Overview

M&A advisory in New York

27 of the 100 firms in the Top 100 are headquartered in New York. A firm being headquartered here says very little on its own about whether it's the right fit for your deal. Filter by deal size and industry before you filter by location.

Industries

What New York firms cover

Among the 27 New York-headquartered firms, by industry focus.

Technology
21
Healthcare
20
Consumer
19
Industrials
15
Financial Services
12
Business Services
6
Media
5
Energy
2
Deal Size

New York deal-size distribution

By overlapping deal-size band, among the 27 New York firms.

Under $5M
2
$5M–$10M
6
$10M–$25M
10
$25M–$50M
11
$50M–$100M
13
$100M–$250M
13
$250M–$500M
12
$500M–$1B
16
Ranked Firms

New York firms in the Top 100

Ranked by overall Top 100 research rank.

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The most famous names here often rank lower than boutiques you’ve never heard of Brand ≠ Rank

The largest bulge-bracket investment banks headquartered in New York frequently rank well behind smaller boutiques in this list. That’s because Research Rank weights lower-middle-market relevance heavily, and the biggest names are typically built for $500M+ transactions almost exclusively. If you’re selling a $15M company, a lower rank here reflects that mismatch, not a lower-quality firm. Match on deal size first; brand recognition is a poor proxy for fit outside a firm’s actual range.

Sources

Where this data comes from

Firm rankings & HQ locationsAxial Advisor 100, 2026 ↗
Deal-size distributionCalculated from normalized firm-level ranges
Data as ofAug 19, 2026
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