DealDatabase.co is a free, searchable record of which law firms and lawyers advised on which deals. It holds 10,864 law firm deal announcements from 2018 to today, covering 656 firms and 34,587 named lawyers, and you can filter them by deal type, sector and jurisdiction. Every deal record is free to read in full, with no account: the advising firms, the lawyers on each team, disclosed values, clients and counterparties. The paid plans are for people who work with the data every day, and add complete firm and lawyer histories, analytics, market share views, exports and custom reports.
DealDatabase is built and published by Legal Desire. For years every deal announcement we published went into an archive, and the only way to find anything was to scroll. This article explains what the database contains, what is free, what the paid plans add, and five practical ways firms and in-house teams are using it.
Key points
- 10,864 law firm deal announcements, 656 firms, 34,587 lawyers, 6,433 deals with a disclosed value.
- Free to read in full with no account: advising firms and their roles, named deal teams, disclosed values, clients and counterparties, deal types, sectors and jurisdictions.
- Every record links back to the original announcement.
- A free account lets firms submit deals, follow their status and claim profiles.
- Paid plans: Professional at $99 a month for one user, or Team at $350 a month for five users, both billed annually. They add complete histories, analytics, market share views, CSV and Excel export, and custom reports.
What is DealDatabase.co?
It is a structured database built from law firm deal announcements, the press releases firms publish when they advise on a transaction. Each announcement is broken into fields: the deal type, the sector, the jurisdictions, the value where one is disclosed, the firms involved and their roles, and the lawyers named on each team. Nothing is guessed. If an announcement does not state something, the field stays empty.
The database is updated twice a day, so new announcements appear within hours of being published.
What is in the database right now?
The mix follows what firms actually announce. By deal type, the largest groups are:
| Deal type | Announcements |
|---|---|
| M&A | 3,675 |
| Capital Markets & IPO | 1,878 |
| Debt Capital Markets | 1,007 |
| Banking & Finance | 907 |
| Private Equity & Buyouts | 826 |
| Venture Capital & Growth | 792 |
| Real Estate | 415 |
| Joint Venture | 394 |
| Project Finance | 294 |
| Energy & Infrastructure | 197 |
The busiest jurisdictions are the United States (1,916 announcements), Germany (1,046), the United Kingdom (894), France (444) and Hong Kong (421). The most active firms include Latham & Watkins, Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Kirkland & Ellis and Hogan Lovells.
One honest caveat. This is a record of published announcements, not a census of every deal in the market. Firms with active press teams announce more of their work, so the database is deepest on the large international firms. Treat counts as “announced deal activity”, not market share of all work. We apply the same rule in our own analysis, and the market share views in the paid plans are labelled that way.
What can you do for free?
No account and no card are needed to:
- Read every deal in full: the advising firms and their roles, the lawyers on each team with seniority, practice and office, the disclosed value and what it measures, the client and the counterparties.
- Search every deal by keyword, firm, deal type, sector and jurisdiction on the deals page.
- Open a firm profile and see its most recent announced deals, from the firm directory.
- Look up lawyers in the lawyer directory and see their recent deals.
- Browse by market through the sector and region pages.
- Read the source. Every record links to the original announcement.
With a free account you can also submit your firm’s deals, follow each submission from received to published in your account, and claim your lawyer or firm profile.
What do the paid plans add?
According to the pricing page, the paid plans add scale and analysis rather than hiding the data:
| Free | Professional | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $99/month, billed annually | $350/month for 5 users, billed annually |
| Every deal in full: firms, deal teams, values, clients, counterparties | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search, filters, firm and lawyer pages | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Submit deals and track their status (free account) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Complete deal history for any firm or lawyer, with full filtering | No | Yes | Yes |
| Analytics: deals by year and sector, co-counsel, opposing counsel, repeat clients | No | Yes | Yes |
| Market share views, labelled by announced deals | No | Yes | Yes |
| CSV and Excel export | No | 1,000 rows a day | 5,000 rows a day per user |
| Custom reports | No | Yes | Yes |
| Manage every lawyer profile at your firm, plus the firm profile | No | No | Yes |
| Free trial | 7 days, on request |
Larger firms that need more than five licences can ask for a bigger team licence.
Five ways to use it
1. Build credentials and pitch lists
Business development teams can pull every announced deal in a sector and market in minutes. Filter by sector and jurisdiction to see which firms are winning that work and who they act for, then use that to shape a pitch or a credentials document. Paid users can export the list straight into Excel.
2. Track competitors deal by deal
Open a rival firm’s profile and follow its announcements as they arrive. New clients, new sectors and new markets show up as soon as they are announced, not months later in a directory ranking. The paid analytics show who a firm most often works alongside, who is most often on the other side, and its repeat clients.
3. Find the lawyers who actually lead deals
For lateral hiring and recruiters, every deal record names the team with seniority, practice and office, free to read. Each lawyer has a profile with their recent deals, and the paid plans open the complete history, so a partner’s track record is in one place rather than spread across dozens of press releases.
4. Research a market before you advise on it
In-house legal teams choosing outside counsel can see which firms have announced work in a given sector and jurisdiction, and on deals of what size. The paid market share views rank firms by their share of announced deals for any sector, deal type, jurisdiction and years.
5. Check the facts before you publish
Journalists, analysts and researchers get a clean, sourced record of who acted on what. Every entry links to its source.
We use it ourselves. Our analysis of how the practice mix in law firm deal announcements shifted between 2024 and 2026 was built on this data. It found capital markets rising from 14.9 to 19.7 per cent of announcements while M&A fell from 36.5 to 32.4 per cent.
How to get your firm’s deals on the record
Create a free account and submit a deal directly. Submissions are reviewed before they go live, and you can follow each one from your account. Legal Desire also continues to publish deal announcements, and those flow into the database automatically. If you send us your firm’s deal news, it reaches both. See Publish with Legal Desire for every option.
Anyone named in a deal can ask for their record to be corrected. Accuracy matters more to us than volume.
For legal tech companies and developers
If deal data would make your product or research better, DealDatabase offers API access and data licensing by arrangement. The partners page explains what is available, or write to anuj@legaldesire.com.
Try it
Start with a search at dealdatabase.co. If your firm or legal team wants the paid tools, request a 7-day team trial, or email office@legaldesire.com. Subscribers to Legal Desire Insider get a longer trial offer in the newsletter.
Deal news itself stays free on Legal Desire, in our Deals section.
Frequently asked questions
What is DealDatabase.co?
A searchable database of law firm deal announcements, showing which firms and lawyers advised on which deals, by deal type, sector and jurisdiction. It is published by Legal Desire.
Is DealDatabase.co free?
Yes. Every deal record is free to read in full with no account, including the named deal teams, disclosed values, clients and counterparties. Paid plans add complete firm and lawyer histories, analytics, market share views, CSV and Excel export, and custom reports.
How much do the paid plans cost?
Professional is $99 a month for one user and Team is $350 a month for five users, both billed annually. Teams can request a 7-day free trial.
How many deals does DealDatabase cover?
10,864 law firm deal announcements from 2018 to today, covering 656 law firms and 34,587 named lawyers. It is updated twice a day.
Can my firm add its deals?
Yes, free. Create a free account, submit the deal through the submit page and follow its status from your account. Submissions are reviewed before publication.
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