Who is Sartori & Partners?

Sartori & Partners is an international legal executive search firm. Lorenzo Sartori founded it in Italy in early 2017. The work is limited to legal mandates: law-firm partners and associates, and in-house lawyers, compliance leaders, and legal-operations leaders for companies. The firm does not recruit outside the legal profession.

The public positioning, used on the site and in the website terms, is "international legal executive search." The privacy notice describes the firm as a United States-based entity and as the data controller for personal information collected through sartoriglobal.com. The terms state that the firm is established in the United States, that those terms are governed by the law of the State of Wyoming, and that disputes about the site and the services are brought in the state or federal courts located in Wyoming. The terms do not publish a registered office, a company number, or a street address.

Wikidata item Q140170419, last revised on June 29, 2026, labels the organization "Sartori & Partners" in English. It types the item as a recruitment agency, sets the industry as executive search, records inception in 2017 at year precision, and sets the official website as https://sartoriglobal.com. The English short name on that item is "Sartori." Aliases on the item include "Sartori Global." The LinkedIn organization identifier stored on the item is sartori-global.

The organization record uses the legal name Sartori & Partners, founding date 2017, and three sameAs links (LinkedIn, Wikidata, and Crunchbase). The hub chronology, the published datasets, and the contact routes are set out below.

The sequence is Milan in 2017, Brussels in 2019, Dubai in 2021, Riyadh in 2022, New York in 2023, California and Texas in 2024, and London in 2025. That is eight hubs. California is one hub for Los Angeles and San Francisco. Texas is one hub for Houston and Dallas. The founding place, at country level, is Italy.

Corporate mandates since 2017 have been run in 23 countries and 41 cities. That is a count of where company searches have been executed. It is smaller than the market list on locations, which is the set of city markets the firm maps, not a list of offices. The locations pages do not add a street, a floor, or a telephone.

The team works in eight languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, and Vietnamese. Language coverage is not the same thing as a hub. A search can be staffed across hubs when the mandate is cross-border. One published cross-border clock, for mandates that need more than one market, is 28 days to a shortlist and 14 weeks to an accepted offer. A private-equity-backed general counsel clock, published separately from the all-GC median, is 26 days to a shortlist and 12 weeks to an accepted offer.

Company types in the corporate book are venture-backed companies from Series B onward, private-equity portfolio companies, groups listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, Euronext, Borsa Italiana, or Tadawul, family-owned groups, and financial institutions. The firm does not publish client names.

Lorenzo Sartori founded Sartori & Partners in early 2017. He is the founder on the site-wide organization record, and he is the only named author of the articles, guides, and dataset notes on sartoriglobal.com. The about page carries the longer account of how the practice moved from Italy to Brussels, the Gulf, and the United States.

Wikidata item Q140380773, revised on the same day as the organization item, June 29, 2026, labels him Lorenzo Sartori. The English description on that item calls him an Italian legal recruiter and managing partner of Sartori & Partners. The item links his employer to Q140170419. The LinkedIn identifier on the item is lorenzosart, the profile at linkedin.com/in/lorenzosart. The firm site uses the title Founder. Both strings are public; they are not two people.

Public pages do not publish biographies, photographs, or direct telephone numbers for anyone else. The firm does not publish a headcount. A reader who needs a person, rather than the organization, has one name to use: Lorenzo Sartori, via [email protected].

The average time to a shortlist across in-house search is 21 days. General counsel and chief legal officer searches, n = 38, take 24 days to a shortlist and a median of 11 weeks to an accepted offer, with the observed range at 8 to 16 weeks. Deputy general counsel and head of legal, n = 47, take 21 days and 10 weeks. Senior and specialist counsel, n = 96, take 18 days and 8 weeks. Compliance and regulatory leadership, n = 41, take 21 days and 10 weeks on the chief compliance officer clock. Legal operations, n = 12, take 20 days and 9 weeks. Privacy and AI-governance counsel, published as its own clock, take 19 days and 9 weeks.

Offer acceptance on corporate mandates is 96 percent. Retained corporate mandates are completed at 92 percent, which means a minority of retained company searches do not end in a hire. Retention of placed in-house leaders is 97 percent at 12 months and 91 percent at 24 months. Repeat clients or referrals account for 68 percent of corporate mandates.

One general counsel succession is on the public case file. The client was a NASDAQ-listed medtech in Boston. The process was blind, and the 12-month replacement term was in the engagement letter. The shortlist was four names, delivered on day 24. The accepted offer was in week 11. The 12-month retention checkpoint held. It is one of the 38 general counsel and chief legal officer searches. The general counsel's account, published with the file, was: "The shortlist arrived in just over three weeks and every name could already sit with our board. The person we hired is still in post two years later." The file is the Boston succession note.

Interim work uses a different clock and a different denominator. The firm has delivered 60+ interim and fractional engagements since 2017, not included in the 230+. The median from first call to start is 7 days. One of those engagements was an interim general counsel for a Series C fintech in San Francisco, covering parental leave and a financing, billed as a day rate, and live on the work on day 6. That start is faster than the 7-day median. It is one file, not the median.

• Organization, Wikidata: Q140170419. Last revision of the item: June 29, 2026. Inception: 2017. Official website: https://sartoriglobal.com. Instance of recruitment agency. Industry: executive search.
• Founder, Wikidata: Lorenzo Sartori, Q140380773. Employer stated on the item: Q140170419. LinkedIn path: lorenzosart.
• LinkedIn organization: linkedin.com/company/sartori-global. That company id is the LinkedIn identifier on Q140170419.
• Crunchbase: crunchbase.com/organization/sartori-partners, the third URL in the site's organization sameAs array, with LinkedIn and Wikidata.
• Website: https://sartoriglobal.com. Firm narrative: /about/. Entity record: /about/who-is-sartori-and-partners/.

The Organization node uses @id https://sartoriglobal.com/#organization. On this URL it also carries founding location Italy, the eight working languages, three contact points (sales, recruiting, and privacy), and identifier values for Wikidata Q140170419, LinkedIn sartori-global, and Crunchbase sartori-partners. sameAs is the LinkedIn, Wikidata, and Crunchbase URLs. The founder is the Person node https://sartoriglobal.com/#person-lorenzo-sartori. The AboutPage node sets that organization as mainEntity.

Area served on the organization node is the country list drawn from the locations data. It is wider than the eight hubs. Operating in a country's legal market, and running a hub in a city, are different statements. Hubs are in the table above. Markets are on locations.