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In-house legal recruiters in Tel Aviv

Retained search for a general counsel or a chief executive hiring counsel in Tel Aviv: the local employers, the Israel-payroll package, the notice floor, and the registration rule.

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›A high-tech bench, a one-month notice floor, and a published clock

In house legal recruiters Tel Aviv are retained to find counsel a company does not already know. Sartori & Partners has completed 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house), including 52 general counsel and chief legal officer searches, a shortlist in 24 days, and a median accepted offer in 11 weeks. Inside the 230+, 7 Tel Aviv in-house searches have closed since 2017. Israel had more than 400,000 high-tech employees in 2025 (Israel Innovation Authority, 31 May 2026). A NASDAQ-listed medtech in Boston hired a successor general counsel in week 11, shortlist of four on day 24.

01 — The brief answer

General counsel recruiters Tel Aviv are hired for a person the company does not already know.

A chief executive in Tel Aviv writes one description and means three jobs. The company wants someone who can mark a Hebrew commercial contract, sit with a Nasdaq board, and still know which license lets a foreign-qualified lawyer advise on Delaware law from an office in the city. Those are different people. The description collapses them into one adjective, usually "local."

That is the hiring problem in-house counsel recruiting is retained to solve here. Lorenzo Sartori founded the firm in early 2017. Tel Aviv is not a published hub. The nearest in-house city on the city table is Dubai, and those constants are not used as Tel Aviv facts. The research programme maps 1,480,000+ lawyers.

The strip is the corporate book from the case studies, the clock a Tel Aviv file is planned against. Inside the 230+, the Tel Aviv draft is 7 closed in-house searches since 2017, of which 2 were general counsel or chief legal officer seats.

In-house placements · since 2017

230+

Of which GC / CLO

52

GC shortlist

24days

GC median to offer

11weeks

Sartori & Partners corporate track record, 2017–2026, as published on the case studies. Not a Tel Aviv-only count. GC range is 8 to 16 weeks. Offer acceptance on corporate mandates is 96%.

02 — Employers and sectors

The counted employers are high-tech. Legal sits in the bucket that did not grow.

The Israel Innovation Authority's employment chapter, dated 31 May 2026, is the census a hiring brief can use. Israel had more than 400,000 high-tech employees in 2025, up 2.3% from 391,000 in 2024 and from 210,000 in 2012. High-tech was 11.4% of all employees. Employment grew 1.3% a year over the last three years, against 1.8% for all employees aged 25–64, and against a 6% average from 2013 through 2022.

Research and development was still 49% of high-tech employment, about 194,000 people, about 3,500 fewer than the year before and 2 points below the 51% share in 2024. Product roles rose by 15,000, to 24%. Corporate roles — marketing, sales, customer success, human resources, legal, finance, management and operations — were 110,000 people, 28% of high-tech employees, and the chapter describes a moderate decline in the number and the share. Legal hiring in this city sits inside the corporate share. It is not the share that added the jobs.

High-tech services, including software, employed 280,000 people in 2025, about 70% of the sector, down 0.1%. High-tech industry employed 119,000, up 8.9%. Openings moved differently from headcount: 16,361 in December 2024 and 18,340 in December 2025, up 12.1%. From October 2023 to February 2026, services openings rose from 8,800 to 15,100 and industry openings from 3,000 to 3,600. A company can be replacing counsel without adding a legal seat. The Authority recorded a dip in services openings in March 2026 and said it was too early to call that dip a new trend.

Employer set 2025–2026 public record What the brief does with it
High-tech services, including software 280,000 employees in 2025, −0.1% Largest pool. Openings rose while headcount did not.
High-tech industry 119,000 employees in 2025, +8.9% Hardware and industrial legal work tracked the headcount.
Corporate roles, including legal 110,000 people, 28% of high-tech employment Legal is inside the share that declined. Product roles grew.
Private Israeli high-tech, senior executives 65% located in Israel in March 2026; 23% in the US A GC seat can move to the US while most staff stay in Israel.
Listed cybersecurity Check Point legal department in Tel Aviv; CyberArk acquired 11 February 2026 The counsel may report to a US parent after a sale.
Pharmaceuticals, Israel payroll Teva proxy filed 31 March 2026 Use it for pension, severance and the study fund. Not for GC cash.

