Building Exceptional Teams Across Alternative Investments
For more than 20 years, we've hired the talent that drives returns across private equity, private credit, public credit, and hedge funds. Partner-led. Data-driven. Built for your market.
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Years in Alternative Investments
Search Execution Rate
Market Verticals
Partner-Led Engagements
Tell Us What You're Facing
Select the scenario closest to your situation and we'll point you to the right next step.
We need to hire a senior investment professional for a specific strategy
Our current process isn't surfacing the right caliber of candidates
We're building a new team for a fund launch or market entry
We need compensation benchmarking or talent pool intelligence
We're replacing a departing senior leader and need a confidential search
Something else, I'd like to discuss our hiring needs
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Deep Expertise Across Alternative Investments
We don't dabble in financial services. For more than 20 years, we've focused exclusively on the markets where your teams compete - and we speak the language of each one.
Three Ways We Serve Your Firm
Retained Search
Partner-led executive search for senior, strategic, and niche hires. We map the market, systematically pursue and screen talent, and present a curated short list of candidates who fit your need.
97% execution rate across all mandates.
Intelligence Studies
Bespoke market research covering compensation benchmarking, talent pool mapping, diversity metrics, and competitive intelligence. We deliver the data that helps you plan your next hire or next product launch.
600+ candidates mapped in a single asset-based credit study.
Team Builds
When you're launching a new strategy, entering a new market, or scaling a team, individual searches aren't enough. We coordinate multi-hire engagements that build cohesive, high-performing teams from day one.
Team lifts, strategy launches, market entrants, and team expansions.
How We Rescued a Contingent Search in Under 2 Months
Metropolitan Partners Group, a private credit firm, had spent months interviewing over 40 candidates without a hire. We stepped in with a retained engagement and delivered a shortlist of 7 - all rigorously screened for the firm's specific investment strategy and team culture. Offer accepted, candidate seated, in under 2 months.
Candidates Shortlisted
Kickoff to Accepted Offer
The People Behind Your Search
Every engagement is led by the same senior partners from start to finish. No handoffs, no surprises.
Niall joined TLG in 2020 and has more than six years of investment industry search experience. He executes searches for alternative investment clients, with a focus on private markets investment mandates. Prior to TLG, he was a Research Analyst at The Denali Group. Niall received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Siena College. Based in NYC, he enjoys traveling, golfing, and following Siena basketball.
From Briefing to Accepted Offer
A systematic, transparent search process built for senior alternative investment hires. Every step is partner-led.
Diagnostic & Kickoff
Before any engagement begins, we meet to understand your firm's needs, hiring history, and determine the best solution. Once aligned, we present a formal proposal — strategy, target firms, benchmark profiles, and commercial terms — and conduct a thorough briefing to define what success looks like and who will thrive in the seat.
Research & Candidate Assessment
We conduct comprehensive primary research across the talent pool — identifying target companies, mapping their organizational structures, and building a longlist of candidates systematically. We then make direct, confidential outreach and assess candidates in face-to-face interviews using a structured framework.
Shortlist & Steering
We present a curated shortlist of candidates who will thrive in the role, with detailed assessments and recommendations. Throughout the search, we hold regularly scheduled steering meetings to share market feedback and refine direction in real time.
Offer & Close
We manage the offer end-to-end — structuring compensation based on market data, anticipating and navigating counter-offers, and maintaining close engagement through acceptance, start date, and beyond. The search isn't complete until the candidate is successfully in the seat.
Founder-Led. Completely Independent. Built for Alternative Investments.
In an industry where peers have been acquired by global conglomerates and boutiques have sold to private equity, we remain completely independent. No competing priorities. Fewer off-limits restrictions. No junior handoffs. Just 20+ years of focused expertise in the markets you operate in.
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Partner-Led Execution
The partners who pitch your search are the same partners who execute it. Every conversation, every candidate screen, every steering meeting.
Data, Not Just Resumes
Every engagement produces market intelligence - compensation data, talent pool analysis, and competitive insights you can use long after the search closes.
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Market-Specific Fluency
We know the difference between a direct lending originator and an ABF underwriter. That specificity matters when you're evaluating candidates for a niche mandate.
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Candidate Relationships
We build genuine trust with candidates over years - not transactions. That's why we close offers, protect against counter-offers, and consistently hire top talent.
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Let's Discuss Your Search
Whether you're building a deal team, replacing a departing leader, or exploring what the market looks like - we're here for a confidential conversation.