Legal
Talent for a changing legal landscape.
Legal teams are being asked to operate closer to the business and commercial targets than ever. talisman combines deep legal market expertise with long-standing experience across energy and infrastructure, alongside digital infrastructure and finance. That gives our clients access to legal professionals who understand the industries shaping the work, not just the law surrounding it.
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Why Legal teams hire through talisman
Legal expertise with commercial context.
The strongest legal hires understand more than the technical requirement. They know how the business makes decisions and where legal judgment can influence the outcome.
Our network reaches across private practice and in-house teams, with growing depth in Legal Tech. That gives talisman a clear view of how lawyers move through the market and where specialist talent becomes difficult to access.
The wider talisman platform adds another layer. Years spent working across energy and infrastructure mean our consultants understand the transactions, projects and technologies creating demand for legal expertise.
Whether the requirement is a specialist counsel appointment or senior legal leadership, every search starts with the commercial context behind the role.
Where Legal meets the market
Legal work changes as businesses grow and markets evolve.
talisman operates across the areas where legal expertise has the greatest commercial impact, from the technology changing how legal services are delivered to the transactions and regulatory work behind major energy or infrastructure projects.
That connected view allows our teams to understand not only where talent sits, but why different forms of legal expertise matter at each stage.
Legal technology is changing both how legal work is delivered and the skills firms need around it.
AI products and new workflow platforms are creating demand for people who can bridge legal knowledge with technical understanding. talisman works with Legal Tech businesses as they scale, while also supporting organizations adopting new technologies across their legal functions.
Legal Technology
Legal AI
Product Leadership
Product Management
Legal Engineering
Solutions & Implementation
Innovation
Legal Operations
Knowledge Management
Customer Success
Partnerships & Business Development
Go-to-Market Leadership
Executive Leadership
Major energy and infrastructure projects generate legal complexity long before construction begins.
Development agreements and financing structures sit alongside tax considerations and commercial negotiations, requiring lawyers who understand how the project itself works.
talisman recruits across developers and investors, with additional reach into lenders, IPPs, utilities and private practice.
Project Development Counsel
Project Finance Counsel
Structured Finance Counsel
Tax Equity Counsel
Tax Credit Counsel
Commercial Counsel
Senior Counsel
Associate General Counsel
Deputy General Counsel
Partner
A transaction may be defined by the deal, but the strongest lawyers understand the business being bought or sold.
Our work spans law firms and operating businesses, alongside investors active across energy and infrastructure. That market context helps identify lawyers who can handle complex corporate transactions while understanding the commercial drivers behind them.
Corporate Counsel
M&A Counsel
Transactional Counsel
Senior Counsel
Associate General Counsel
Corporate Associate
M&A Associate
Counsel
Partner
Head of M&A Legal
Deputy General Counsel
Trading businesses operate in markets where legal and commercial decisions are closely connected.
Attorneys in this space need to understand the agreements behind physical and financial trading, alongside the regulatory framework surrounding them. talisman’s wider trading and energy relationships give us direct access to legal professionals working across those environments.
Trading Counsel
Commodities Counsel
Energy Trading Counsel
Power & Gas Counsel
Commercial Counsel
Transactions Counsel
Derivatives Counsel
ISDA & Trading Documentation
Regulatory & Trading Compliance
Senior Counsel
Associate General Counsel
Head of Trading Legal
In regulated markets, legal interpretation can influence whether a project or strategy can move forward at all.
Demand spans established regulatory environments and emerging areas where policy is still developing. The strongest professionals combine technical legal knowledge with an understanding of how regulation affects the business in practice.
Regulatory Counsel
Compliance Counsel
Senior Regulatory Counsel
Chief Compliance Officer
Regulatory Affairs
Ethics & Compliance
Risk & Compliance
Associate General Counsel
Head of Regulatory
Head of Compliance
Large projects often depend on legal work completed years before an asset becomes operational.
Land rights and real estate agreements can determine whether development is viable, while permitting and environmental matters influence what happens next. talisman’s infrastructure and energy experience gives our Legal practice direct context around the projects these lawyers support.
Real Estate Counsel
Land Counsel
Development Counsel
Permitting Counsel
Environmental Counsel
Senior Counsel
Associate General Counsel
Real Estate Associate
Counsel
Partner
The General Counsel role changes as the business does.
What an early-stage platform needs from its first senior legal leader can look very different once the company begins raising capital or entering more complex markets. talisman works with boards and executive teams to understand that wider brief before approaching the market.
The search is built around the leader the business needs next, not simply the title it needs to fill.
General Counsel
Chief Legal Officer
Deputy General Counsel
Associate General Counsel
Chief Compliance Officer
Head of Legal
Divisional General Counsel
Corporate Secretary
Legal Operations Leadership
Trusted by industry leaders.
“We engaged talisman to help us recruit a General Counsel at a critical stage in our company’s growth. We needed someone who could bring not only deep legal expertise in the energy sector, but also the commercial judgement and strategic mindset to help us scale the business.
talisman identified and approached an exceptional candidate at one of our direct competitors, someone we would have struggled to access through conventional recruitment channels. They understood exactly what we were looking for and managed the entire process with professionalism, discretion and a real understanding of our business.
The appointment has been a tremendous success. Our General Counsel has made an enormous positive impact, not just from a legal perspective, but commercially, helping shape key decisions and contributing directly to the success of the business.
What impressed me most about talisman was their ability to look beyond the job description and understand the kind of leader we actually needed. They’re a genuine specialist in the energy sector, and I wouldn’t hesitate to work with them again or recommend him to other CEOs
CEO
Utility-Scale Battery Energy Storage Developer
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The best legal talent understands the business behind the law.
Legal hiring becomes more difficult as roles move closer to strategy and commercial decision-making.
A project finance lawyer needs to understand the asset being financed. Trading counsel needs context around the market and the agreements supporting it. Legal Tech leaders increasingly need to move between legal thinking and technology.
talisman’s position across those underlying markets gives clients access to legal talent with the context needed to make an impact.
Legal FAQs
talisman recruits across private practice and in-house legal markets throughout the United States. Our specialist coverage includes Legal Tech, project development and finance, M&A and corporate law, commercial transactions, regulatory and compliance, real estate and permitting, alongside General Counsel and senior legal leadership.
Our legal recruitment work spans specialist attorneys through to General Counsel and other senior legal leaders. Searches cover transactional, regulatory, commercial and project-focused legal roles, with particular depth in markets connected to energy, infrastructure and investment.
Yes. talisman works with law firms as well as businesses building or expanding their in-house legal capability. Our market knowledge allows us to understand how experience transfers between private practice and corporate environments when that background is relevant to the role.
Yes. talisman supports executive search for General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer and other senior legal appointments. These searches consider legal expertise alongside the commercial context of the business and the leadership demands of the position.
Specialist legal searches require an understanding of the work behind a candidate’s title. Our consultants look at practice area, transaction or project experience and the markets a lawyer has worked within before mapping the relevant talent pool. This helps us identify people whose experience genuinely fits the mandate.
Yes. Many of the lawyers and legal leaders in our network are not actively searching when we first speak. A conversation can provide context on compensation, hiring activity and demand for your experience without creating pressure to make a move.