Partner Lit; Group Action), Planning, Real Estate Finance, Banking, Corporate

We are a Partner led legal recruitment agency focussing on lateral hires into private practice within London. Our contacts within our client firms are senior lawyers, Heads of Department, Managing Partners and CEO's. We also work with senior non-Partners (Of Counsel / Director / Managing Associates), who have started to nurture their own clients and who are seeking Partnership.

2026 has started in very busy fashion and we have multiple instructions from our client-base (all Lawyer Top 200 firms) including in the 5 areas above

Planning - Senior Associate or Junior Partner to replace a departing lawyer in a Real Estate boutique

Corporate - Strong Mid/Upper Mid market Firm succession planning and keen to bolster at the junior-mid Partner level

Real Estate Finance - Partner needing only half a practice as Firm has work to cross refer

Banking - Extremely strong Finance Firm on multiple lender panels (not main retail / clearing banks) looking for Partner with some of their own Challenger bank, private lender clients

Disputes - Mid market Firm particularly keen to grow their disputes team at Partner level with individuals who are well versed on big ticket class action litigation work

The 5 practice areas mentioned above remain highly sought after by our clients. AtPresent and we have multiple London Firms, (four in one instance) looking to recruit into these disciplines.

If you are a Partner or senior non-Partner and are considering your future and have aspirations of joining a new Firm for whatever reason (current Firm is underperforming or internal issues, concerns about your own performance, difficulties with co-Partners) please get in touch with us for a confidential discussion about the market in your chosen practice area.

We work with individuals who are:

• Fully UK Qualified
• Currently or have recently worked in another leading Law Firm, ideally in the London market
• Have some clients of your own even if that amount is slightly more limited

For a confidential discussion about these and other roles, call our Director, Julian, on  or email us on