Partner & counsel search
Lateral appointments across corporate finance — including strictly confidential replacements.
For Law Firms
Appointments that hold.
The cost of a senior hire is never the fee — it is the year lost when the appointment is wrong.
Mandates
What we are instructed on.
Team moves
Multi-lawyer liftouts, managed end to end — without disturbing the practice being moved.
Senior associate search
The engine room of a deal practice: deal sheets, client instincts, trajectory.
In-house & financial institutions
Counsel and legal leadership for banks, funds and corporates close to the deal flow.
Method
Search, not sift.
The lawyers you need are rarely looking — they are closing transactions at a competitor. A considered approach reaches them; advertising does not.
Every mandate begins with the market, not a database. What you receive:
- A written market map of the realistic candidate pool
- Deal-sheet and practice evidence for every name we put forward
- A candid view of attainability, timing and packaging
- Structured references, taken with consent, before offer
- Offer, notice and arrival managed through to completion
Track record
Evidence, on request.
We do not publish who we act for. We will gladly show you in person.
No logos, no case studies — our mandates are confidential. In a first conversation we can walk through anonymised recent searches and, where clients permit, direct references.
Engagement
How we are instructed.
A small number of mandates at a time, preferably exclusive — thorough beats fast. Terms are agreed in writing before any work begins, including replacement provisions.
If we are not the right firm for a brief, we will say so at the outset.
Next step
Discuss a mandate.
A conversation about the practice you are building — in confidence, without obligation.