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Virtual data rooms in Phoenix, AZ

Virtual data rooms for Phoenix deals, audits and legal matters

By the Census Bureau's 2023 count, the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro holds 2,339 offices of lawyers, 2,254 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms and 1,913 securities and investment firms with paid employees. ShareAndGo is a virtual data room for the documents they share during deals, audits, legal matters and fundraising.

What sets Phoenix's economy apart

Compared with the United States as a whole, the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro has an unusually large share of its businesses in real estate: 8,543 establishments, 1.5 times the national share. Next come nursing and residential care (1,762 establishments, 1.4 times) and outpatient health care (12,284 establishments, 1.3 times). No other metro on these pages has a higher concentration of real estate, out of 61 with published figures.

Property sales, refinancings and fund raises put leases, rent rolls and title files in front of buyers and lenders.

Care-facility sales and refinancings review licenses, survey results and operator agreements. In nursing and residential care, Phoenix places 10th of 61 metros here; Anchorage, AK leads.

The firms that share confidential documents in Phoenix

Law in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro is mostly a small-firm business: 74 percent of its 2,339 law offices have fewer than five employees, against a median of 70 percent across the metros on these pages.

Deal work in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro draws on 1,913 securities and investment establishments, 615 corporate and regional managing offices and 4,760 real estate brokerages.

About 10 percent of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro's 114,586 employer establishments, 11,881 in all, fall in these five groups.

  • Offices of lawyers (NAICS 541110): 2,339
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services (NAICS 5412): 2,254
  • Offices of certified public accountants (NAICS 541211): 811
  • Securities, commodity contracts and like activity (NAICS 523): 1,913
  • Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114): 615
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers (NAICS 531210): 4,760
  • Law offices by size: 1,736 under 5 employees, 300 with 5 to 9, 170 with 10 to 19, 91 with 20 to 49, 42 with 50 or more
  • Employees in law offices, mid-March 2023: about 14,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 15,000

How Phoenix compares

The Census Bureau estimated the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro's population at 5,186,958 in July 2024, up 335,636 or 6.9 percent on the April 2020 base of 4,851,322.

Measured against the 2023 estimate of 5,102,020, the same year as the business count, Phoenix has 45.8 offices of lawyers per 100,000 residents, 42nd of the 59 metro areas on these pages against a median of 52.6; the nearest rates are Manchester, NH at 45.4 and Louisville, KY at 44.9.

The metro with the closest number of law offices is Tampa, FL, with 2,361; the metro closest in population, Boston, MA at 5,025,517 residents, has 2,967 law offices and 1,863 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments.

Counted by accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms instead, Phoenix's nearest match is Philadelphia, PA, with 2,222.

  • Residents, July 2024: 5,186,958
  • Residents, April 2020 base: 4,851,322
  • Change since 2020: +335,636 (6.9 percent), 13th of 59
  • Law offices per 100,000 residents: 45.8, 42nd of 59
  • Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll per 100,000 residents: 44.2, 25th of 59
  • Securities and investment per 100,000 residents: 37.5, 33rd of 59
  • Managing offices per 100,000 residents: 12.1, 44th of 59
  • Real estate agents and brokers per 100,000 residents: 93.3, 7th of 59
  • Employees in offices of lawyers: about 14,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 15,000

Where Phoenix's firms are

The metro is two counties. Maricopa County had 2,307 of the law offices and Pinal County had 32, so 99 percent of the metro's law offices are in Maricopa County.

The courts and regulators behind Phoenix paperwork

When a Phoenix dispute reaches federal court, it goes to the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, whose Phoenix courthouse is the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse.

CPAs practicing in Arizona are licensed by the Arizona State Board of Accountancy.

At state level, securities offerings and investment advisers in Arizona answer to the Arizona Corporation Commission, Securities Division, so a Phoenix fund raising money or an adviser facing an exam has documents to produce on request.

If personal information in a Phoenix deal, audit or case file is exposed, Arizona's data breach notification law sets who has to be told and when.

What a ShareAndGo data room does for Phoenix property work

For brokerages and property deal teams in Phoenix, a ShareAndGo room keeps the file in one place.

  • View-only mode turns off downloading, printing and copying for the people you choose.
  • Room insights show who visited and what they viewed.

Phoenix FAQ

How many law firms are there in Phoenix?
The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns puts 2,339 offices of lawyers with paid employees in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro, 1,736 of them with fewer than five employees.
How many of the Phoenix area's law offices are in Maricopa County?
Maricopa County holds 2,307 of the metro's 2,339, followed by Pinal County with 32.
Do the people I invite need a ShareAndGo account?
No. Guests confirm who they are with a one-time code sent to their email, so there is no password to remember and no account to create. It runs in the browser, so the people you invite install nothing.

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