Your client is expanding into Brazil, being sued in Germany, or asking for a transfer pricing opinion in Singapore. Finding a firm there is easy. Putting your firm's name next to theirs is not. Aliant+ is built so that in each of those places there is a firm your partners have met, whose work they have seen, and who will look after your client and send them back.
Talk to us about membershipMember firms, each admitted against published criteria.
Countries where a member firm can act for your clients.
Professionals inside the member firms.
Firms have left in ten years because membership was not worth it.
Inbound work comes from members who have met your partners and seen how they operate. That is why the network puts the same firms in the same room several times a year instead of handing you a directory and wishing you luck.
When your client crosses a border, your firm makes one call inside the network instead of handing the relationship to a firm you found online. Your firm stays at the center of the matter and the client stays yours.
When a client's business touches four countries, the pitch usually goes to a firm large enough to cover all four. Your firm can take that pitch, name the people who would handle each piece, and mean it.
Every member firm is admitted against the published criteria below and sits in the same size and market band as yours. When your firm sends a client abroad it is vouching for a peer it knows, not a name from a search result.
Most networks grow by simple addition. A firm applies, the territory is open, the firm gets in. Referrals in those networks stall, because the member firms have nothing in common beyond membership.
We select intentionally and grow deliberately. Aliant+ admits independent firms that fit defined criteria: mid-size for their location, middle-market clients, significant existing cross-border work, and practice coverage that lines up with what other members actually send.
Geography and numbers alone do not produce work. Similarity and a like-minded purpose do.
Every firm in this network is a firm the rest of us vouch for each time a client crosses a border. Membership has clear standards:
Independent and self-managed, not a branch or a captive of a larger group.
Mid-size for its own market, so its economics resemble the rest of the network.
Already doing cross-border work, with an international client base we can look at.
Well regarded in its own market, with standing we can independently check.
Broad enough in practice coverage to take what members send, and deep enough in something to be worth sending to.
Working-proficient in English across the people who deal with clients.
Insured for professional liability at customary levels for its market.
Prepared to participate: meetings, a practice area group, and a real response when a member calls.
That is the floor, not the expectation. Most firms attend both conferences and send several partners.
Renewal is the measure that matters, because it is the one a member firm votes on with its own money every year, and ours has held for a decade.
Aliant+ brings together established law and accounting firms with strong reputations in their markets. Across the network, member firms and professionals have been recognized by leading legal, accounting, and industry organizations.
These recognitions belong to the member firms and professionals who earned them, not to Aliant+ collectively.
Know comes first, from the profiles, the directory, and the introductions we make the week your firm joins. Like comes from the room. Three days in the same hotel does more than three years of email, which is why the conference matters more than anything else we run. Trust comes last, from the first matter one firm sends another and the way it gets handled.
Everything below exists to move member firms along that sequence faster than they would get there on their own.
When your firm joins, our Director of Network Engagement introduces it person to person to the member firms closest to its practice and its clients. Not a directory handoff and not a welcome email.
Practice Area Groups bring together members with shared expertise, interests, and business development goals to exchange ideas and create opportunities.
Recurring virtual meetings keep members connected throughout the year through conversation and relationship building across the network.
Two live conferences a year, fall and spring. This is where the relationships that carry referrals actually form, and it is the part of membership no directory can imitate.
Our tenth anniversary conference is in Los Angeles, October 18 to 21, 2026, at Cameo Beverly Hills. A firm considering membership is welcome to attend once as our guest.
Businesses increasingly face legal, tax, regulatory, and financial questions that are interconnected rather than separate. That is why Aliant+ brings law and accounting firms together, giving members practical access to both perspectives when it matters.
This gives firms broader capabilities, creates more opportunities for collaboration, and helps clients receive more coordinated support as their needs grow more complex.
It starts with a conversation. We are friendly, responsive and easy to talk to, and we are happy to meet new firms.
Your firm talks to the Director of Network Engagement and to the network's Chairman. We cover your practice, your clients, your market, and where your firm would fit.
