Experience

Definitive Consulting

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner- APAC Region

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Our Legal Practice Group combines global reach with detailed local market knowledge, acting on behalf of some of the world’s most respected law firms and leading financial institutions specialising in retained search. We work closely with a very select group of global and international clients in addition to those more niche and specialist in nature, which leaves us unfettered by client conflicts and ideally placed to identify and secure the only the very best candidates for every assignment we undertake. Wherever we act on their behalf, our clients receive a recognisable and consistent client-led service focused on genuine consultancy with exclusive access to outstanding people - ensuring they gain a lasting competition advantage. But we never take the quality of our candidates for granted. We draw upon our unrivalled network, which encompasses law firms, accountancy firms, banks, trading firms, asset managers, hedge funds and private equity firms, to carry out discrete due diligence on every individual. Consequently, our Legal Practice Group has a proud record of successfully delivering against every search mandate that we've undertaken to date across Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Show less



Stanford Resourcing Limited

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner and Head of APAC- Legal & Compliance Search

  • Oct 2021 - Feb 2023

  I relocated to Singapore in September 2021 to head up Stanford's business across the APAC region.I specialised in handling search assignments on behalf of leading International Law Firms and Global Financial Institutions for senior lawyers and compliance professionals, as well as providing advice on strategic team build outs and office openings primarily for clients based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney and Melbourne.

• Legal and Compliance Search Consultant- Funds , Private Equity, Restructuring & Securities Trading

  • Jan 2016 - Oct 2021

  Stanford Resourcing are a specialist global legal and compliance search firm, headquartered in London, with offices in Dubai, Dublin and Singapore, and affiliates in Hong Kong and New York. They have been active in the market for over twenty years and offer a combination of retained search work (predominantly at Partner and General Counsel/ CCO level) as well as advising select individuals on both domestic and international moves. I exclusively focused on running senior search mandates for both lawyers and senior compliance professionals across Financial Services with geographical expertise across both Asia Pacific and EMEA, having evenly split my 20 years search experience across both regions. In September 2021 I relocated to Singapore to lead the business across the APAC region. Show less



Jon Michel Executive Search

• Australia
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2014

  Jon Michel Executive Search are one of the leading financial services specialist search and selection practices in Australia. I joined them in early 2011 to build a capability to recruit across the legal space and executed mandates across Asia Pacific for a diverse client base of Investment Banks, Fund Managers and select Top Tier and International Law Firms. I returned to Europe from Australia in the second half of 2014. Jon Michel Executive Search are one of the leading financial services specialist search and selection practices in Australia. I joined them in early 2011 to build a capability to recruit across the legal space and executed mandates across Asia Pacific for a diverse client base of Investment Banks, Fund Managers and select Top Tier and International Law Firms. I returned to Europe from Australia in the second half of 2014.



Ellington Savage Executive Search

• Australia
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Practice Leader, ESperitus

  • Feb 2009 - Jan 2011

  ESperitus were the specialist legal search arm of Ellington Savage, one of Australia's pre-eminent boutique search practices. ESperitus focused on handling senior level mandates for a select group of clients across the world (which encompasses a number of leading Law Firms, Investment Banks and Fund Managers) and were particularly active in Australia, Asia Pacific and Europe. I ran this part of the business with a particular focus on strengthening their offering across Asia, and for financial services clients globally. Show less



Pure Search

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant, Legal and Compliance

  • Sep 2007 - Dec 2008

  Pure Recruitment Group are the UK's leading Tax Recruiter, and I was hired to strengthen their capabilities in the legal space. I exclusively focused on the recruitment of lawyers and compliance professionals into fund management organisations, including both mainstream investment managers and for those that follow alternative investment strategies, such as Private Equity and Hedge Funds. I particularly focused on retained mandates for senior level hires. Pure Recruitment Group are the UK's leading Tax Recruiter, and I was hired to strengthen their capabilities in the legal space. I exclusively focused on the recruitment of lawyers and compliance professionals into fund management organisations, including both mainstream investment managers and for those that follow alternative investment strategies, such as Private Equity and Hedge Funds. I particularly focused on retained mandates for senior level hires.



Laurence Simons

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant, International Banking & Finance

  • Aug 2003 - Aug 2007

  After initially starting as a researcher supporting all areas of the business at this leading international specialist legal recruiter, a opportunity arose to join the banking team when the sole consultant in the division left to set up on his own. I built up the practice focussed on the recruitment of lawyers across financial services, both in the UK and overseas. My particular area of focus was fund management. After initially starting as a researcher supporting all areas of the business at this leading international specialist legal recruiter, a opportunity arose to join the banking team when the sole consultant in the division left to set up on his own. I built up the practice focussed on the recruitment of lawyers across financial services, both in the UK and overseas. My particular area of focus was fund management.



Mountbatten Program

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Coordinator

  • Sep 2001 - Aug 2002

  As part of the Mountbatten Internship Programme, see www.mountbatten.org, I was placed as a intern for a year with a leading Manhattan legal search practice. I supported the Principals and Senior Consultants on retained mandates for team hires and Law firm mergers. As part of the Mountbatten Internship Programme, see www.mountbatten.org, I was placed as a intern for a year with a leading Manhattan legal search practice. I supported the Principals and Senior Consultants on retained mandates for team hires and Law firm mergers.