Fox Rodney Search focuses on partner placements as well as dealing with senior assistants or associates who are seeking partnership. Our experience is broad and has included senior hires from and to the Magic Circle, US law firm start ups, in-house placements and international partner moves.

Team moves are becoming increasingly common in the UK market. 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 can require particular skill, and Fox Rodney Search has extensive experience of team moves. This includes the landmark move of a twelve partner TMT team to DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP, which is the largest legal team move in the UK ever.

• 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.

Research

By employing an in-house team of six, Fox Rodney Search has a uniquely high ratio of researchers to consultants. Their meticulous work underpins every project; typically, the team spends four to six weeks identifying and evaluating potential hires. And, because our team is in-house, we retain total control over the research process. We believe that one of the most significant factors that has contributed to our success is the team’s unrivalled insight into the legal sector.

Crucially, the time we put into research ensures 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.

In fact, due to the confidence they have in its capabilities, clients are increasingly drawing on 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.

Market Intelligence Services

As well as our executive search services, Fox Rodney Search provides a range of market intelligence services to clients. These include:

• Due Diligence Services

Many recruiters don’t 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? After all, it’s not their job either. 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.
• Market Mapping

Where clients are considering making a hire or entering a new market and wish to gather data relating to that new market, Fox Rodney Search can undertake a market mapping project. Clients also instruct Fox Rodney Search to conduct a mapping exercise 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 be fully prepared and to move quickly if they decide there is a need to make a hire. Frequently, a market mapping exercise is linked with 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 positive changes, including an increase in revenues.
• 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 on a par with the market.
• Market and Compensation Reports

Fox Rodney Search produces an annual Market and Compensation Report covering the Investment Banking Legal Market.