City monitor · November 2026
Singapore: lateral market monitor
Lawyers who joined a new firm in Singapore over the last 12 months: how many, at what level, in which practices and with which firms.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 91
- Lateral moves, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 0.0%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 26.4%
- Partner share of moves
- 35
- Firms that hired
What the data show
In the Sartori & Partners lateral record, 91 lawyers joined a new firm in Singapore from November 2025 to October 2026, 0.6% of all lateral moves we tracked. On settled windows the count went from 109 to 109 (0.0%), which we read as flat. It fell behind the market's own change of +9.0%.
Partners account for 26.4% of movers, near the market's 27.7%. On settled windows partner moves alone went from 38 to 31 (-18.4%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat. A step up in title came with 15.4% of moves (market 12.9%).
- Partner26.4%
- Counsel12.1%
- Associate61.5%
Lateral hires in Singapore were spread across 35 firms. Ten firms account for 52.7% of arrivals, against 12.9% across the market: concentrated. First on the hiring table is Linklaters, with arrivals in the 6-10 band.
By practice, Corporate & M&A comes first, involved in 29.7% of arrivals here (20.7% across the market). A change of city came with 85.7% of moves (market 20.5%).
With volume in Singapore holding level, a hire depends on a specific reason to move, which a firm has to put in front of the candidate.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linklaters | 6-10 |
| 2 | Baker Botts | 3-5 |
| 3 | Mayer Brown | 3-5 |
| 4 | Greenberg Traurig | 3-5 |
| 5 | Stephenson Harwood | 3-5 |
| 6 | White & Case | 3-5 |
| 7 | Simmons & Simmons | 3-5 |
| 8 | Clyde & Co | 3-5 |
| 9 | Clifford Chance | 3-5 |
| 10 | Latham & Watkins | 3-5 |
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greenberg Traurig | 6-10 |
| 2 | Baker McKenzie | 3-5 |
| 3 | Hogan Lovells Cadwalader | 3-5 |
| 4 | Bird & Bird | 3-5 |
| 5 | Ashurst Perkins Coie | 3-5 |
| 6 | Mayer Brown | 3-5 |
| 7 | Norton Rose Fulbright | 3-5 |
| 8 | Withers Worldwide | 3-5 |
| 9 | K & L Gates | 3-5 |
| 10 | Charles Russell Speechlys | 3-5 |
Related monitors and reports
Practices in Singapore
- Corporate & M&A27 moves
- Banking & Finance22 moves
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Hiring in this market
Reports
- Singapore Partner Market 2026: More Banking Than Hong Kong or Sydney
Banking and finance features in Singapore lateral moves at an index of 174 against the market, and corporate work at 144. Moves into the city held flat (+0.0%) year on year while the market rose 9.0%.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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