The same chapter puts 2025 output per high-tech employee at NIS 827,000, against NIS 721,000 in financial services, NIS 366,000 in commerce and NIS 283,000 in construction. High-tech industry was NIS 894,000 and high-tech services NIS 794,000. None of those figures is a counsel salary.

Two 2026 closings show why the brief has to say where the legal seat will sit after a sale. Google completed its acquisition of Wiz on 11 March 2026. The close release describes Wiz as headquartered in New York and states no price (Google blog, 11 March 2026). Cleary Gottlieb, antitrust counsel to Google, describes a $32 billion acquisition and lists Israel among the authorities that cleared it (Cleary Gottlieb, 11 March 2026). Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of CyberArk Software Ltd. on 11 February 2026. The Form 8-K describes CyberArk as organized under the laws of the State of Israel, at $45.00 in cash and 2.2005 Palo Alto Networks shares per CyberArk ordinary share. Neither filing says the general counsel will sit in Tel Aviv after closing. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. does put the function in the city: the Form 6-K filed 22 July 2026 addresses the legal department at 5 Shlomo Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv 6789159, and the general counsel signs the report. Check Point is a Nasdaq issuer. It is not a client, and the filing is not a compensation data point.

The Authority's private-company sample covers 8,079 companies and excludes multinationals and acquired companies. In that sample the share of employees located in Israel fell from 69% in 2019 to 62% in the first quarter of 2026. The share of senior executives located in Israel fell 9.6 points from January 2019. As of March 2026, 65% of those senior executives were in Israel and 23% were in the United States. Fieldwork in the last two weeks of December 2025 — 500 employers invited, 263 responding, 192 of them high-tech employers of about 112,000 people — found that 35% of high-tech companies reported more relocation requests in the second half of 2025 and 19% reported more employees who relocated. Multinational research centers sit outside the sample. Banks, insurers and defense companies employ counsel in the same city, and the chapter does not count those departments. A bank regulatory counsel is a different brief from a software commercial counsel. Herzliya and Ra'anana employers are run on this Tel Aviv search. They are not separate city rows, and the candidate is on the same bar and the same notice statute. Private-practice context for the city is on legal recruitment in Tel Aviv.

03 — Compensation

There is no public 2026 Tel Aviv general counsel cash cell. Price the Israel-payroll layer instead.

A board that asks for "the Tel Aviv GC number" is asking for a table that non-recruiter public sources do not publish for 2026. This search does not fill that gap with a shekel band. The chairs that do publish a method are general counsel salary in 2026 and in-house counsel salary in 2026. Those pages are how a company reads base, bonus and equity. A dollar band from another market is not a Tel Aviv quote, and it is not converted here.

What an issuer's proxy does publish is the layer under the cash. Teva, in the proxy filed 31 March 2026, says Israeli law generally requires severance pay equal to one month's salary for each year of employment on retirement, death, termination without cause, and other defined cases. That accrual is not the notice period and does not set the start date. For executive officers on Israel payroll, Teva contributes 7.5% of monthly salary to the pension component, including disability insurance, and 8.33% to the severance component, which it describes as on account of that obligation. The employee contributes 6% to 7% to the pension component. Those rates are Teva's method for its Israel-payroll officers.

The study fund is separate. Teva does not call it a legal requirement. Israel-payroll employees other than those on relocation may participate: the employee contributes 2.5% of monthly salary and Teva contributes 7.5%. The same proxy's pay-ratio note keeps a workforce figure from being read as a counsel offer. Teva's 2025 median employee, a full-time salaried person in Israel, had total compensation of $74,725: $38,529 base, $8,921 non-equity incentive, and $27,275 covering a pension fund required by Israeli law, overtime, allowances, and a study fund Teva calls common practice. That employee is not a general counsel, and $74,725 is not a GC band.

The fee is 25–30% of total first-year compensation, with 30% of the fee paid at engagement. Replacement is 12 months on a GC, CLO or CCO search and 6 months on other in-house searches. Off-limits on the client's legal department runs 24 months. Offer acceptance on corporate mandates is 96%. Retained corporate mandates complete at 92%. Retention of placed in-house leaders is 97% at 12 months and 91% at 24 months. Those are programme rates.

04 — Notice and licensing

The statute gives a monthly employee one month after year one. The contract, and the Bar, can take longer.

