Fintech & Payments: who advises the sector

Sartori & Partners data count 493 dated deals for Fintech & Payments clients from November 2025 to October 2026. On settled windows the deal count went from 506 to 487 (-3.8%), which we read as flat. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.

By practice, Corporate & M&A is involved in 45.4% of these deals and Capital Markets in 23.7%. By deal type, M&A is involved in 29.4% of these deals and Capital markets in 21.9%.

Deal value was disclosed on 32.0% of them; where disclosed, the median was $238 million. 266 distinct clients appear across the window.

Davis Polk & Wardwell ranks first among advising firms, in the 41-60 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.

Lawyers whose work centers on Fintech & Payments changed firm 127 times in the same window. Partners were 58.3% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed +7.4%.

For a general counsel in Fintech & Payments, these are the firms and practices that see the most of the sector's work: the bench to brief, and the bench in-house hires come from.