Eximius is a global recruitment consultancy that places exceptional lawyers with clients internationally. They identify and recruit top talent across various practice areas for both in-house legal departments and private law firms. The company is headquartered in London but has regional offices in Hong Kong and Dubai, allowing them to serve clients globally with local expertise. They offer permanent and interim recruitment solutions tailored to each client's needs through methods like retained search, market mapping, and diversity initiatives.

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EXPERT TALENT
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2. DIVERSITY
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MEET THE TEAM
An overview of who we are Our services and heritage
Our senior team of experts From our clients and candidatesWhat makes us different
The practice areas we cover
HOW WE DO IT
Our recruitment methods
TESTIMONIALS
IN-HOUSE
FINANCIAL SERVICES
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
PRIVATE PRACTICE
ASSOCIATES
PARTNERS
WHO WE ARE

3. As a global recruitment
consultancy, with local expertise
and market knowledge, Eximius
Law provides specialist
recruitment services to the legal
industry. We identify, appraise
and place exceptional lawyers
with our clients internationally.
Our network of top performing
candidates continues to grow and
our understanding each clients’
business and their industry means
that we are often consulted on
attraction, retention, diversity and
talent strategy.
We provide clients with a
‘panoramic’ view of their chosen
competitor sector by offering
detailed market mapping and
tailored solutions to accompany
our candidate section and data.
WHO WE ARE

4. OUR HERITAGE & REGIONS
In order to deliver a unified client strategy we partner with a local and global talent network,
unparalleled in our specialised markets. Headquartered in the City of London, Eximius has
created a uniquely connected partnership with Asia and the Middle East, headquartered in
Hong Kong and Dubai respectively.
Eximius Law has been providing specialist recruitment services to the legal industry since 2008.
We have the strength that comes with being part of the Eximius Group. Operating from Hong
Kong, Dubai and London, our brands Eximius Energy, Eximius Financial and Eximius Law serve
their respective markets within each region and beyond.
Eximius has an established reputation as a specialist search and selection firm. Our global reach
enables us to offer our clients’ access to the very best candidates and our candidates the
opportunity to conduct a global career search exclusively with one agency.

5. We offer clients the full range of
headhunting and recruiting services:
Practice disciplines include:
OUR SERVICES
• Advisory services
• Contingent selection
• Law firm acquisitions, ‘bolt-ons’, mergers
and other strategic initiatives
• Market research reports/analysis
• Named headhunting
• Partner and team moves
• Retained search assignments
• Retained candidate instruction
• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Competition
• Corporate and commercial
• Dispute resolution
• Employment and pensions
• Funds
• ISDA negotiators
• Regulatory and compliance
• Real estate
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation and structured finance
• Tax
As your trusted advisor, our service promise is quite simply to exceed client
expectations - delivering on time, every time, within budget and to brief.

6. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Leveraging the Eximius Financial and Eximius Law client base, the
Hong Kong in-house legal team delivers on roles across investment
banks, corporate banks, private banks, asset management firms,
insurance firms, securities and brokerages. With extensive networks
and resources, our team has built strong client relationships across
Asia, covering Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing Tokyo
and Australia.
Our in-depth understanding of the financial services market
enables the team to effectively source the full range of legal
positions. From Junior Counsel to General Counsel, regulatory and
compliance positions, to areas such as employment and tax.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Our commerce and industry team focuses on permanent and
interim solutions, providing tier 1 candidates ranging from
Junior Counsel through to General Counsel.
Our client base in Asia includes companies from all over the
world. We pride ourselves on handling mandates both from
clients who have just created a new legal department and
those with larger, more established in-house legal teams.
The sectors we cover include property, construction,
engineering, telecoms media and technology, fast moving
consumer goods, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, life
sciences and logistics.
IN-HOUSE

7. Our specialist private practice team assists national and international law firms
with their permanent and interim recruitment needs. Our consultants place
lawyers across all sectors, from newly qualified solicitors to senior partners.
We also have significant experience with high profile legal team moves.
We apply an unparalleled depth of understanding of the legal market to assist
our clients. We take a proactive and focused approach, working in partnership
with candidates and clients to meet each party’s objective.
Compliance remains a growing market with significant demand across Asia.
As the market matures, demand often exceeds local supply of talent. We
specialise in sourcing the top talent for our clients through employing
alternative search processes and techniques.
Our well networked, experienced consultants have an in-depth understanding
of the evolving regulatory space across the region. We draw on the resources
of the Eximius Law global network as required.
The team provides expertise across mid to senior level; transformation,
advisory, policy, training, communication, control, monitoring, surveillance,
investigation, intelligence, enforcement, controls, anti bribery, corruption, data
privacy, marketing, reputational risk and ethics.
PRIVATE PRACTICE
COMPLIANCE

