Astral Legal
Niels Vaartjes serves as a Managing Consultant for the US Legal Market specializing in M&A and Investment Funds at Astral Legal, a boutique legal search firm. With experience including roles as Associate Director International at The Candidate Recruitment Agency and various positions at Brightcloud Partners, Niels has developed expertise in international recruitment across EMEA, North America, and APAC. Prior experience spans positions in production improvement, retail consulting, quality management, and sales and marketing, supporting a diverse skill set in business and talent management. Niels holds a Master's degree in International Business and Change Management from TIAS School for Business and Society, alongside a Bachelor's degree in International Business and Management from Rotterdam Business School.
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Astral Legal
Astral is a highly reputable international legal search firm operating across the UK, USA, Europe, and Asia. We strive to be the best in class, most valued and informed legal search firm and we pride ourselves on managing the careers for some of the most sought-after Associates, Counsels and Partners in the world - 70% of which are on an exclusive basis. We are experts at identifying and attracting high-calibre lawyers to fill highly specialist and business critical appointments across: • Corporate (M&A, PE & Capital Markets) • Finance & Restructuring • Data Privacy & Cyber Security • Intellectual Property • TMT / Commercial Technology We can partner with you on broader practice areas such as: • Tax • Employment • Funds • Competition • Real Estate • Litigation We provide Fee Earner Associate through to Partnership search services and solutions, partnering with elite US & UK law firms as well as niche specialist firms across the world. Our international in-house business partners with a broad portfolio of clients from start-ups to FTSE 100 & 250 businesses. We support lateral moves, succession planning, team moves, international relocations, new office launches and office acquisitions for a niche portfolio of clients. Why Astral? There are many generalist recruiters and agencies out there, we are not one. The team at Astral is split into dedicated client and research functions. This ensures our consultants understand our clients better than the competition and that our research team have developed relationships and thoroughly mapped out every targeted practice area across all relevant law firms globally. We have a high success rate working with referrals both from a client and candidate perspective, and our clients instruct us repeatedly on retained and exclusive mandates because of our successful track record. As part of the Oliver James Group, we benefit from long-standing partnerships and can advise and support clients on DE&I.