Banking & Finance in Charlotte: lateral monitor

Sartori & Partners data show 62 lateral moves in Banking & Finance in Charlotte from November 2025 to October 2026, 3.2% of the practice's moves. Measured on settled 12-month windows, 70 moves against 47 the year before, the count rose 48.9%. It outpaced the market's own change of +9.0%.

Over the three years to October 2026, 140 lawyers moved in Banking & Finance in Charlotte, 27 of them partners (19.3%). They joined 35 different firms. 12.9% stepped up a level on the move and 27.8% changed city, against 12.3% and 21.6% across the market over the same three years. 56.7% came from firms with 1,000+ lawyers.

Associates carry this flow: partners are 11.3% of arrivals, against 27.7% market-wide. A step up in title came with 14.5% of moves (market 12.9%).

23 firms hired at least one lateral in Banking & Finance in Charlotte in the window. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 74.2% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. Moore & Van Allen ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 6-10 band.

The practice accounts for 45.9% of all lateral moves in Charlotte. Over the three years to October 2026, 59.3% of movers came from another firm in Charlotte itself. 28.3% of movers also changed city, against 20.5% market-wide.

There were 32 open roles in Banking & Finance in Charlotte on law-firm career pages on November 11, 2026.

For a firm building a team in Banking & Finance in Charlotte, associate supply is active; the partner hire is the scarcer piece and the one to start first.

Sartori & Partners data count 45 over the three years to October 2026.

Banking & lending work is involved in 57.8% of them.

Dechert ranks first among advising firms over the period, in the 11-20 band.

Over the three years to October 2026, Corporate Lending was involved in 27.9% of moves in Banking & Finance in Charlotte, then Structured Finance & Securitization with 25.7%.