The FOCUS Investment Banking Legal Services M&A team is comprised of professionals with a long history of relevant industry experience advising law firms, strategic investors and private equity firms on acquisitions, sales and transaction financing solutions.

Our team is focused on both buy side and sell side transactions related to Law Firm Mergers & Acquisitions in the U.S. & UK including Alternative Business Structures (ABS).

We provide comprehensive M&A advisory services tailored to the needs of law firms. Our process begins with identifying and sourcing merger candidates that align with your specific criteria whether by geography, practice area, profits per equity partner, or revenue per lawyer.

Because cultural alignment is critical component to a successful merger, our AI driven research platform evaluates firm-to-firm compatibility through shared characteristics such as common law school affiliations, prior work history, diversity and minority hiring practices, and more.

Additionally, as the legal industry has evolved over the past few years, law firms have organically grown or invested in alternative legal service providers, (ALSPs). ALSPs now comprise a $28 billion segment of the legal market, according to the Alternative Legal Services Providers 2023 Report, published by the Thomson Reuters Institute, the Center on Ethics, and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law, and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Overall, it reveals an evolving legal market in which the boundaries between alternative legal service providers, law firms, corporate law departments, and even technology and software firms are rapidly blurring.

The FOCUS legal industry M&A team has committed substantial resources to assisting law firms and investors acquire or finance the expansion of ALPS, as we anticipate robust growth to continue in the ALSP sector.