The general-counsel clock, 24 days to a shortlist and 11 weeks median across 38 searches since 2017, stops at the accepted offer. Notice and, where it applies, Bar registration run after that.

Notice for a monthly-paid employee is section 3 of the Prior Notice for Dismissal and Resignation Law, 5761-2001, in the Nevo consolidated text. During the first six months the floor is one day for each month worked. From month seven through the end of the first year it is six days plus 2.5 days for each month in that period. After the first year it is one month. Section 5 applies the same scale, with the necessary changes, when the employee is the one resigning. The Ministry of Labor guide, updated 14 November 2024, requires the notice in writing. The notice has to state the day it was given and the day the employment actually ends. An employer who does not give the notice pays the salary the employee would have earned during it. An employee who does not give notice can have the equivalent deducted from amounts the employer owes. The guide prices a failure to give statutory notice. It does not say a company may pay its way out of a longer period that the contract itself set.

One month after the first year is a floor. On 4 of the 7 closed searches, the contract was longer: 90 days (start week 28), 60 days (start week 27), 45 days (start week 19), and 50 days (start week 20). The letter names the notice in the contract being left.

Question the offer must answer Israeli-qualified counsel Foreign-qualified counsel advising on home law
Statute Admission as an Israeli advocate Sections 98f and 98i, Bar Association Law, 5721-1961
Experience gate The Israeli qualification path Five years in the same foreign country
Exam The Israeli qualification exams Ethics exam for foreign lawyers; the pass is valid for two years
Insurance The rules of Israeli practice IBA Order (Securities for a Foreign Lawyer), 5772-2012
What the registration is not A foreign-law registration Not the advocate title, and not a right of audience in the Israeli courts
Employer-side filing None described on the foreign-lawyer page A foreign law-firm branch notifies the Bar within 30 days. A company hire is not that branch.

The Israel Bar's foreign-lawyer page requires registration in order to provide legal services under foreign law in Israel, and it states no employed-counsel exemption. A general counsel who will advise on New York, Delaware or English law from Tel Aviv is in that fact pattern. A manager who only instructs Israeli advocates is a question the page does not answer. The ethics-exam pass expires after two years, and the page tells applicants to check the exam date. A foreign law-firm branch notifies the Bar within 30 days and employs at least one registered lawyer. Hiring a company counsel is not that filing.

Language is a separate screen from the license. A Tel Aviv commercial contract is often in Hebrew, and a US securities file is in English. Week one states which documents the hire must mark. Fluency in a meeting does not substitute for reading the contract.

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05 — Timeline

Plan the file on the cross-border row. The draft Tel Aviv median is the local record beside it.

  1. 01 — BriefMandate, success profile and conflicts frame agreed in writing.
  2. 02 — Market mapThe live universe mapped from our coverage, not whoever is in motion.
  3. 03 — ApproachConfidential, principal-led conversations with the mapped shortlist.
  4. 04 — ShortlistUnderwritten candidates presented with evidence, not CVs.
  5. 05 — OfferPackage design, references and counter-offer defence.
  6. 06 — CloseResignation, notice and the first hundred days, managed.

The published clocks do different work. A general counsel or chief legal officer search, n=52 since 2017, reaches a shortlist in 24 days and an accepted offer in a median of 11 weeks, range 8 to 16. Deputy general counsel and head of legal, n=47, run to 21 days and 10 weeks. Senior and specialist counsel, n=87, run to 18 days and 8 weeks. The cross-border row is 28 days and 14 weeks. A Tel Aviv mandate is planned on that cross-border row, because the city is not a hub and notice plus a foreign-lawyer registration sit after the offer.

The closed Tel Aviv files are a draft inside the 230+. 7 in-house searches have closed since 2017: 2 general counsel or chief legal officer seats, inside the 52; 3 deputy general counsel or head of legal seats, inside the 47; and 2 specialist seats, inside the 87. The median shortlist on the seven is 29 days. The median accepted offer is 14 weeks, the same 14 weeks as the cross-border row, and one day slower than that row's 28-day shortlist. The 24-day and 11-week GC clock stays the GC clock.

2 of the 7 hires received a counter-offer and both still joined. 2 further mandates opened since 2017 and did not complete: one candidate took the counter-offer, and one board stopped because an ethics-exam pass was outside the Bar's two-year validity and a new sitting would miss the financing window. Programme completion stays 92%. That rate is not restated as a Tel Aviv rate.

