Keythorpe Partners

Keythorpe Partners is a founder-led retained search and human capital advisory firm that specialises in European real estate financial services. It works for real estate investors and operators building teams, and fills roles from senior leadership and management down to junior staff.

Its search work is organised in three clusters. Investing and origination covers equity and debt investment, special situations and capital markets. Asset and portfolio management covers asset management, portfolio management, loan servicing, NPL, restructuring and workouts. Platform and firm-building covers investor relations, fundraising, corporate development, M&A and senior management for growing investment platforms. The firm takes retained and exclusive mandates and multi-hire campaigns, and does selective contingent recruitment for existing clients. Execution is in the UK and Europe, with access to international talent pools.

It also offers interim consultancy, remuneration benchmarking, behavioural assessment, team moves, and deal and non-executive introductions. It reports a track record of more than 15 years, over 50 successful placements, and 75% of placements with repeat clients.