The Halkin Partnership

The Halkin Partnership is a specialist legal executive search and advisory firm based in London. Gordon Gooding, its managing partner, established it in 2008, and it has worked for law firms, banks, corporates and financial services institutions. It says it undertakes work on a global basis, and Gooding has run searches across London, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

The firm places partners, counsel, senior associates and associates, as well as teams, in practice areas including corporate, bank finance, financial services regulation, ESG, investment funds, restructuring and insolvency, capital markets, US securities and tax. Its partners and consultants are aligned to law firms and each has a niche area of expertise.

Alongside retained executive search, it offers market intelligence and competitor analysis, market mapping and independent referencing of individual candidates. It says it chose to remain a boutique firm and reports a completion rate of over 95% on assignments.