Anglezarke brings law and financial services firms the relationships, strategic counsel, and talent most never build in-house — so leadership can focus on the work that built their reputation.
Start a conversationThe thread running through all of this: specialist talent and relationships for firms where reputation is the whole business.
End-to-end recruitment across law, financial services, investor relations, and corporate communications — one search practice for every senior hire a firm makes.
Strategic consulting on how a firm manages its relationships with investors, the market, and the public — independent of any search mandate.
Warm, curated introductions to General Counsel, CFOs, Heads of Investor Relations, and other C-suite decision-makers, backed by bespoke pitch strategy.
Coaching for the leaders of the firms we represent — helping partners and senior executives build the leadership capacity that growth demands.
Anglezarke is a village in the moors of Lancashire, England — home to our founder, Michael Whitehead. It's an unusual name, and that's rather the point: in a market full of interchangeable advisory firms, distinction isn't a liability.
The firm takes its bearing from a familiar image — a train moving through a tunnel toward the light at the far end. Growth, for most law firms and financial institutions, feels much the same: a passage that takes trust, momentum, and someone who already knows the way through. That's the role Anglezarke exists to play.
In the legal industry and the financial services sector, trust is the ultimate currency. Every introduction we make, every referral we structure, and every hire we place is grounded in authentic, long-term relationships — never transactional connections.
We hold ourselves to the standards of the profession we serve. Our engagements are governed by clear scopes, measurable outcomes, and honest counsel — even when the honest answer is difficult.
Law firms, legal departments, and financial institutions operate in a world of confidentiality. Anglezarke treats all client information, strategy discussions, and candidate data with the highest level of professional discretion.
We are measured by outcomes, not activities. Whether it's a signed retainer, an executed referral agreement, or a partner-level placement, we focus relentlessly on delivering tangible value.
Each discipline can be engaged independently, but the greatest value is realized when clients draw on them together as one integrated growth strategy.
We provide end-to-end recruitment across law firms, financial services firms, and the investor relations and corporate communications functions that support them — attorneys, partners, bankers, and senior communications leaders — paired with strategic counsel on growth, succession, and expansion.
The competition for senior talent has never been steeper, whether the mandate is a partner-level lateral, a senior banker, or a Head of Investor Relations. These hires can make or break a firm's strategy, and attrition drains profitability and institutional knowledge. Anglezarke offers sector-specific recruitment that understands licensing, book of business, practice fit, and compensation structure — across legal, financial services, and investor relations and corporate communications alike.
We advise on investor relations and corporate communications strategy — how a firm positions itself to investors, the market, and the public, particularly around raises, listings, leadership transitions, and other moments that put a firm's reputation on the line.
As firms grow, how they communicate with investors, regulators, and the market becomes as consequential as the work itself — yet IR and corporate communications strategy is too often built reactively, in the middle of a raise or a crisis, rather than in advance. Anglezarke brings dedicated strategic counsel to this function, independent of any search mandate.
We draw on deep industry connections to introduce law and financial services firms to potential corporate clients — General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, CFOs, Heads of Investor Relations, and other C-suite executives — through warm, curated introductions backed by bespoke pitch strategy.
Most firms are exceptional at their core work but structurally weak at business development. Cold outreach rarely works at the C-suite level, and even partners often lack access to the executive relationships that convert to major client mandates. Anglezarke closes that gap with warm, curated introductions to the decision-makers who matter.
We provide executive coaching to the leadership of the firms we represent — partners, practice group leaders, and senior executives — building the leadership capacity a growing firm needs, delivered independently of any search or introduction engagement.
Growth surfaces leadership gaps that technical skill alone doesn't close: a newly promoted partner managing a practice group for the first time, a leader navigating succession, a team scaling faster than its management bench. Anglezarke brings dedicated executive coaching to firm leadership, so growth in headcount and revenue is matched by growth in leadership capability.
“Great work builds a reputation. Deliberate growth builds a firm.”
ANGLEZARKE'S CORE BELIEF
A small team of legal and financial-services professionals, working across recruitment, strategic consulting, and relationship management.
Founder & Managing Partner
Michael Whitehead is the Founder and Managing Partner of Anglezarke LLC. He has nearly 30 years of experience in legal executive search, including senior roles with Korn Ferry, Major, Lindsey & Africa, and YER, and as Vice President and a member of the Executive Team at the International Society of Primerus Law Firms. A dual UK/US citizen, Michael has completed partner, practice group, and general counsel searches across the major US, European, and Asian markets.
At Korn Ferry, Michael led senior-level retained searches for corporate clients and advised US and European law firms on partner and practice group recruitment and M&A. As Director of YER's International Legal Desk, he built a practice placing senior counsel with European companies in the US and originated the firm's Nordic legal search business. His work includes law firm acquisitions in Budapest, São Paulo, Dubai, and Cologne/Düsseldorf, and partner and general counsel placements across the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Michael holds a BA in Political Science from Georgia State University. When not chatting to lawyers, he is a published poet and enjoys hiking, yoga, and music.
Partner, Legal & Banking Recruitment
Robert Drury is a Partner with Anglezarke LLC. He has 30 years of experience in executive and legal search working in-house for Fortune 500 corporations including The Hartford Financial Services Group and Citizens Financial Group and for executive and legal search firms.
Robert is the former SVP of Executive Recruitment at Citizens Bank, where he was responsible for sourcing, selection, and hiring of senior leadership talent across all functions, including Legal, Risk, Finance and Technology, as well as for the Commercial and Consumer business lines. While at The Hartford, Robert managed all corporate-wide legal recruiting supporting the EVP General Counsel and IT recruiting supporting the Chief Information Officer.
Robert graduated with honors from the University of Warwick, School of Law in the United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Laws degree.