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Virtual data rooms in Portland, OR

Virtual data rooms for Portland, Oregon deals, audits and legal matters

Portland has 1,440 law offices and 1,314 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms with paid staff, by the Census Bureau's 2023 count. ShareAndGo gives Portland teams a data room for that: one place per deal, audit or matter, with a record of who opened what.

What sets Portland's economy apart

The industry that stands out most in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro, measured against the national mix, is beverage manufacturing. Its 326 establishments are 3.0 times the share you would expect from the country as a whole. Next come nursing and residential care (1,764 establishments, 2.1 times) and computer and electronic products (192 establishments, 1.9 times). Of the 60 metros on these pages with published figures for beverage manufacturing, Portland ranks 2nd, behind Burlington, VT.

Brewery, distillery and beverage deals turn on licenses, distribution agreements and production records.

Care-facility sales and refinancings review licenses, survey results and operator agreements. In nursing and residential care, Portland places 3rd of 61 metros here; Anchorage, AK leads.

The firms that share confidential documents in Portland

Law in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro is mostly a small-firm business: 72 percent of its 1,440 law offices have fewer than five employees, against a median of 70 percent across the metros on these pages.

For transactions, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro adds 1,036 securities and investment establishments, 417 corporate and regional managing offices and 1,709 real estate brokerages.

Those five groups make up 5,916 of the 72,943 employer establishments counted in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro, about 8 percent.

  • Offices of lawyers (NAICS 541110): 1,440
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services (NAICS 5412): 1,314
  • Offices of certified public accountants (NAICS 541211): 435
  • Securities, commodity contracts and like activity (NAICS 523): 1,036
  • Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114): 417
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers (NAICS 531210): 1,709
  • Law offices by size: 1,042 under 5 employees, 199 with 5 to 9, 114 with 10 to 19, 60 with 20 to 49, 25 with 50 or more
  • Employees in law offices, mid-March 2023: about 9,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 8,100

How Portland compares

The Census Bureau estimated the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro's population at 2,537,904 in July 2024, up 25,054 or 1.0 percent on the April 2020 base of 2,512,850.

Measured against the 2023 estimate of 2,521,668, the same year as the business count, Portland has 57.1 offices of lawyers per 100,000 residents, 22nd of the 59 metro areas on these pages against a median of 52.6; the nearest rates are Salt Lake City, UT at 57.2 and Billings, MT at 57.0.

The metro with the closest number of law offices is Baltimore, MD, with 1,403; the metro closest in population, Austin, TX at 2,550,637 residents, has 1,524 law offices and 1,047 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments.

Counted by accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms instead, Portland's nearest match is Riverside, CA, with 1,371.

  • Residents, July 2024: 2,537,904
  • Residents, April 2020 base: 2,512,850
  • Change since 2020: +25,054 (1.0 percent), 45th of 59
  • Law offices per 100,000 residents: 57.1, 22nd of 59
  • Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll per 100,000 residents: 52.1, 11th of 59
  • Securities and investment per 100,000 residents: 41.1, 24th of 59
  • Managing offices per 100,000 residents: 16.5, 20th of 59
  • Real estate agents and brokers per 100,000 residents: 67.8, 20th of 59
  • Employees in offices of lawyers: about 9,000
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 8,100

Where Portland's firms are

The Census definition of the metro takes in seven counties. Taken one by one, Multnomah County had 773 offices of lawyers, Washington County 226 and Clackamas County 204.

Multnomah County alone holds 54 percent of the metro total, and the four counties beyond those three hold 236 between them.

The metro crosses state lines, with territory in Oregon and Washington.

  • Multnomah County: 773
  • Washington County: 226
  • Clackamas County: 204
  • Clark County: 185
  • Yamhill County: 37
  • Columbia County: 14

The courts and regulators behind Portland paperwork

When a Portland dispute reaches federal court, it goes to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

CPAs practicing in Oregon are licensed by the Oregon Board of Accountancy.

At state level, securities offerings and investment advisers in Oregon answer to the Oregon Division of Financial Regulation, so a Portland fund raising money or an adviser facing an exam has documents to produce on request.

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

What a ShareAndGo data room does for Portland audit work

For accounting and tax practices in Portland, a ShareAndGo room keeps the file in one place.

  • 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.
  • Audit Upload compares the folder you uploaded from with the room, file by file, and the check itself uploads nothing.

Portland FAQ

How many Portland law practices have paid staff?
County Business Patterns 2023 counted 1,440 offices of lawyers with paid employees in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro, 1,042 of them with fewer than five employees.
How many of the Portland area's law offices are in Multnomah County?
Multnomah County holds 773 of the metro's 1,440, followed by Washington County with 226.
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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