Specialist legal recruitment consultancy Legalis is delighted to announce the re-appointment of legal recruiter Laura Kaya. Laura will be focused on the Turkish market where Legalis has maintained an outstanding track record of placing lawyers with top Istanbul law firms for over a decade.

Laura’s professional recruitment experience includes working with Google, NCR and agencies in the US. Her career has continued through multiple transitions as a military spouse; including moves to Germany and Turkey while prioritizing the needs of her young family. To this, Laura added, “From a diversity standpoint I have always admired that Legalis is run by women and is majority-owned by women. Furthermore, I am so fortunate to be based in Turkey working in the Turkish market where many women not only make equity partners but are also internationally recognized leaders of practice groups and managing partners.”

Laura rejoins her old team at Hudson Legal, which in CEE became Legalis in 2012. Commenting on her move Laura said, “I credit that first experience in Budapest for paving the way for me to join Google headquarters in 2007 as a rare permanent recruiter hire. I am pleased to be working again with Ellen Hayes, Anna Lukacs, and Gabor Szekely who were top-end legal recruiters then, and now.”

Ellen Hayes commented, “We have always held Laura in the highest regard and are delighted to welcome her back to our team.”

We are pleased to announce that  Norrie Sinclair will be joining Legalis as a Senior  Recruitment Advisor. He has been actively collaborating on projects since January this year and now joins Legalis full-time.

Norrie is focused on senior-level recruitment (partner and teams) for law firms particularly in transactional practices across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

Norrie’s recruitment career started in London as a Senior Consultant recruiting finance roles for a global recruitment agency. In 1996 took on the challenge of building operations in Central and Eastern Europe for a UK agency, becoming Regional Director for CEE & Turkey where he was responsible for 60 consultants operating from business units in across the region including Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Turkey. Later he was the CEO of an early-stage internet company CV Online (career portal) where he built CVO Recruitment alongside it, both becoming leaders in their field across CEE. CVOnline was successfully sold and he joined KPMG as a Senior Manager (Corporate Finance / M&A) focused on originating and managing M&A transactions in Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey, particularly within the financial services, FMCG and construction sectors.  He maintained a position with CVO Recruitment (search/selection) and moved to Poland later founding his own firms (Futures Inc. and Sinclair Kennedy & Co) focused on finance, legal, HR, IT/Fintec, and real estate roles in Poland and Hungary.

Norrie graduated with a BA degree in Finance from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland.

For any inquiries or to get in touch with Norrie Sinclair, please feel free to reach out to him directly on Tel: +36 30 999 3985 or email [email protected]