M&A Attorneys

Baker & Hostetler LLP is a national law firm with over 1,100 attorneys across 18 offices. The firm's Chicago office, led by partner Raam Jani, maintains an active search fund and ETA practice advising private equity funds, independent sponsors, and search fund entrepreneurs on leveraged acquisitions, recapitalizations, and exits in the middle market.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GPS Law Group is a boutique business law firm in Pikesville, Maryland specializing in small business M&A since 2007. The interdisciplinary team brings prior BigLaw experience to $1-5M deals, handling LOI negotiations, diligence, and deal documentation along with the real estate side of transactions including leasing, financing, and property acquisitions. The firm typically engages pre-LOI and charges hourly with evergreen retainers.

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.

Albrecht Law is a boutique law firm providing M&A, transactional tax, and business litigation services, with partners from elite firms like Gibson Dunn and DLA Piper. They offer fixed-fee M&A representation with broken-deal forgiveness, have closed hundreds of transactions worth billions in aggregate value, and serve searchers, independent sponsors, family offices, and private equity groups with typical deal timelines of 60-90 days from LOI to closing.

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.

Holland & Knight LLP is a global law firm with over 2,200 lawyers across 34 offices. Partner Kevin Christmas co-heads the firm's Search Funds and Independent Sponsors teams, representing domestic and international search funds, independent sponsors, and private equity funds in capital raising, M&A, divestitures, and leveraged buyouts across multiple sectors.

Groundswell Advisors is a boutique M&A law firm serving the ETA (Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition) community, with a focus on small and mid-market acquisitions ($1-50M). The firm was founded in 2022 by attorneys from Gibson Dunn, Orrick, Cooley, and Boston Consulting Group. With 40+ years of combined experience and 50+ completed transactions totaling over $1 billion in deal value, Groundswell provides legal counsel from search through close, including deal structuring, due diligence, and negotiation.