Macrae Elevates 5 Managing Directors to Partner
2024年5月16日 - 6:00PM
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Elite Transatlantic Legal Search Firm Promotes
Recruiters Justine Donahue, Adil Lalani, Rachel Nonaka, Sarah
Morris, and Eleonora Wäktare
Macrae, a premier transatlantic legal search firm that places
partners and groups at the world’s leading law firms, announced
today that five managing directors have been promoted to the firm’s
partnership. The new partners are Sarah Morris in the San Francisco
Bay Area, Justine Donahue and Rachel Nonaka in Washington, D.C.,
and Adil Lalani and Eleonora Wäktare in London. Macrae’s team of 20
recruiters firmwide now includes 11 partners.
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Macrae's new Partners are (from L to R):
Eleonora Wäktare (London), Justine Donahue (Washington, D.C.),
Rachel Nonaka (Washington, D.C.), Adil Lalani (London), and Sarah
Morris (San Francisco Bay Area). (Photo: Business Wire)
“I couldn’t be happier to welcome Sarah, Justine, Rachel, Adil
and Eleonora to the partnership. Macrae’s clients, candidates and
team members firmwide have benefited tremendously from the skill
and passion each of them brings to their work,” said Joe Macrae,
Founder and Chairman. “The recruiting profession is often
stereotyped as a fiercely competitive individual sport, even among
colleagues – and there’s truth in that. We set out to build a
different kind of firm, one powered not by sharp elbows but by
transparency, the sharing of intelligence across markets, and the
recognition that every ‘win’ requires a group effort. The fact that
a record five recruiters have achieved partnership status this
year, including two who began their recruiting careers here, is a
testament to our distinct business and cultural model.”
The new partners:
Justine Donahue (Washington, D.C.): Donahue represents partners,
partner groups and senior government attorneys across practice
areas, with a special interest in antitrust. Prior to becoming a
recruiter in 2014, her career as an antitrust lawyer encompassed a
decade in private practice and several years at the Department of
Justice, Antitrust Division. Donahue, who holds a JD from American
University, Washington College of Law, joined Macrae in 2021.
Adil Lalani (London): Lalani has more than 20 years of
experience executing a range of exclusive partner searches and
representing partners and teams across practice areas. In the
course of his career, which has included operating his own boutique
search firm for six years, he has acquired a deep understanding of
the London market and, critically, how it ties into international
firms’ global presence and ambitions. He joined Macrae in 2023.
Sarah Morris (San Francisco): Morris represents partners and
partner groups across practice areas, including private equity
M&A, public company M&A, capital markets, tax,
restructuring and bankruptcy, and litigation. Before transitioning
to recruiting in 2012, she was a corporate attorney for five years
at Skadden, with a focus on M&A and corporate finance. Morris,
who holds a JD from Berkeley Law School, joined Macrae in 2021.
Rachel Nonaka (Washington, D.C.): Nonaka represents senior
government attorneys, partners and partner groups across practice
areas. Prior to joining Macrae in 2020, she served for over a
decade as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District
of Virginia, investigating and bringing white collar securities
enforcement actions. She holds a JD from the Villanova University
School of Law.
Eleonora Wäktare (London): Wäktare represents partners and
partner groups across practice areas in London, Brussels, Paris,
Germany and Luxembourg, and advises global law firms seeking to
strengthen their presence in these markets. Prior to joining Macrae
in 2019, she practiced competition law at WilmerHale and Covington
& Burling and was a case-handler at the Directorate-General for
Competition at the European Commission. She holds an LLM from the
College of Europe and a law degree from the University of
Liège.
About Macrae
Macrae is a transatlantic legal search firm with offices in
London, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Palo Alto.
Macrae works with the most successful and innovative law firms in
the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to bring on top
lateral partners and partner groups and open new offices. The
firm’s expertise also includes representing high-performing
partners seeking to make strategic moves and senior government
attorneys transitioning to private practice. Its commitment to
furthering inclusion and diversity in the legal industry is
reflected in the candidates it represents as well as within the
firm. Macrae is a majority women-owned business, and over 80% of
team members identify as belonging to demographic groups that are
underrepresented within the legal industry. To learn more about
Macrae, please visit Macrae.com.
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