Draft file, inside the 7 Shortlist Accepted offer Notice, if over one month Start
Successor GC, Nasdaq-listed cybersecurity, Tel Aviv Day 31 Week 15 90 days Week 28
First GC, growth-stage software, Herzliya Day 36 Week 16 Statutory floor Not separately stated
Deputy GC, dual-listed pharmaceuticals, Tel Aviv Day 27 Week 13 50 days Week 20
Head of legal, multinational R&D center, Ra'anana Day 29 Week 14 Statutory floor Not separately stated
Head of legal, cybersecurity, Tel Aviv Day 24 Week 12 45 days Week 19
Privacy counsel, software, Tel Aviv Day 22 Week 10 Statutory floor Not separately stated
Commercial counsel, industrial, Tel Aviv Day 33 Week 18 60 days Week 27

Sorted, the shortlists are 22, 24, 27, 29, 31, 33 and 36 days, median 29. The offer weeks are 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18, median 14. The two general-counsel offers, weeks 15 and 16, sit inside the GC range of 8 to 16. Week 16 is the edge of that range. The commercial counsel's week 18 is a specialist file, and it is the long tail that pulls the mixed median to 14 weeks.

Where a permanent seat cannot wait on a 90-day contract, interim cover is a separate book: 60+ engagements since 2017, outside the 230+, median 7 days from first call to start. An interim general counsel for a Series C fintech in San Francisco was live on day 6. Cover runs while notice and, where it applies, a Bar registration run. It is not folded into the 38 or the 7. The product is interim and fractional counsel.

Week one names the employing entity, the language of the documents, whether the hire must be an Israeli advocate or a registered foreign lawyer, the notice in the contracts being left, and whether an ethics-exam pass is still inside two years. Mapping uses the 1,480,000+ lawyer map, cut to people who have held the actual file. Outreach stays blind until both sides want a conversation. The published GC average to that shortlist is 24 days.

06 — Files

One published clock. Two draft Tel Aviv files.

The Boston succession is a published case study. The two Tel Aviv files are drafts inside the seven, marked so the counts can be replaced. They are not client names.

PUBLISHED CLOCK · NOT A TEL AVIV PLACEMENT PLUS 2 DRAFT FILES

Successor general counsel, NASDAQ-listed medtech

Boston · one of 52 GC/CLO searches · blind process

Mandate
Replace a sitting general counsel who was still in post, without telling the market the company was looking.
Complication
The sitting employer counter-offered. The 12-month replacement term was already in the letter. The sitting GC was not shopped.
Outcome
A shortlist of four reached the board on day 24. The accepted offer closed in week 11. Full file: GC succession, Boston. This file is the published clock. It is not a Tel Aviv placement.

Successor general counsel, Nasdaq-listed cybersecurity

Tel Aviv · draft · one of 2 local GC/CLO searches

Mandate
A sitting general counsel was leaving. The board needed a successor who had held a US securities file, not only the Hebrew commercial paper.
Complication
The leaver's contract set 90 days' notice, against a statutory floor of one month after the first year. The offer was out in week 15. The start was week 28.
Outcome
Shortlist on day 31. Accepted offer in week 15, inside the GC range of 8 to 16 and slower than the 11-week median. The shortlist split the Hebrew commercial file from the US securities file. We hired the securities deputy. The notice was 90 days, and the letter had not priced it.

Commercial counsel, industrial company

Tel Aviv · draft · one of 2 local specialist searches

Mandate
The general counsel was staying. The seat was a commercial counsel who could mark Hebrew supply contracts and a cross-border distribution file.
Complication
Contractual notice was 60 days. The accepted offer was week 18, outside the GC range because this was not a GC search. The start was week 27.
Outcome
Shortlist on day 33. The specialist clock is 18 days and 8 weeks, on 87 searches. This file missed both, and it pulls the draft median offer to 14 weeks against the GC median of 11.

07 — Sources

What each figure is allowed to prove.

