Practice Areas · Finance & Banking · Fund Formation
Fund Formation Recruiters
We map 1,000+ fund formation lawyers across private equity, venture and real assets — giving hiring partners a pre-researched shortlist, not a CV pile.
Inside the Fund Formation market.
Our proprietary Titan AI maps the relevant field first; experienced consultants qualify it by hand. The figures describe the talent market we cover.
- 1,000+
- lawyers with fund formation experience
Fund formation is a technically demanding corner of finance practice where the ability to structure vehicles — limited partnerships, parallel funds, co-investment sleeves, GP-led secondaries — demands a lawyer who is equally fluent in regulatory compliance, investor negotiation and tax efficiency. The talent pool is genuinely narrow, and the best practitioners are rarely visible on the open market.
We have mapped 1,000+ lawyers with demonstrable fund formation experience across private equity, venture capital, hedge fund, real estate and infrastructure strategies. That mapping extends across jurisdictions and firm types: large platform finance practices, specialist boutiques, and in-house counsel at asset managers and institutional investors.
When you engage us, you are not briefing a generalist recruiter who will run a keyword search. You are accessing a pre-researched market picture — seniority, fund type focus, investor-base familiarity, secondment and secondaries exposure — built before your mandate arrives.
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Project Finance recruitersThe searches we run in Fund Formation.
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 moreFund Formation recruitment — common questions
How do you find fund formation lawyers who are not actively looking?
The most capable fund formation practitioners are typically absorbed by deal flow and never post publicly. Our market map covers 1,000+ lawyers identified through structured research rather than job-board activity, so we approach people based on genuine specialism — fund type, investor base, regulatory jurisdiction — rather than keyword proximity.
How many live fund formation roles does Sartori & Partners have?
We have 1242 live fund formation 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 fund formation roles typically offer?
Based on current live mandates, fund formation 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.
Fund Formation
The right fund formation hire begins with a quiet conversation.
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