finance practices. The firm serves aspiring entrepreneurs pursuing Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) and search fund strategies, providing legal support for business sales, acquisitions, and transaction structuring. They offer fixed-fee pricing aimed at making legal services accessible to smaller deal sizes.

Vermont-based boutique law firm specializing in M&A for deals under $10M. Offers 'Manhattan and Boston experience at Vermont prices' with expertise in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and outside general counsel services. Provides free LOI reviews and combines AI-driven insights with M&A experience.