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“I have found Canny, Bowen to be a first rate search firm. Broad reach, a high degree of professionalism, and customized personal attention by experienced senior professionals, are hallmarks of the firm’s work. In the legal arena, I have seen their work on General Counsel searches, as well as for other senior legal positions, including those in intellectual property and corporate securities. At least two of those searches for Fortune 500 companies led to the placement of General Counsel who went on ultimately to lead the businesses, one as CEO, the other as EVP and Group President.”

John L. McGoldrick
Chair, Zimmer Holdings, and previously Executive Vice
President and General Counsel of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Legal Search

For over half a century, Canny, Bowen has been a generalist search firm specializing in senior level executive and legal search. During this time recruiting General Counsels and other senior level legal positions has been our most active practice. In addition to Chief Legal Officer searches, we have recruited the heads of legal specialties in the following areas: Litigation, Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Tax, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Employment/Labor, Corporate Securities/M&A and Corporate Secretary.

Canny, Bowen’s business model is unique, thereby providing our clients an advantage in the marketplace. How?

Modest in size to minimize “off limits” problems
Privately-owned and accountable only to clients
A Partner handles all aspects of the search and does not delegate to junior associates
Our two Partners who lead the Legal search practice have invaluable networks in the legal community developed over the course of 40 plus years of combined recruiting experience
Active network of diversity candidates
Blue-Ribbon client list
Exclusively retained search firm

It is noteworthy that one Partner, David Peasback, practiced law with Covington & Burling, the preeminent law firm in Washington, DC.

Partners David Peasback and Greg Gabel handle most senior level legal assignments as a team. Their experience includes General Counsel assignments for IBM, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bechtel, International Paper, Lenovo Group, Qwest Communications, PPG Industries, Zimmer Holdings, Cooper Industries, Johns Manville, Parsons Brinckerhoff (global engineering and construction management firm), and Pyramid Management Group (largest privately owned developer of shopping centers in the US), among others.

Two other searches for General Electric are particularly noteworthy: Corporate Head of Litigation and Legal Policy for all of GE and Head of Litigation for GE Capital. In addition, they have handled searches in a number of other legal specialties such as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Head of Corporate Securities, and Chief Compliance Counsel, to name just a few.

Canny, Bowen was selected to do many of these assignments because the clients were dissatisfied with the prior performance of the large global executive search firms—conflicts which prevented a thorough search and delegation of the work to junior associates.

Please contact us to discuss our track record. We are particularly proud that two of our General Counsel placements in recent years were promoted to CEO of their respective Fortune 500 companies.