8. HOW WE DO IT
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PERMANENT SOLUTIONS
We have specialist permanent consultants
within each of our industry sectors. They work
on mid to senior level roles and cover single
vacancies as well as multiple requirements and
complete team moves. Our consultants work
closely with clients to understand their exact
requirements to ensure a lasting fit.
INTERIM AND CONTRACT SOLUTIONS
We have made a significant investment in our
temporary interim and contract business. We
manage assignments that require a single
specialist through to those that need an
integrated team.
MARKET MAPPING
Mapping, shortlisting and profit and loss reviews
are tailored to client requirements. Our market
maps feature profiles and CVs for each
candidate, and charts illustrating seniority and
reporting lines.
MANAGED SERVICES
Our managed services offer an integrated
recruitment service for human resource teams.
An Eximius consultant with experience in the
client sector is placed in-house to focus solely
on client recruitment requirements.
RETAINED SEARCH
Working on a retained basis, through a
structured payment plan, ensures that a search
team can act as an extension of the client’s
recruitment team. The project specific team is
led by a dedicated ‘delivery consultant’ and
supported by researchers. The team operates in
a highly, structured manner to successfully
deliver critical assignments.
We employ a range of recruitment methods to
ensure that we are offering the most
appropriate service and delivery to our clients.

9. Diversity is a key priority for our
clients and ourselves, we are
committed to supporting clients
by attracting a diverse range of
qualified candidates. We maintain a
diverse talent pool through ongoing
networking and by supporting
potential candidates. We use our
database to track diversity and
regularly review additions to specific
candidate groups.
Our directors are tasked with
ensuring that consultants focus on
innovative sourcing techniques to
achieve a varied candidate profile.
We are also committed to hiring a
diverse range of consultants. Our
belief is that diversity across our
consultants will help maintain
diversity across our talent pools.
DIVERSITY

10. MEET THE TEAM
Nathan Smith
Director, Asia
As Eximius Asia Pacific’s Country Director,
Nathan is responsible for the Hong Kong
office and heads up the in-house legal
team. Nathan joined Eximius in 2013 to
build the legal recruitment offering and lead
operations in Asia for Eximius Group. He has
extensive knowledge of both the Hong Kong
financial services and commercial legal
recruitment markets. Nathan has over eight
years’ experience recruiting and leading
teams across London, Sydney, Singapore and
Hong Kong.
E: nathan.smith@eximius.com
T: +852 3978 5027
Angus Ropner
Head of Private Practive, Principle
Consultant
Angus joined Eximius in 2011 having graduated
in Business Management from Newcastle
University. Angus heads up the Eximius Law
private practice desk, relocating from our
London office to Hong Kong in 2014. Angus is
a specialist in advising lawyers of all levels and
disciplines moving between both UK and US law
firms. He has placed Associates, Partners and
teams both in and out of leading US and
UK law firms in London and Asia with a
particular expertise in placements within the
corporate, litigation and finance space.
E: angus.ropner@eximius.com
T: +852 3978 5029
Kate Reid
Associate Director, Asia
Kate has been in the industry for ten years,
six of which were in Hong Kong. Kate delivers
talent services to both candidates and clients
across the region, managing a team of specialist
recruiters in risk, compliance and audit. Kate is
also a steering committee member of Woman in
Finance Asia, Mentor to the HKU MBA Women
in Leadership Club, and committee member of
APSCO’s Women in Recruitment. In addition,
Kate is the Founder of Suits for Success Asia.
Kate leads Corporate Relations and Fundraisers
for Project Share, a charity that works to bridge
the social divide for under privileged youths in
Hong Kong.
E: kate.reid@eximius.com
T: +852 3978 5030

11. The consultants I worked with at Eximius were professional,
careful and knew the legal market in Hong Kong well. They were
also a cheerful and personable person which makes working with
them fun and enjoyable. I would recommend Eximius to anyone
looking for a recruiter.”
General counsel, tier 1 U.S. Bank, Asia
“
Eximius has proven to be a very talented recruitment
company, able to correctly interpret the needs of our
organization, provide sound advice and always deliver high
profile candidates. Eximius has proven to be an extremely
valuable resource for the development of our legal growth
plan in Asia for which I’m sincerely grateful.”
Group Head GC, Asia
“Eximius have worked with us on our department hiring needs
both in Hong Kong and our other offices in Asia and the Middle
East. While a number of recruitment firms will happily put
forward qualified candidates they have at hand at the time,
Eximius have proven to be adept at conducting a focused and
thoughtful search for a select group of candidates that meet our
complex needs. Most of all, we appreciate the enthusiasm
generated by Eximius Law and the candidates they have found
for us.
Senior Vice President Business and Legal Affairs and General
Counsel, Fox International Channels, Asia
“
Eximius facilitated my big move back to Singapore in many
ways. They filtered out unsuitable options (instead of
recommending every available position) and helped to keep
the search focused, short and sweet.”
Attorney, Asia
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TESTIMONIALS

12. EUROPE HEADQUARTERS
155 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 6AL UK
E: info@eximius.com T: +44 (0) 20 7648 6990
MENA HEADQUARTERS
First Floor, Building 6, Knowledge Village, Dubai UAE
E: mena@eximius.com T: +971 (0) 4424 9376
HONG KONG HEADQUARTERS
Level 6, Citibank Tower, Citibank Plaza, 3 Garden Road, Central Hong Kong
E: asia@eximius.com T: +852 3978 5033
www.eximius.com