Legal services
Law firms and their partners, practice heads and senior leaders.
Executive search and strategic advisory
For the international private client sector.
Led by founder Richard Park for more than 25 years.
Audiences
Who we work with
Single-family offices
Families building or running a dedicated office, and the senior people who lead it.
Multi-family offices
Offices serving several families, and the specialists who advise them.
About CPSS
We take retained assignments from firms and family offices, and give discreet advice to senior lawyers and advisers weighing an important career move.
Much of it comes through referrals and repeat instructions.
For firms and family offices
Building a practice, opening in a new jurisdiction or planning for succession.
Our servicesFor lawyers and advisers
The best lawyers and advisers make only two or three significant moves in a career. Talk to us before you make yours.
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How we help
Executive search
Retained searches for partners, heads of practice and senior leadership.
Senior candidate advisory and contingency recruitment
Candid advice on when and where to move, with contingency introductions where the fit is right.
Law firm mergers and acquisitions
Team acquisitions, firm mergers and sales, including launching offices in new jurisdictions.
Succession planning
Long-term plans for how a firm, partner or family hands over, including the next generation of leaders.
Advisory board creation
Advisory boards that put experienced people around a firm, family or business.
Family office creation and team builds
Establishing new family offices and building the teams that run them.
Expertise and reach
Private client work, at home and abroad
We work in domestic, international and offshore markets, including London, the wider UK, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Switzerland, Monaco, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States.
Practice areas
- International trusts and tax
- Trust litigation
- Family and divorce
- Prime private client property
- Landed estates and agricultural law
- Superyachts and private aviation
- Reputation management
- Philanthropy
Track record
Selected experience
Preferred headhunter to one of Switzerland’s largest law firms and preferred supplier to a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund.
Advised one of the largest offshore law firms on entering a new jurisdiction, recruiting several teams of emerging talent.
Advised a successful US entrepreneur on setting up a new family office in Florida.
Advised on one of the UK’s largest law firm mergers, which the acquiring firm pursued to strengthen its private client offering.
“Family office work is now at, or close to, the top of the strategic agenda for many professional services firms.”
Founder and CEO
Richard Park
Richard has worked with former heads of private client at Magic Circle firms, helped a multi-family office build an in-house private client law firm, and advised many of the leading private client practices.
Part of the Charles Park group
The Charles Park group helps professional services firms develop their own family office advisory capabilities, including a white-label solution connected with global partners.
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