Crasner Consulting, a high-quality executive search and consulting firm is expanding and is looking for high calibre, ambitious consultants to join its outstanding team in London. Please get in contact if you feel you would be a strong fit to our high performing team.
The Role
Job Title: Associate – Legal Search & Consulting
Salary: Lucrative basic salary, annual bonus (team and personal)
Location: City of London (with EMEA and other international travel)
Reporting to: Nick Crasner, Partner & Managing Director
About us
Crasner Consulting is a legal search & consulting firm, which supports US and UK law firms with its expansion into Africa, Asia, Continental Europe and the Middle East.
We have a rich and unique culture matched by an unrivalled track record helping law firm clients on their international strategy and to source teams, entire firms and Partners. Our clients are the executive board of leading US and UK law firms. Our projects include launching offices, effecting mergers and assisting law firms to ‘bulk up’ in strategic practice areas. We complement our legal search activity with our strategic consultancy offering, allowing our clients to benefit from our extensive experience when facing complex issues. We also broker introductions with target clients and have dedicated experience of handling law firm mergers. We compete with the global top four retained executive search firms and strategy consultants of the highest order.
We are a dynamic, team-orientated firm and only want to be engaged on the most exciting assignments in our space.
We regularly help law firms expand into new markets and have been involved in an office opening, merger and practice launch every year for nearly a decade. Our clients often use our insight and execution fire power to help with developing their emerging markets footprint and we are regularly called upon for key assignments that will have a material impact on the firm.
Job Description
- Conduct detailed, high quality research into the law firm sector, mainly focussing on the EMEA region;
- Provide detailed insight (for internal and external use) on the investment flows within the private practice law firm sector;
- Assist with winning new mandates; this will involve preparing for pitches, drafting proposals and attending business development meetings to show our industry and geographic knowledge
- Project manage assignments, by delivering short lists to clients, reports and coordinating meetings and interviews on an international scale;
- Produce robust market maps, market overviews and research papers on market activity;
- Create and maintain relevant documents for a search assignment, including: feasibility studies, market feedback, proposals, terms of business, candidate reports, candidate briefings, client presentations, memos, offer documents and more.
- Cold call, meet and network within the target candidate group in a given practice areas or market;
- Keep accurate records of searches, candidates, meetings and coordinate relevant project management with clients.
- Working with our dedicated management consulting team, you will advise on and generate interesting management consulting and merger assignments in the geographies where we have expertise;
- Assist or lead presentations and advice to the board of law firms, particularly focussing on international strategy, expansion, restructuring and other relevant issues.
- Travel on specific projects and business development activities;
- Regular administration, budgeting, managing expenses and other duties to benefit the team.
Ideal Candidate
- You are likely to be a young professional with around 1 year’s work experience in a fast-paced, corporate environment;
- You will have excellent communication skills and able to influence a senior audience in person and on the phone
- You will be interested in the business and operations of a law firm (consulting)
- A genuine team player who is smart, ambitious, dynamic and able to influence a highly sophisticated client base;
- You will be organised, well presented and capable of developing business, providing advice to our clients and executing high profile assignments;
- European, Asian and Arabic Language skills are highly desirable for this position, but not a requirement.
The Role
Job Title: Principal – Legal Search & Consulting
Salary: Lucrative basic salary, annual bonus (team and personal)
Location: City of London (with EMEA and other international travel)
Reporting to: Nick Crasner, Partner & Managing Director
About us
Crasner Consulting is a legal search & consulting firm, which supports US and UK law firms with its expansion into Africa, Asia, Continental Europe and the Middle East.
We have a rich and unique culture matched by an unrivalled track record helping law firm clients on their international strategy and to source teams, entire firms and Partners. Our clients are the executive board of leading US and UK law firms. Our projects include launching offices, effecting mergers and assisting law firms to ‘bulk up’ in strategic practice areas. We complement our legal search activity with our strategic consultancy offering, allowing our clients to benefit from our extensive experience when facing complex issues. We also broker introductions with target clients and have dedicated experience of handling law firm mergers. We compete with the global top four retained executive search firms and strategy consultants of the highest order.
We are a dynamic, team-orientated firm and only want to be engaged on the most exciting assignments in our space.
We regularly help law firms expand into new markets and have been involved in an office opening, merger and practice launch every year for nearly a decade. Our clients often use our insight and execution fire power to help with developing their emerging markets footprint and we are regularly called upon for key assignments that will have a material impact on the firm.
Job Description
Business Development & Relationship management
- Generate and attend pitches to clients / target clients;
- Help to expand our client relationships in a multi-layered fashion where we look to build deep relationships across the management structure of law firms;
- Maintain a wide variety of discussions and contact with decision makers as we look to partner with law firms expanding into/in our core markets (Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East);
- Network at industry seminars, conferences and other events with a view to generating new relationships and deepening existing client relationships;
- Source and expand on commercial opportunities which are revenue generating for the business (with a strong emphasis on marketing the team and involving colleagues);
- Provide regular insight into your community by producing articles, thought leadership and materials that add value to our target contact base.
Execution
- Conduct detailed, high quality research into markets and practice areas; producing robust market maps, market overviews and research papers on market activity;
- Create and maintain relevant documents for a search assignment, including: feasibility studies, market feedback, proposals, terms of business, candidate reports, CVs, candidate briefings, clients presentations, memos, offer documents and more.
- Call, meet and network within the target candidate group in a given practice areas or market;
- Source interesting and relevant articles around a particular assignment and distribute relevant information to clients and candidates;
- Keep accurate records of searches, candidates, meetings and coordinate relevant project management with clients.
Consulting & Mergers
- Working with our dedicated management consulting team, you will advise on and generate interesting management consulting and merger assignments in the geographies where we have expertise;
- Assist or lead presentations and advice to the board of law firms, particularly focussing on international strategy, expansion, restructuring and other relevant issues.
Management & Others
- Our Principals are skilled experts who will work with Partners, other Principals, Associates, Researchers, and Administrative staff. This will require a genuine ability to work in teams where there will be various degrees of management;
- Assist and coordinate internal recruitment initiatives to source the best people in the market;
- Travel on specific projects and business development activities;Regular administration, budgeting, managing expenses and other duties to benefit the team.
Ideal Candidate
- You are likely to have between 3–7 years of executive search or recruitment experience in the legal or another professional service sector;
- We would also be open to individuals from a legal or consulting background who have international experience;
- A genuine team player who is smart, ambitious, dynamic and able to influence a highly sophisticated client base;
- You will be organised, well presented and capable of developing business, providing advice to our clients and executing high profile assignments;
- Language skills are highly desirable.