Market Entry Consultancy
Ashford Benjamin has successfully advised a number of international and PRC law firms on entering the Hong Kong and Singapore legal market. Our decades of experience in Hong Kong and Singapore, our knowledge of the legal practice landscape, and our comprehensive
We manage the project from planning stages, through to opening in association with Hong Kong or Singapore firm, to achieving growth and hiring targets over subsequent years.
These services include:
- Free initial consultation, to discuss the clients’ current situation, and plans for expansion
- Full viability report, including all costing for setting up the office, risk/reward analysis and in-depth advice on potential practice areas, pitfalls, and competition
- Finding local law firms with whom to go into
association , and managing those negotiations - Building the initial partnership team, and growing the subsequent partnership and teams of associates
- Working together long term to ensure the continued growth and success of the Hong Kong and Singapore offices
If your law firm is considering setting up an office in Hong Kong or Singapore, please contact our Managing Partner, Ben Cooper, on ben.cooper@ashford-benjamin.com or call +852 2315 9500.
Ben Cooper
Managing Partner
Ben is a Barrister of England & Wales (Middle Temple) and previously practised employment law in London, before moving into executive search. He has over a decade of experience completing search mandates for lawyers and compliance professionals on a global basis.
He has been awarded Best Recruitment Consultant in Asia-Pacific by Global Recruiter and awarded Best Legal & Compliance Headhunter in Asia-Pacific by AsiaMoney.
He moved to Hong Kong in January, 2010, and has been highly successful in the legal recruitment market since then, placing lawyers and compliance professionals from mid to senior level. He founded Ashford Benjamin Ltd, with the firm belief that the legal market in Hong Kong deserved a better, new kind of search firm.
Ben is a regular contributor to legal journals and is actively involved with furthering the legal profession in Hong Kong; being regularly invited to sit on industry discussion panels and regularly attending Hong Kong Law Society functions.
Aside from legal recruitment, Ben sits on the fund-raising committee of Liberty Asia – an anti-slavery charity, and has advised students on legal careers at Hong Kong University’s Law School.
Ben can be reached at ben.cooper@ashford-benjamin.com or on +852 3511 6222.
Ashford Benjamin Ltd
Room 501, 5/F Printing House,
6 Duddell Street,
Central, Hong Kong
Email: info@ashford-benjamin.com
Office: +852 2315 9500
Ashford Benjamin
Ashford Benjamin Pte Ltd
16 Raffles Quay,
#09-01
Hong Leong Building,
Singapore 048581
Email: info@ashford-benjamin.com
Office: +65 6277 8530
Ashford Benjamin
DOMINIC THURMOTT
DIRECTOR (SINGAPORE)
Dominic has over a decade of executive search experience in Asia, where he specialises across the placement of mid-senior Risk Management, Internal Audit and Compliance professionals for leading banks and financial institutions.
From the UK originally, Dominic moved to Hong Kong in 2012 where he joined a global recruitment firm, before relocating to Singapore in 2017 where he has gone on to build an established network of both clients and governance professionals. Hired in 2023 to launch the Ashford Benjamin Singapore office, Dominic will continue the development of the brand as the leading Corporate Governance search firm in Asia.
Dominic can be reached at dthurmott@ashford-benjamin.com or on +65 6277 8530 (Singapore).
