Practice Areas · Finance & Banking · Fintech
Fintech Recruiters
We map 500+ fintech lawyers — specialists in digital assets, payments, and embedded finance — and place them where it matters.
Inside the Fintech market.
Our proprietary Titan AI maps the relevant field first; experienced consultants qualify it by hand. The figures describe the talent market we cover.
- 500+
- lawyers with fintech experience
Fintech is not a subset of financial services law — it is a discipline of its own, where payments infrastructure, digital assets, embedded finance, and regulatory technology converge at a pace that most conventional hiring processes cannot match. The lawyers who excel here hold a rare combination: deep regulatory literacy across banking, e-money, and market-structure frameworks alongside the commercial fluency to work with founders, engineers, and compliance teams in the same breath.
We map 500+ lawyers with documented fintech experience across the full spectrum — licensing and e-money authorisations, open banking and API commercialisation, crypto-asset regulation, BNPL structuring, and cross-border payments. Our coverage spans practitioners at every seniority, from associates who have grown up inside specialist fintech practices to partners who have advised on category-defining licensing applications and M&A exits.
Because we work from a continuously maintained talent map rather than a reactive database, we can surface candidates with the precise regulatory or transactional profile a fintech mandate requires — including lawyers not actively looking, who represent the most consequential hires in a thin specialist market.
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Leveraged Finance recruitersThe searches we run in Fintech.
Law-firm and corporate mandates alike — from a confidential lateral partner move to a first general counsel — each run on the same evidence-led method.
Lateral Partner & Practice-Group Moves
Confidential lateral partners and practice-group lift-outs, assessed on portable business, conflicts and platform fit.
Explore this search 02In-House & General Counsel
GC, deputy GC and senior counsel for companies operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Explore this search 03Associate & Counsel Recruiting
Mid-level and senior associates and counsel, matched on practice depth and trajectory, not keywords.
Explore this search 04Compliance & Regulatory Leadership
Chief compliance officers and regulatory leaders for the most heavily supervised practices.
Explore this searchBoth sides of the search.
For law firms
Lateral partners, practice groups and associates — a shortlist drawn from the full field of a practice, not a rented database.
Learn moreFor companies
General counsel, compliance and legal-operations leaders for businesses building or scaling a legal function.
Learn moreFor candidates
Considering a move? We approach senior lawyers privately and confidentially — nothing moves without your say-so.
Learn moreFintech recruitment — common questions
How do you find fintech lawyers who are not actively on the market?
Our research function maintains a live map of 500+ lawyers with verifiable fintech experience, built through direct engagement rather than job-board monitoring. Because most high-calibre specialists in payments, crypto regulation, or e-money licensing are not circulating their CVs, proactive mapping is the only reliable way to reach them. We approach candidates confidentially and with a specific mandate, which produces a materially higher response rate than advertised search.
How many live fintech roles does Sartori & Partners have?
We have 1242 live fintech roles across our coverage, spanning 745 partner-level and 497 associate or counsel positions. Mandates in this area are typically confidential and off-market — these are only the roles we are actively able to share. Contact us to discuss what else is live.
What compensation do fintech roles typically offer?
Based on current live mandates, fintech role compensation in the US runs $100k–$550k. This reflects only the roles where the hiring organisation has authorised us to share a range publicly — many mandates are structured around the right candidate rather than a fixed band. Contact us for a candid benchmark for your specific profile.
Fintech
The right fintech hire begins with a quiet conversation.
Tell us the mandate — we will tell you candidly whether we are the right firm to run it. No obligation, complete discretion.