Ebadat Recognized in Prestigious Chambers USA 2026 for Corporate/M&A
HOUSTON, TX / Press Release / June 8, 2026 / Ebadat, a Texas-based corporate law firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, venture and growth financings, and fund formation, today announced that it has been ranked in the 2026 edition of the Chambers USA Guide, the legal industry’s most rigorous and widely respected rankings publication. Ebadat earned a “Highly Regarded” band in Texas Corporate/M&A, marking its debut placement in the Chambers USA Guide.
The 2026 Chambers USA Guide recognizes just 42 firms in Corporate/M&A across all of Texas, a group that includes the largest and most prestigious firms in the country, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Vinson & Elkins, and Skadden . Ebadat, a Houston-based boutique founded by Soheil Ebadat, joined that group for the first time in 2026.
Chambers and Partners has been the legal industry’s most trusted independent rankings publisher for more than 30 years. Its rankings cannot be purchased: inclusion is determined solely through Chambers’ proprietary research process, which spans 350,000 confidential client and market interviews each year, conducted by more than 330 specialist researchers across 200 jurisdictions. According to Chambers’ 2025 brand study, 99% of in-house counsel consult Chambers rankings when selecting new legal counsel, and more than 80% of in-house counsel and law firms identify Chambers as having the most transparent and rigorous methodology in the market. Inclusion in the Texas Corporate/M&A table reflects the firm’s growing reputation as a destination for sophisticated, founder-aligned deal counsel, validated through direct client feedback rather than self-promotion.
Why This Recognition Matters for Clients
For founders, sponsors, and emerging managers evaluating counsel for sophisticated transactions, the Chambers USA ranking offers something other forms of marketing cannot: independent, client-verified evidence of capability. Because Chambers rankings are built on direct conversations with the clients who actually retain a firm, they level the playing field between boutiques and traditional BigLaw practices, allowing prospective clients to identify firms whose work product, judgment, and partner attention warrant entrusting them with the most consequential transactions.
A Growing Body of Independent Recognition
The Chambers USA 2026 recognition adds to a series of recent accolades for Ebadat. The Legal 500 United States ranked Ebadat Tier 1 for Corporate and M&A in the Houston City Elite category in both 2025 and 2026, named the firm to its 2026 National “Firms to Watch” list for M&A, and ranked Ebadat nationally in 2026 for Fund Formation. Founder and Managing Partner Soheil Ebadat was also selected to the 2026 edition of Texas Super Lawyers.
A Boutique Built for Complex Transactions
With billions of dollars in deal experience across the United States and abroad, Ebadat advises strategic acquirers, private equity sponsors, independent sponsors, founders, emerging fund managers, and family offices on the full lifecycle of corporate transactions. The firm’s practice spans middle-market M&A, sponsor-led acquisitions and platform builds, cross-border M&A, energy and oil and gas transactions, technology M&A, venture and growth financings, and fund formation.
Recent representative engagements include advising Blue Crow Sports Group in its acquisition of Le Havre Athletic Club, a Ligue 1 football club; counseling a buyer group on an advanced bid for Italian Serie A club A.C. Monza; representing DIO Capital Partners in its acquisition of ProWire USA; advising on the sale of MFK Vyškov; and counseling a Swiss energy leader on a strategic partnership with a Fortune 500 company.
“Recognition from Chambers is, more than anything, a reflection of our clients and the trust they place in us at the most consequential moments in their businesses,” said Soheil Ebadat, Founder and Managing Partner of Ebadat. “We built this firm on a simple premise: that founders, sponsors, and investors deserve the strategic depth and execution quality of a top-tier institutional practice, delivered with the responsiveness and partner attention of a boutique. To be named to Chambers USA in our first year of consideration, alongside the firms we have long admired, is both humbling and a meaningful validation of that approach. Our team is grateful, and we are focused on continuing to earn this standing one transaction at a time.”
About Ebadat
Ebadat is a Texas-based corporate law firm with offices in Houston and Austin. The firm advises founders, strategic acquirers, private equity and independent sponsors, emerging fund managers, family offices, and operating companies on mergers and acquisitions, venture and growth financings, fund formation, sponsor-led transactions, sports transactions, and corporate and commercial matters. Ebadat is ranked in the 2026 Chambers USA Guide for Texas Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded; ranked Tier 1 for Corporate and M&A by The Legal 500 United States in the Houston City Elite category for 2025 and 2026; ranked nationally by The Legal 500 United States for Fund Formation in 2026 and named to its 2026 National “Firms to Watch” list for M&A; and recognized in the 2026 edition of Texas Super Lawyers. To learn more, visit www.ebadatlaw.com.
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