Fox Rodney Search focuses on partner placements. Our experience is broad and has included senior hires for leading international law firms, new office openings, boutiques, in-house placements as well as cross-border partner moves.

Team moves are becoming increasingly common and are an important factor in achieving a firm’s overall strategic growth objectives. The complexities of targeting a whole team make a large and highly proficient research function imperative to a successful outcome. Maximising the team opportunity, and ensuring completion requires particular skill, and Fox Rodney Search has extensive experience with team moves. This includes the landmark move of a twelve partner TMT team to DLA Piper LLP, which is the largest legal team move in the UK ever.

As global law practices continue to expand and consolidation amongst firms increases, office launches across Europe, the Middle East and Asia are a continued focus. The costs of opening in new markets are significant for even the largest partnerships, so there is a meaningful premium placed on incorporating the right team. Every market is different and requires both cultural sensitivity and a keen understanding of local economics. Fox Rodney Search has assisted firms with global expansion plans in Europe and the Middle East for many years, using market research and tailored searches to achieve success in highly competitive markets.

• Investment Banks
• Investment Managers
• Retail Banks
• Insurance Companies
• Corporates

• General Counsel
• Head of Legal
• Company Secretary
• Transaction Manager
• Senior In-House Lawyer

Our team is experienced in running retained search mandates for Heads of Compliance and senior compliance officers within the financial services sector.

• Investment Banks
• Investment Managers

• Head of Compliance
• Money Laundering Reporting Officer
• Head of Team

The Directors’ experience includes advising on the key issues surrounding mergers and associations. With every merger comes the challenge of harmonising distinct cultures and structures, and through a carefully planned and focused search, the best suited merger partner can be found.

By employing an in-house team of research associates, Fox Rodney Search has a uniquely high ratio of research professionals to consultants. Their meticulous work underpins every project, as the team spends four to six weeks identifying and evaluating potential hires. We believe that one of the most significant factors that has contributed to our success is our team’s unrivalled insight into the legal sector.

Crucially, the time we put into research ensures that a prospective hire is never oversold - or overlooked. Without rigorous checks, it would be all too easy to exaggerate a candidate’s suitability. Equally, we uncover the potential of people who would be missed by anything but the most thorough of investigations.

Clients are increasingly drawing from their confidence in Fox Rodney Search’s capabilities, using our research function as a service in its own right. The market intelligence we deliver is now informing a diverse range of business strategies, not necessarily directly related to lateral hires.

These include:

• Due Diligence Services
Many recruiters do not conduct due diligence on their candidates as part of the recruitment process. It’s not their job. Of course, you can undertake it in-house. But are partners, or even HR professionals, really the best people to elicit this information? Fox Rodney Search has established the leading methodology for obtaining and providing objective, independent due diligence, which we offer as a discrete service to law firms, corporates and financial institutions. Please see (link) for more information on this important service.


• Market Mapping
Where clients are considering making a hire or entering a new market and wish to gather data relating to that market, Fox Rodney Search can undertake a market mapping project. Clients also instruct Fox Rodney Search to conduct mapping exercises as part of the early stage preparations in making a hire. This will involve mapping out the entire relevant market and will provide the client with extensive information, enabling the organisation to make choices about its strategic growth needs, and to be fully prepared and to move quickly if they decide to move forward. Frequently, a market mapping exercise is a critical component of a competitor analysis project.


• Competitor Analysis and Perception Surveys
Many of our clients are concerned with their positioning in the market and market perception. These issues are closely interlinked with attracting and retaining both employees and clients. Fox Rodney Search can undertake a competitor analysis or market perception survey which will enable client organisations to understand how their competitors are organised and/or how they are perceived in the market by clients and/or their peer organisations. This will assist in identifying weak spots in a practice or organisation and will often result in changes that can strengthen the business and ultimately improve the bottom line.


• Compensation Benchmarking and Analysis
Fox Rodney Search undertakes compensation benchmarking projects on behalf of in-house clients. A compensation benchmarking project assists clients in ensuring that their compensation structure is competitive and in line with the market, so that they are not falling prey to threats from competitors.


• Market and Compensation Reports
Fox Rodney Search produces an annual Market and Compensation Report covering the Investment Banking Legal Market and we can produce more tailored reports for individual clients.