Hire Talent
As India’s leading and largest legal recruitment firm, we work with clients across various stages of growth, helping them fill talent gaps, develop future-focussed leadership, and create a more inclusive and agile workplace.
With over a decade of experience, Vahura is seen as the go-to partner for legal recruitment for large organisations, funds, and law firms. We specialise in recruitment for legal, policy, compliance, and tax.
Our
Impact
- 70% of hires by investment funds for senior legal professionals.
- 30% of hires by law firms for mid-level to senior legal professionals.
- 20% of hires by corporate legal departments for mid-level to senior legal professionals.
We focus on recommending a lineup of leaders to reckon with. We recruit at the senior and mid-level for positions such as:
- General Counsel
- Head of Legal
- Legal Counsel
- Partner
- Principal Associate
- Senior Associate
We also recruit for the following positions for in-house teams:
- Head of Policy
- Head of Government Relations
- Head of Compliance
- Head of Corporate Secretarial
- Head of Tax
- Head of Regulatory Compliance
- Head of Ethics and Integrity
- Head of Intellectual Property
- Head of Litigation
- M&A Counsel
- Labour and Employment Counsel
- Legal Operations Head
- Pioneers in legal recruitment in India
- Legal Sector Specialist.
- Extensive network across the Indian legal, policy and tax industries.
- Wide network across the governance-risk-compliance (GRC) industries.
- A consultative approach with long-term orientation.
- Guiding the sector to Legal 3.0 through tech + data + operations.
At Vahura, we believe in long term relationships, not transactions. More than 30% of our mandates are from existing clients. We are trusted for our insight and experience, and often called on for advice on role expansion and remuneration structures. Today, we are also sought out by law firms for strategic legal talent at the partner level, heads of critical practice groups, as well as private-practice mergers and acquisitions.
Karl Fernandes
Karl is a Senior Partner at Vahura and heads Executive Search and Legal Recruitment for corporate legal departments of enterprises and high-growth companies.
Lee Ignatius
Lee is the Co-Founder and a Partner at Vahura. He heads the Private Practice and Funds Search Practice Group at Vahura.
Shweta Sheth
Shweta Vora Sheth is a Partner at Vahura, specialising in Executive Search, Compliance Recruitment, and Legal Recruitment. She leads the Compliance Recruitment Practice at Vahura. She is actively engaged in senior leadership searches, helping enterprises and high-growth companies hire senior legal and compliance leaders for their In-house departments.
Vani Jain
A Vice President with the In-house Practice Group, Vani focuses on recruiting for senior legal, compliance, corporate governance and public policy roles for enterprises and high-growth organizations.
How can we help?
Whether it's hiring for critical leadership roles, strengthening an existing team or building a new team, law firms and corporate legal departments routinely rely on Vahura as their strategic recruitment partner.
Connect with us to understand how we can help you make the hires that shape your organisation.