M&A Attorneys

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.

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.

Joel Ankney is a Virginia-based business attorney with 30+ years of experience helping small business owners start, acquire, operate, and exit their businesses. He has closed deals with purchase prices up to $20 million, specializing in SBA-financed transactions, and acts as fractional outside counsel for Virginia businesses needing help with contracts, compliance, and disputes. Joel is also an author of three business books and guest lecturer at leading business schools on small business transactions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Women-owned boutique corporate law firm specializing in finance, real estate, commercial transactions, M&A, contracts, corporate governance, compliance and general counsel services.

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.

Boutique law firm with award-winning attorneys specializing in IP, corporate, and transactional law. Addresses micro private equity transactions and small business acquisitions, covering deal structure, financing instruments, diligence scope, and indemnification language.

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.

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.