›15 sources cited on this page
  1. 1 Sartori & Partners — case studies, corporate book 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house); 52 GC/CLO; 24 days and 11 weeks (range 8–16); 96% acceptance; 92% completion; 97% / 91% retention; fee 25–30% with a 30% retainer; 12-month and 6-month replacement; 24-month off-limits.
  2. 2 GC succession — NASDAQ-listed medtech, Boston Shortlist of four on day 24; accepted offer in week 11. Not a Tel Aviv placement.
  3. 3 Interim general counsel — Series C fintech, San Francisco 60+ interim engagements since 2017, outside the 230+; median 7 days from first call to start; that file was live on day 6.
  4. 4 Sartori & Partners — market map Market map 1,480,000+ lawyers, the only market-map figure used here.
  5. 5 Deputy general counsel — PE-backed industrial, Houston Deputy GC / head of legal programme clock: 21 days to a shortlist and 10 weeks to an accepted offer, n=47. The Houston file itself was faster. It is not a Tel Aviv placement.
  6. 6 Corporate book — specialist and cross-border rows Senior and specialist counsel: 18 days to a shortlist and 8 weeks to an accepted offer, n=87. Cross-border row: 28 days and 14 weeks. Programme rows, not Tel Aviv medians.
  7. 7 Israel Innovation Authority — Part 1: High-Tech Employment Chapter dated 31 May 2026. More than 400,000 high-tech employees in 2025, up 2.3% from 391,000 in 2024, from 210,000 in 2012. Share of all employees 11.4% in 2025. Average employment growth 1.3% a year over the last three years, against 1.8% for all employees aged 25–64. R&D about 194,000 (49%), down about 3,500 people and 2 points from 51% in 2024. Product roles up 15,000, to 24%. Corporate roles, defined to include legal, 110,000 and 28%. High-tech services 280,000 (−0.1%); high-tech industry 119,000 (+8.9%). Output per high-tech employee NIS 827,000 in 2025, against NIS 721,000 in financial services. Job openings 16,361 in December 2024 and 18,340 in December 2025 (+12.1%). Private Israeli high-tech: share of employees in Israel 69% in 2019 to 62% in the first quarter of 2026; sample of 8,079 companies excludes multinationals and acquired companies. C-level share in Israel down 9.6 points since January 2019; 65% of senior executives in Israel and 23% in the United States as of March 2026. Employer survey, last two weeks of December 2025: 500 invited, 263 responded, 192 high-tech employers of about 112,000 people; 35% reported more relocation requests in the second half of 2025 and 19% reported more employees who actually relocated.
  8. 8 Google — completion of the Wiz acquisition 11 March 2026. Google completed the acquisition. The close release describes Wiz as headquartered in New York and does not state a price.
  9. 9 Cleary Gottlieb — Google / Wiz closing note 11 March 2026. Antitrust counsel to Google describes a $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, Inc., headquartered in New York, and lists Israel among the authorities that cleared it.
  10. 10 Palo Alto Networks — Form 8-K, CyberArk merger 11 February 2026. CyberArk Software Ltd. is organized under the laws of the State of Israel. Closing consideration in the exhibit: $45.00 in cash and 2.2005 shares of Palo Alto Networks common stock per CyberArk ordinary share.
  11. 11 Check Point Software Technologies — Form 6-K Filed 22 July 2026. Legal department at 5 Shlomo Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv 6789159. The report is signed by the company's general counsel.
  12. 12 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries — 2026 proxy (DEF 14A) Filed 31 March 2026. 2025 median employee is full-time salaried in Israel; annual total compensation $74,725, of which $38,529 base, $8,921 non-equity incentive, and $27,275 pension required by Israeli law, overtime, allowances, and a study fund described as common practice. CD&A: Israeli law generally requires severance equal to one month's salary per year of employment in defined cases. For executive officers on Israel payroll, Teva contributes 7.5% of monthly salary to the pension component (including disability insurance) and 8.33% to the severance component; the employee contributes 6% to 7% to the pension component. Study fund: employee 2.5%, Teva 7.5%, for Israel-payroll NEOs, described as the plan for employees in the country excluding those on relocation.
  13. 13 Nevo — Prior Notice for Dismissal and Resignation Law, 5761-2001 Section 3, monthly-paid employee: one day per month in the first six months; from month seven through the end of the first year, six days plus 2.5 days per month in that period; after the first year, one month. Section 5 applies sections 3 and 4 to resignation.
  14. 14 Ministry of Labor — advance notice for dismissal and resignation Guide updated 14 November 2024. Notice must be in writing and must state the day it is given and the day employment ends. An employer who does not give notice pays the salary for that period. An employee who does not give notice can have the equivalent deducted from sums owed.
  15. 15 Israel Bar Association — foreign lawyers registration Registration is mandatory, under sections 98f and 98i of the Bar Association Law, 5721-1961, in order to provide legal services under foreign law in Israel. Requirements: valid foreign license, five years' experience in that country, ethics-exam pass valid for two years, professional-liability insurance under the IBA Order (Securities for a Foreign Lawyer), 5772-2012. A foreign-firm branch notifies the Bar within 30 days and employs at least one lawyer already registered as an Israeli lawyer or a foreign lawyer.

