We recruit Analysts through Associate Directors for boutique and mid-market M&A advisory firms. Sector-focused (industrials, TMT, healthcare, consumer, services) and generalist coverage. People who can run a process end-to-end, write the IM, and close — not produce decks for someone else to present.
Boutique partner track, mid-market sector teams, or stepping out of a bulge-bracket coverage seat — we work with firms where you actually run processes, not produce decks. Up to Associate Director. No MD-level pitches we can't deliver on, no exploratory chats that go nowhere.
The M&A market is full of people with three years at a big bank and a CV full of "supported the team on…" bullets. We screen past that. Before we send anyone to your firm, they need to show they can actually run a deal.
M&A is a sector business, not a generalist business. We track who's doing what in industrials, TMT, healthcare, consumer and services across the Benelux and DACH — which means when you brief us on a senior associate for your industrials team, we already know the three people you should be talking to.
Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks from intake to signed offer. Faster for analyst/associate, longer for sector-specific senior hires.
Send a one-line brief. We'll come back within 24 hours with three questions — and within a week with a longlist.
Some boutiques look great on a website and grind their juniors into dust. We know which ones are which.
A dedicated owner runs your search from first call to signed offer. No handoffs.
Every M&A firm we work with is one we'd send a friend to. If we wouldn't, we don't represent them.
You hear back after every round, with a real read on how it went.
30 minutes. You walk us through the seat, the team, the comp band, and what "good" looks like. We push back on anything that doesn't add up.
We hit the phones. No CV blasting. No LinkedIn InMail spam. We talk to passive candidates we already know and qualify them against your bar.
4–6 names. Each with a written rationale, comp expectations, and notice period. You decide who to meet.
We run the debrief, the comp negotiation, the notice conversation. We don't disappear after the offer is signed.