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Specialist recruitment search and advisory

Aventum Search provides specialist recruitment search and advisory services across the global legal and financial services markets, combining in-depth sector knowledge, an extensive international network and a targeted approach to identifying exceptional senior talent.

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RECRUITMENT

We can help you select and hire outstanding individuals and teams that will make a positive impact to your company. Our extensive contact base of experienced professionals is ready and waiting to boost your workforce.

STRATEGY

With our support, management teams can easily execute complex hiring strategies. Clear planning and a proactive approach enable you to successfully identify, recruit and hire brilliant people.

ADVISORY

We can share intelligent insights and data regarding organisational strategy, as well as recommend on talent acquisition, rewards and benefits, leadership development, and diversity and inclusion.

EXECUTIVE
SEARCH AND
ADVISORY

We are a specialist agency focusing on private and legal markets. We work with both established and emerging organisations on designed search projects, such as individual specialist hires, team moves, integration initiatives and strategic acquisitions. In addition to retained exclusive search, we work on select contingency assignments for a cross section of premium law, finance and insurance sector clients.
 
We identify, attract and recruit the finest talent, and have done for more than a decade in legal service markets, private practice and corporates, as well as high-growth capital providers and private funds. Our expertise covers all major geographical locations, across the US, UK, Europe and Asia. A long track record hiring for sponsors and their portfolios, a network tied together by capital, where searches regularly intersect.

Precision Market insight

The sophistication in our market knowledge and business intelligence means we have the deep insight to navigate even the most challenging market conditions. We work through complex and often strategic hiring roadblocks, providing businesses with the opportunity to flourish.

Specialty Finance

Trusted advisors to credit and sponsor clients, alternative asset investors and litigation finance funds. Primary specialisation in legal assets and distressed assets and special situations hiring. Expertise in working with legal and investment finance professionals across the globe.

Specialty Insurance

Developed expertise supporting established speciality insurance teams focused on Contingent Legal Risk, M&A and W&I Insurance, as well as niche associated areas. Focus on qualified insurance, investment finance and legal hires.

Legal Services

Depth of knowledge across all technical specialisms, supporting major international law firms and corporates on qualified legal hiring across our core geographical areas. Exposure to varied practice areas across the full range of contentious and non-contentious areas and sectors.

ADAPTING TO THE
EVER CHANGING
MARKET CONDITIONS

We have the experience to react quickly to the market and support companies to achieve strategic hiring objectives. By talking to industry experts and professionals, we have a deep understanding of the marketplace’s past, present and future movements (some of which we share in our News section).
 
With our comprehensive market knowledge and targeted support, you can navigate difficult periods, such as changes in government legislation or regulatory environment, impacting the loss of revenue or services, as it relates to personnel. Plus, we can advise on solutions as the political landscape changes, ensuring you’re making decisions with the latest information.

WHO WE WORK WITH

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Jared helped craft the brief, mapped the market with intelligence. The project considered both technical and behavioural competency, with clear updates and data provided weekly. Best in class within transactional risks and will continue to trust him with new assignments.

Major Litigation Fund

Jared has a real command of the litigation finance market and understands how the dynamics differ from one geography to the next. His two years at Augusta Ventures mean he can speak credibly to candidates about what a role actually involves. Structured, organised and honest throughout. I would instruct him again.

Large specialty fund.

Thiago is a delight to work with. We have enjoyed a fruitful working relationship and continue to instructed him on our new associate roles as a preferred agent.

Silver circle law firm

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