CLARC Recruitment

CLARC is a specialised legal, audit, risk and compliance (LARC) recruitment firm primarily serving the financial services industry. The company has offices in London and New York and possesses extensive experience recruiting across various locations. CLARC adopts a quality over quantity approach, committed to identifying executives for roles including general counsel, chief compliance officer and chief risk officer. The company assists organisations in hiring personnel at all levels within the LARC functions. CLARC's partners bring over 30 years' combined recruitment experience across legal, audit, risk and compliance disciplines.

CLARC specialises across four core areas. In legal recruitment, the company places general counsel, heads of legal, transactional lawyers, regulatory lawyers and paralegals. In compliance recruitment, the company recruits chief compliance officers, regional heads of compliance, regulatory compliance specialists and financial crime compliance professionals. In risk management, CLARC places chief risk officers, investment risk specialists, credit risk managers, market risk specialists, operational and enterprise risk professionals and security risk specialists. In audit recruitment, the company serves investment banking and brokerage firms, fixed income, equities, commodities, foreign exchange and derivatives operations. CLARC also works with investment management, hedge funds, private markets, real estate, private wealth management and fintech sectors.

CLARC differentiates itself through a unique edge: the company's partners both worked in-house in compliance teams prior to moving into recruitment, giving them a deeper understanding of hiring requirements in the legal and governance sectors. The company maintains a quality not quantity approach, with over 60 per cent of successful placements in 2022 resulting from sending fewer than 5 CVs for each role. CLARC serves as a one-agency solution covering legal, audit, risk and compliance requirements.