diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e5b612f8..78338021 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1111,6 +1111,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
  "tempfile",
  "url",
+ "walkdir",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/Cargo.toml b/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/Cargo.toml
index 3bcb70a9..ef9b3a9a 100644
--- a/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.11.3", default-features = false, features = ["blocking"
 once_cell = "1.8.0"
 cfg-if = "1.0.0"
 dunce = "1.0.2"
+walkdir = "2.3.2"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")'.dependencies]
 # NOTE: this enables wasm compatibility for getrandom indirectly
diff --git a/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/lib.rs b/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/lib.rs
index ea4bfd1d..5df72810 100644
--- a/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/lib.rs
+++ b/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/lib.rs
@@ -266,12 +266,9 @@ impl MultiAbigen {
     /// ```
     pub fn from_json_files(dir: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<Self> {
         let mut abis = Vec::new();
-        for file in fs::read_dir(dir)?.into_iter().filter_map(std::io::Result::ok).filter(|p| {
-            p.path().is_file() && p.path().extension().and_then(|ext| ext.to_str()) == Some("json")
-        }) {
-            let file: fs::DirEntry = file;
-            if let Some(file_name) = file.path().file_stem().and_then(|s| s.to_str()) {
-                let content = fs::read_to_string(file.path())?;
+        for file in util::json_files(dir) {
+            if let Some(file_name) = file.file_stem().and_then(|s| s.to_str()) {
+                let content = fs::read_to_string(&file)?;
                 abis.push((file_name.to_string(), content));
             }
         }
diff --git a/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/util.rs b/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/util.rs
index f8858db4..7a779990 100644
--- a/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/util.rs
+++ b/ethers-contract/ethers-contract-abigen/src/util.rs
@@ -151,6 +151,17 @@ fn take_while(s: &str, mut predicate: impl FnMut(char) -> bool) -> (&str, &str)
     s.split_at(index)
 }
 
+/// Returns a list of absolute paths to all the json files under the root
+pub fn json_files(root: impl AsRef<std::path::Path>) -> Vec<PathBuf> {
+    walkdir::WalkDir::new(root)
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter_map(Result::ok)
+        .filter(|e| e.file_type().is_file())
+        .filter(|e| e.path().extension().map(|ext| ext == "json").unwrap_or_default())
+        .map(|e| e.path().into())
+        .collect()
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;