Client industry · November 2026
Nonprofits & Charities: who advises the sector
Dated deals for nonprofits & charities clients over the last 12 months, the practices and firms behind them, and how lawyers with this focus moved.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 329
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +9.4%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 227
- Distinct clients
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data count 329 dated deals for Nonprofits & Charities clients from November 2025 to October 2026. On settled windows the deal count went from 309 to 338 (+9.4%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By practice, Public Law & Government is involved in 25.5% of these deals and Intellectual Property in 18.5%. By deal type, Disputes & investigations is involved in 70.5% of these deals.
Deal value was disclosed on 4.9% of them. 227 distinct clients appear across the window.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ranks first among advising firms, in the 11-20 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.
Lawyers whose work centers on Nonprofits & Charities changed firm 71 times in the same window. Partners were 57.7% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed +11.9%.
For a company in Nonprofits & Charities, the adviser table shows where sector experience sits, which is where an in-house hire is most likely to come from.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Deals (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | 11-20 |
| 2 | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | 6-10 |
| 3 | Jenner & Block | 6-10 |
| 4 | WilmerHale | 6-10 |
| 5 | Covington & Burling | 6-10 |
| 6 | O'Melveny & Myers | 6-10 |
| 7 | Latham & Watkins | 6-10 |
| 8 | Jones Day | 6-10 |
| 9 | Leigh Day | 6-10 |
| 10 | Venable | 6-10 |
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Reports
- A Nonprofit Lawyer Search Starts in Tax: 52.1% of Movers Carry It
Half of the lawyers with a nonprofit focus who changed firms carry tax work (52.1%) and 29.6% private client work, each at over ten times the market's share (indexes of 1,035 and 1,260). They join firms of 400-999 lawyers more often than the largest firms, and they change city more often than the market: a foundation hiring in-house counsel is hiring a tax and governance lawyer.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026 - Nonprofits Go to Law Firms for Disputes: One Matter at a Time
Nonprofits buy litigation, not transactions: disputes and investigations were 70.5% of the sector's deals, public law lawyers worked on 25.5% of them, and each client brought 1.4 deals, the fewest of any sector.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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