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How to discover and search for Advisors

What to know

Explore the deal activity of M&A advisors, consultants, lawyers and more using our Global Search or the Advisors Table


For a known advisor

If you already know the advisory firm you’re looking for, start with the Global Search bar at the top of any page.

You can search by:

  • Firm name: e.g. PwC, McKinsey, or Weil Gotshal will take you to their Advisor profile
  • Website URL: pasting a firm’s domain (e.g. www.lazard.com) will surface their profile

Each result links directly to the Advisor’s full profile, showing their roles across M&A, financing, and advisory mandates.
 

For market discovery

To explore the full advisor landscape, head to the Advisors table and use the filters to build your own longlist.

Some of those key filters include: 

Service line: define the type of activity

Specify across a range of capabilities, including:

  • M&A Advisory (Investment Banking): buy-side and sell-side mandates
     
  • Debt Advisory: leveraged finance or refinancing support
     
  • Commercial & Financial Due Diligence: consulting and accounting firms
     
  • Legal Counsel: M&A law firms and deal lawyers
     
  • ESG or Technology Advisory: specialist consulting practices
     
Deal characteristics: focus and relevance

Sector focus: focus by a target sector (e.g. healthcare or industrials) or use tags to really define a niche (e.g. "MedTech" or "Automotive Components"

Deal volume & size: Filter by the typical deal range (e.g. mid-market vs large-cap) or how many transactions they supported

Investor relationships: track record

Gain.pro uniquely links Advisors to the Investors they've worked with. 

You can filter by Investor and quickly identify repeat partnerships - a strong signal of sector reputation or preferred status

 

That means you can explore the full dealmaking network behind private markets, benchmark your capabilities and see who the competitors or collaborators could be in your segment

 

FAQs

Why do some firms have a "Company" and an "Advisor" profile?
  • A Company Profile covers the firm’s own financial and organisational details
     
  • An Advisor Profile tracks their Deal history — the clients and transactions they’ve advised on
     
  • We hold multiple profiles where an Advisor has also been curated and profiled. When searching, select the result under Advisors to see their deal activity and track record
     
How do you track firms that cover multiple advisory activities?
  • On each Deal, we tag the individual activities an Advisor provided - meaning you get the complete view for Advisors that can work across multiple streams
     
  • You can filter by Advisory activity to narrow your search to a specific capability they provide
Do you track individual Advisors alongside their companies?
  • Yes! Where public information is available on Deal Team Members, we now tag those individuals to their relevant Deals
     
  • You can also provide feedback on the Deals that you worked on if you'd like to tag yourself to a Deal.

 

Next: What's in an Advisor profile?

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