We concentrate on complex cross-border work where we are engaged by US and UK headquartered law firms to search for Partners and Teams of lawyers in Continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Law firm clients often engage us on the following work:

• Lateral Partners Search;
• Office Openings;
• Lateral Team search where we are engaged to source the best lateral groups in international markets; and
• Practice development where law firm managements wish to expand their offering in a given practice area or geography

International law firms may consider a merger to augment their geographic footprint, to enter a new market, to achieve economies of scale, to better serve clients or for a variety of other reasons.

Effective mergers between law firms require deep knowledge of Financial, Cultural and Strategic aspects of law firms. Crasner Consulting has excellent access to key decision makers and maintains outstanding pedigree in the financial and non-financial aspects of law firms, allowing us to provide the following services to our clients:

• Merger Broking;
• Structuring;
• Merger Searches;
• Boutique law firm sales;

We are retained on “bet the firm” mandates where management teams are looking for unbiased, high quality, honest advice from Consultants who truly understand their business and the wider industry.

We are often engaged by Managing Partners, Chairmen, Chief Strategy Officers, Development Officers or Executive Committees to provide counsel in the following areas:

• Market Entry Studies
• Employer Branding
• Merger compatibility reports
• Financial Analysis
• Market Entry and Feasibility Studies
• Performance Management
• Competitor Analysis
• Client Engagement Programs

Our Consulting practice offers HR Consulting, Strategy Consulting, Management Consulting and Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Consulting.

Crasner Consulting is often asked by market leading Partners to support them as they consider a strategic move to a new platform. These Partners come to Crasner Consulting given that they know we deploy a bespoke, highly targeted and incredibly discreet approach and given that the Crasner team have contacts at the highest echelons of law firm management.

Crasner Consulting takes pride in being a trusted advisor to these Partners, helping them to prepare their strategy for a move, to articulate their business plan and to execute a move of their practice smoothly

We bring our knowledge and our professionalism to this endeavour and what’s more, we give unbiased strategic advice to Partners that we represent.

We do not represent everyone, instead we focus on value-add contingent legal recruitment where we can use our board level contacts to facilitate successful lateral moves and integrations.

Unlike others, we also always do enough referencing and diligence to correctly support these processes and be able to truly represent our Partners and Team candidates, in the best possible way.