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Our Taylor Root Hong Kong office was established in 1998 and we have built an extensive network of contacts and clients thoughout the Asian region. We are considered one of the premier specialist legal recruitment firms in Asia.

Our Private Practice team acts on behalf of the top international and premier local law firms and are involved in recruiting high-calibre lawyers in a number of fields at both the associate and Partner level. We regularly conduct assignments throughout Asia including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, the PRC, Korea and Bangkok.

Our In-house team assists leading multinationals and international investment banks in finding the very best legal talent. We have a successful track record of recruiting legal counsel at all levels including General Counsel assignments and junior lawyers moving in-house for the first time. An increasing trend in the region has been to assist our International clients seek their first Asian legal counsel and help establish a legal department in the region. Our expertise ranges across the broad spectrum of in-house roles and we have completed assignments in the fields of IT/IP, Corporate, Hospitality, Insurance, Media, Oil & Gas, Telecoms, Banking, Derivatives, Asset Management and Transaction Management. In addition, we have been busy assisting our clients build their compliance functions and documentation teams in the major financial centres of Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Our recruitment consultants are highly experienced, professional and are experts in their specialised fields. Our approach is to identify the best possible legal talent for our clients using our extensive contacts throughout the region. Our website advertisements attract attention from lawyers around the world and our practices in the UK, Hong Kong and Sydney are truly international ones, resulting in an excellent supply of experienced candidates wishing to relocate to Asia. We can lend our expertise to formulating a tailor-made solution for our clients and are able to offer a number of recruitment options in order to help identify the best candidates, whether by advertisement, database or targeted search.