LEGAL, GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE
Legal, governance and compliance recruitment for growth businesses
LEGAL, GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE ROLES WE RECRUIT
Building capability as businesses grow in complexity
Growth brings opportunity, but it also brings greater legal, regulatory and governance demands. New investors, larger teams, transactions and public or private market requirements can all change the expertise a business needs
General Counsel and Legal Leadership Recruitment
The point at which a business needs senior in-house legal leadership varies considerably. For some, the catalyst is contractual complexity or international expansion. For others, fundraising, acquisitions or preparation for public markets makes dedicated legal leadership increasingly important. A General Counsel may be a strategic adviser to the CEO and board, lead governance and risk as well as legal, or build an in-house function that reduces reliance on external advisers.
We focus on the legal capability the business needs now, and how that requirement is likely to evolve as it grows.
Board advisory
Transactions and M&A
Commercial legal
Building legal capability
Company Secretary and Governance Recruitment
Non-Executive Director Recruitment
The right Non-Executive Director brings more than an impressive CV. Boards may need particular sector knowledge, financial expertise, public-market experience or governance capability, but NEDs also need the judgement and independence to challenge constructively while building effective relationships with executives, founders and investors. Our focus is on what capability the board is missing, rather than simply adding another senior name.
Compliance and Risk Recruitment
Compliance requirements can change significantly as businesses grow, enter regulated markets or face increasing expectations from investors and boards. The right appointment may be a senior compliance leader capable of shaping the organisation's approach to risk, or a specialist with expertise relevant to a particular regulatory environment.
Compliance Leadership
Risk and Controls
Regulatory Compliance
Financial Crime
Governance and Risk
Policy and Oversight
WHO WE WORK WITH
Legal, governance and compliance recruitment across different business environments
Finding legal, governance and compliance professionals who aren't actively looking
The strongest candidates in these functions are often established and valued within their existing organisations. The challenge also goes beyond job titles. A General Counsel may own governance and risk as well as legal, while Company Secretaries and compliance leaders can have very different remits depending on the organisation, sector and regulatory environment.
Direct headhunting allows us to search by experience, responsibility and environment, rather than relying on titles or candidates actively applying for roles. We identify people whose backgrounds genuinely match the requirement and approach them directly.
Understanding judgement, not just technical expertise
Technical knowledge matters enormously in legal, governance and compliance appointments, but on its own it isn't enough. Senior professionals in these functions often need to balance competing priorities: protecting the organisation without unnecessarily constraining it, challenging senior colleagues while retaining their trust, and applying appropriate rigour in businesses where structures may still be evolving. The right person for a highly regulated organisation may be very different from the right person for a founder-led company building its governance capability for the first time.
We look beyond qualifications and technical experience to understand judgement, commerciality and the environments in which candidates have succeeded. The objective is to find someone who can manage risk effectively while helping the organisation make good decisions and move forward.
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Why Fram Professionals
Fram Professionals specialises in recruitment for VC-backed, AIM-listed, PISCES and founder-led growth businesses. Our sister company, Fram Search, has worked across UK financial services and investment markets for more than sixteen years, giving us access to an established network across investment and venture capital, alongside our own relationships with growth businesses and senior professionals.
Our approach is deliberately headhunting-led. Rather than limiting a search to candidates actively applying for roles, we identify and directly approach people whose experience fits the particular circumstances of the business.
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100%
Retained search completion rate
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