Case study
About the client
Our client, SIA “ZAB Elleks Kļaviņš”, is one of the largest law firms in the Baltics, with a team of more than 250 lawyers and legal professionals. The company is an internationally recognized and award-winning legal services provider that has been operating in the Baltics for more than 30 years.
Goal
The company needed an M&A lawyer whose job was to ensure that the purchase, sale, merger or division of the company took place safely, legally correctly and with minimum risk. An M&A lawyer participates in transactions where one company buys another, a company is sold to investors, a merger takes place, a company is split or restructured or a shareholding restructuring process takes place. They review company contracts, analyse risks (such as litigation and tax liabilities), evaluate intellectual property, review the status of property and assets, prepare contracts, structure transactions and coordinate all parties involved..
Since M&A lawyers work with highly complex legal documents, this is one of the most specialized and sought-after profiles in the legal field; there are few such people, and they are not usually actively looking for work. In addition, a good M&A lawyer must not only be professionally competent, but also analytical, very precise, a good negotiator, business-minded, able to work with large amounts of data and able to react quickly to various changes.
About the recruitment process
Despite the complex profile and limited pool of potential candidates, we successfully found such a candidate within four weeks using a headhunting or direct approach, receiving positive feedback from our client.
Feedback from SIA “ZAB Ellex Kļaviņš”:
“The law firm “ZAB Ellex Kļaviņš” (hereinafter referred to as the Office) has collaborated with SIA “Human Source” on several talent acquisition and employee recruitment projects. The professionals at SIA “Human Source” have the ability to delve into the specifics of the Office and our particular needs, to understand the profiles of vacancies and their nuances. Market research was carried out at a very high level in order to address suitable candidates. During the project, SIA “Human Source” strictly adhered to the deadlines and schedules we had agreed upon, planned meetings with candidates in a timely manner, and coordinated the availability of the Office and candidates. SIA “Human Source” communicates about the project as a whole, its stages, and results in a direct, clear, and easily understandable manner. During the project, SIA “Human Source” professionally assessed the competencies of the candidates and also evaluated them using personality tests, which gave us, as the client, the opportunity to better understand a candidate’s personality in order to make a decision about which candidate we wanted to offer the job to. We consider the professionals at SIA “Human Source” to be high-calibre specialists, and if in the future we should need support and cooperation in personnel recruitment, talent attraction, or employee assessment, SIA “Human Source” will be the partners we want to work with.”