Advisor to the Advisors.
A specialist boutique, Singapore-licensed, retained by the world’s leading advisory firms and in-house counsel to find investigations, disputes and intelligence talent.
Who we are.
Search & Counsel is the trading style of Feltan Associates Pte Ltd, a Singapore-registered and licensed executive search business (UEN 202225620G).
Our consultants have spent decades personally building professional relationships within the world’s leading investigations, disputes and intelligence practices. We combine many years of operating experience inside the legal and accountancy professions with a track record of recruiting senior partners, directors, experts and teams for corporates, advisory firms and law firms.
The work sits at the specialist end of executive search: retained, confidential, Director-and-above. Most of what we do is never advertised. Most of our candidates are not on the open market.
The trust model.
Our clients' trust in us rests on their confidence in our honesty, our knowledge and our capability. Everything else follows from that.
Retained, exclusive and discreet. We take on a mandate only when we believe we can execute it well. We never run two competing searches in the same market at the same time. We do not disclose a candidate’s interest to their current employer. We do not introduce a candidate to a client without the candidate’s explicit, informed permission.
Because of the professional trust we hold within the investigations, disputes and intelligence communities, our clients benefit from intelligence shared with us by our networks - market context that is not written down, an understanding of team dynamics that cannot be captured in a CV, and visibility over practitioners who are not publicly on the market.
We do not shirk the responsibility to give candid advice, client-side or candidate-side, even when that advice is not what the respondent wants to hear. We would rather decline a mandate than accept one we cannot execute with conviction.
Retained
Exclusive per mandate for the life of the search. The alternative is incompatible with the confidentiality these searches require.
Confidential
No candidate is ever disclosed to their current employer. Clients and candidates each control what is shared with the other.
Candid
Honest assessment of brief, market, talent pool and realism of expectations. Hearing the truth early saves months later.
Networked
Senior practitioners share with us what they would not share with a generalist. That intelligence becomes your advantage on the mandate.
Where we work.
Four focus cities in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, with established activity in London and New York, and cross-border mandates wherever our networks extend.
Also active in
- LondonCross-border mandates, dispute-advisory leadership
- New YorkUS enforcement response, investor-state arbitration
Clients headquartered in
Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, London, New York and globally across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Australia. Mandates routinely cross multiple jurisdictions.
What we do.
Specialisms
Four flagship practices and six adjacent practices. Each covered in depth on the specialisms page.
See specialisms
Methodology
How we run a mandate from brief intake through to onboarding and the first hundred days.
See methodology
Team
The partners and consultants who lead our mandates.
See team
Candidates
Market context, career orientations and the Candidate Zone for practitioners in our specialisms.
See candidate hub
A conversation, in confidence