Palestrina Partners is a boutique executive search consultancy supporting clients across the financial markets. Our clients desire an in depth understanding of their individual markets, accurate market intelligence and the ability to source and close market leading talent.
Our excellent research capabilities coupled with deep relationships across the markets allow us to form a dynamic partnership with our clients and consistently deliver on their requirements.
Most importantly our clients are assured integrity and confidentiality.
Our coverage extends across government bonds, swaps, inflation, vanilla and exotic options. We have a proven track record in placing senior individuals across trading, structuring and research for all of these products. In addition we gather and maintain detailed market intelligence in order to assist our clients in strategic decision making.
Our team have a substantial track record in placing individuals across the full spectrum of front office credit. Centred on trading, structuring, research and securitisation we maintain continuous coverage across flow and structured credit, CVA/XVA and loan portfolio, securitised products, principal finance, asset finance and real estate.
Our FX practice covers sales, trading and structuring for all FX products including cash, futures, vanilla and exotic FX options and hybrids. This holistic approach to FX allows our consultants to provide detailed insight across the business and input unrivalled market intelligence into strategic decisions.
Our EM practice is primarily fixed income driven with a focus on local markets, external debt, local currency credit and illiquid/esoteric products. Our team have executed senior level mandates across trading, structuring, research and economics as well as providing detailed competitor analysis in all these segments.
We are engaged with firms across the financial markets including Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Investment Managers and Private Equity firms located across Asia, Europe and The Americas.
laurence.boyle@palestrinapartners.com
Laurence is a founding partner of Palestrina Partners. After Laurence left Oxford University, he worked as an options trader for a number of global investment banks. Laurence has been in executive search since 1997, and focuses on FX, Interest Rates and Emerging Markets. His clients include a select number of global investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Having sold his previous headhunting business in 2013, Laurence established Palestrina Partners with David.
david.hall@palestrinapartners.com
David is a founding partner and leads our Credit business. Over the course of 15 years in executive search David has specialised in Fixed Income trading, having executed strategic mandates across Trading, Structuring and Research in both the Credit and Rates asset classes. His clients include leading investments banks, hedge funds and brokers. Prior to founding Palestrina Partners, David worked at two leading search consultancies where he built and ran teams across the Fixed Income trading space. David read Business Studies at Cass Business School.