We introduce your firm to two or three current members so both sides are deciding on something real rather than on a brochure.
Your firm submits a Membership Application covering its demographics and capabilities, which is what lets us understand the firm properly.
The network decides within a week, against the criteria published above.
A lot of hand-holding and a lot of introductions: the members closest to your firm's practice, a practice area group, a directory profile, and a slot to present your firm at the next network call.
Your firm is being asked to vouch for every other firm in this network. That is why we are careful about who we let in, and why we would rather stay small than grow into a directory.
For a firm joining a network, dues are a bet with no downside protection. We guarantee your satisfaction instead. If your firm meets the minimum attendance requirements and is unsatisfied with its membership, we refund the first two years' dues in full.
You will have to sell this internally. These are the answers you will need when you do.
Annual dues are set by the network in advance and are a factor of the firm's economic market and its size. The term renews annually and there is no long-term commitment.
No. Aliant+ takes no commission, no percentage and no fee split on work that moves between member firms. Between members, where the rules allow it, firms strive to pay each other a 15 percent referral fee. What your firm agrees with the receiving firm is between the two firms, subject to your own bar's rules on fee division.
Two, in ten years. One was acquired by an international law firm. One did not have its membership renewed, because its partners never attended a call or an event. No firm has left because it was unsatisfied with membership.
Most are between 10 and 100 professionals. Size has to be read against the market. A mid-size firm in New York or London has many more people than a mid-size firm in Africa or Latin America, and both belong here. What matters is that a firm is mid-size where it sits.
We select for overlap rather than for coverage: independence, mid-size for the market, middle-market clients, existing cross-border work, and practice areas that line up with what other members send.
They are published above, all eight of them, and we apply them. A decision follows within a week of the application.
Through relationships rather than a routing system. Your partners meet members at the conferences and on practice area calls, our Director of Network Engagement introduces your firm to the members closest to its practice, and when your client needs help in another country your firm calls someone it already knows.
We are mindful of how busy everyone is, so the minimum expectations are deliberately small: the annual fall conference, the spring conference at least once every two years, three practice area group calls a year, and two Connect+ networking calls a year. They exist because that level of contact is what generates referrals. Most firms do more.
Yes. Aliant+ places no exclusivity restrictions on your firm and no referral quotas tied to leaving anyone else. Membership here is not a claim on your firm's other relationships.
No. We do not admit firms that compete with an existing member. We will also tell an applicant which firms are already in its market before it applies, so nothing comes as a surprise afterwards.
We do our own due diligence and talk to both sides. Often it turns out to be a lapse in communication or a cultural misunderstanding rather than a failure of the work. If a firm does poorly more than once, that is grounds for terminating its membership.
Your firm does. A referral engages the receiving firm on the matter your firm sends and nothing beyond it.
Yes. Aliant+ was built for both professions rather than as a legal network with accountants attached. The referrals run in both directions, because clients need cross-border tax, audit and advisory work at least as often as they need foreign counsel.
Yes for the fall conference. We ask every member firm to attend it, and to attend the spring conference at least once every two years. Most firms come to both and send several partners.
Jacob Stein chairs and leads the network, with the strong support of a board of directors who are all managing partners of member firms. Your firm will work closely with our team throughout the application process and as a member.
If your firm meets the minimum attendance requirements and is not satisfied with its membership, we refund the first two years' dues in full. It is written into the membership agreement rather than kept as a marketing line, and a copy goes to your firm before it signs anything.
The term renews annually, so a firm that does not want to continue simply does not renew. No exit interview and no penalty.
A lot of hand-holding. Our Director of Network Engagement introduces your firm to the members closest to its practice and its clients, places it in practice area groups, sets up its directory profile, and gets it a slot to present at the next network call. The goal of the first ninety days is that the network knows what your firm does.
Tell us about your firm and your clients. Our team will follow up personally, and we would rather introduce your firm to two or three members than send you a brochure.
Your firm deals with the same person from the first call through admission and after.
Every inquiry is reviewed personally, not routed through a queue. Visit our Contact page and a member of our team will follow up directly.