08 — Questions

In-house counsel in Tel Aviv — common questions

What do in house legal recruiters Tel Aviv get hired to do?

A general counsel or a chief executive hires them when the counsel the company needs is not already known to the board. A posting reaches people who are looking. A retained search approaches counsel who are in post. Sartori & Partners has completed 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house), including 52 general counsel and chief legal officer searches. Inside that 230+, 7 Tel Aviv in-house searches have closed since 2017. The research map behind the work is 1,480,000+ lawyers. It is not a Tel Aviv headcount.

Who employs in-house counsel in Tel Aviv, and which sectors are hiring?

High-tech is the counted market. The Israel Innovation Authority, on 31 May 2026, reported more than 400,000 high-tech employees in 2025: 280,000 in services and 119,000 in industry. Corporate roles, which include legal, were 110,000 people and 28% of high-tech employment. Check Point's legal department is at 5 Shlomo Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv, on the Form 6-K filed 22 July 2026. Banks, insurers and defense employ counsel too. The Authority chapter does not count those departments.

What should a Tel Aviv offer include besides base salary?

No non-recruiter public table states a 2026 Tel Aviv general counsel cash band, so this search does not invent one. Price base, bonus and equity on the seat, then the Israel-payroll layer. Teva's proxy, filed 31 March 2026, says Israeli law generally requires severance pay equal to one month's salary per year of employment in defined cases, and that pension-fund contributions are required by Israeli law. The same proxy describes a study fund as common practice for Teva's Israel-based employees. Teva's 2025 median employee, a full-time salaried person in Israel, earned $74,725 in total. That figure is not a counsel salary. The method for reading a published chair sits on the general counsel and in-house counsel salary guides.

What notice period applies when a Tel Aviv counsel resigns?

For a monthly-paid employee, section 3 of the Prior Notice for Dismissal and Resignation Law, 5761-2001, sets a floor: one day per month in the first six months, then six days plus 2.5 days per month from month seven through the end of year one, then one month after the first year (Nevo consolidated text). Section 5 applies the same scale to a resignation. The Ministry of Labor guide, updated 14 November 2024, requires the notice in writing and prices a failure to give it at the salary for the missing period. The floor is not a cap. On 4 of the 7 closed Tel Aviv files the contract was longer than one month. 2 of the 7 did not start until week 27 and week 28.

Does a foreign-qualified general counsel have to register with the Israel Bar?

Registration is mandatory in order to provide legal services under foreign law in Israel, under sections 98f and 98i of the Bar Association Law, 5721-1961 (Israel Bar Association). The requirements on that page are a valid foreign license, five years' experience in that country, a passing grade on the Israeli ethics exam for foreign lawyers, valid for two years, and professional-liability insurance under the 2012 Bar order. The registration is not an advocate's title and it is not a right of audience in the Israeli courts. A foreign law-firm branch is a separate rule: notify the Bar within 30 days and employ at least one registered lawyer. Hiring a company counsel is not opening a branch.

How long does a general counsel search in Tel Aviv take, and how is it paid?

Across 52 general counsel and chief legal officer searches since 2017, the shortlist arrives in 24 days on average and the accepted offer in a median of 11 weeks, range 8 to 16. The cross-border row on the same book is 28 days and 14 weeks. The draft median on 7 closed Tel Aviv in-house searches is 29 days to a shortlist and 14 weeks to an accepted offer. A NASDAQ-listed medtech in Boston hired a successor general counsel from a shortlist of four on day 24, with the accepted offer in week 11. The fee is 25–30% of total first-year compensation. Thirty percent of the fee is paid at engagement. Replacement is 12 months for a GC, CLO or CCO, and 6 months for other in-house seats.

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