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The firm · Executive Search
A reference in executive recruitment since 2010
BCP Partners helps companies identify and recruit their executives and high-potential managers. Every search is run on an exclusive mandate, in confidence, by the consultant who listened to you at the brief.
Ranked “Incontournable” since
2011
Recruitment of legal and tax executives, on exclusive mandates and in confidence.
Widely recognised since
2015
Recruitment advisory for private equity, on leadership appointments.
A reputed practice in
2016
Support in human resources and governance. Leadership, transformation and managerial excellence.
Since 2010
A recognised name in the recruitment of executives
Since 2010, BCP Partners has established itself as a leading firm in the recruitment of executives and strategic managers, particularly across the legal and compliance functions.
Our consultants support companies in finance, legal, ethics and compliance, sustainability and HR. Every search is scoped with you before it starts, then run in confidence.
With an international network, the firm conducts its searches in France and abroad. One mandate in two comes from a client who returns.
Discover our approach An independent firm
Why the firm was founded
BCP Partners was born of a choice of independence. Inside a large network, partners share the accounts, and every assignment depends on internal trade-offs between them. The firm was founded so that the relationship with a client depends on nothing but the assignment itself.
That independence has a second consequence, less visible. A firm does not approach the employees of its own clients. The wider the network, the longer the list of companies it may not approach, and the smaller the accessible pool becomes. Ours is a short list. We search where the large networks can no longer go.
Our rules, written in black and white Our added value
What you get beyond a list of candidates
Practitioner expertise
We bring solutions that fit, drawn from our own experience inside listed groups and investment funds.
Scoping before searching
We agree with you the scope of the role and the balances of the organisation before approaching anyone.
A direct network
Our network reaches executives who are not looking and who answer no advertisement.
The team
A team of specialists dedicated to executive recruitment
Experienced professionals, dedicated to your strategic issues.
Blandine Cordier-Palasse
Founder and PresidentA lawyer, then General Counsel and Company Secretary of listed groups for twenty years. She moved into Executive Search at Boyden in 2008, before founding BCP Partners in 2010.
Co-founder of the Cercle de la Compliance in 2011. Member of the scientific committee of Labrador on transparency and compliance, of the strategic committee of Optivalue.ai, sovereign AI applied to compliance, and of the Cercle de l’Excellence RH of Groupe RH&M.
Ranked every year since 2011 as an “Incontournable” of legal and tax director recruitment by Décideurs.
She speaks regularly at Sciences Po, ESSEC and Dauphine. Her international network and her reading of the market make her a reference in legal and compliance recruitment in France.
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Our philosophy
“Think out of the box”
Innovate, adapt, excel.
We identify and mobilise the executives who transform a company. Nine assignments in ten conclude in under two months, and all of them stay confidential.
Our commitments
Our commitment to cultural and social life
Because a recruitment firm should also contribute to cultural and social life, BCP Partners supports initiatives that carry meaning and serve the collective good.
Course de l’EDHEC
Going beyond oneself
We support a team of women engineers from EPF (École Polytechnique Féminine) in the EDHEC sailing race. This challenge embodies a spirit of endeavour and commitment, values we share.
The talent of tomorrow
Helping young graduates into work
We support NQT, an association that since 2006 has helped graduates from modest backgrounds into professional life, by putting our recruiters’ expertise at their service.
Frequently asked questions
What sets us apart
We have held the functions we recruit. The firm was founded in 2010 by Blandine Cordier-Palasse, a lawyer, then General Counsel and Company Secretary of listed groups for twenty years, before she moved into Executive Search. That practice changes everything. The brief reads the organisation from the inside, and candidates speak frankly to a firm that comes from their own world. The evidence is dated and verifiable. The firm has been ranked every year since 2011 as an “Incontournable” of legal and tax director recruitment by Décideurs. Our founder co-founded the Cercle de la Compliance in 2011. Half of our mandates come from clients who return, and several have trusted us for more than ten years. In sixteen years, our buy-back guarantee has been invoked twice, never for an error of judgement.
Through the brief, which with us is joint work. We do not treat a job description as a set of specifications. The initial brief refines with you what the role genuinely demands. Its scope, its context, its balances, its conditions for success. That precision is what allows us to identify the right candidates and to present them to you accurately. The assessment follows the same logic. Beyond skills, we measure how each candidate will operate inside your system, because with equivalent CVs two people do not succeed in the same way in the same organisation. Every finalist is presented with a complete file. Career history analysed, personality tests explained, references cross-checked, a reasoned recommendation with its points of attention. And sometimes we present an outsider able to make the difference by a remarkable step sideways.
The follow-up does not stop at signature. We support the appointee and your organisation through the integration period, with a structured follow-up that runs over a full year. Regular reviews, with the appointed executive and with you, catch early whatever could weaken the start in post and allow an adjustment before the subject becomes a problem. This follow-up rests on our six-month buy-back guarantee. If the candidate leaves the role during that period, we run the assignment again at no further fee. In sixteen years, that clause has been invoked twice, in both cases for personal reasons of the candidate, never for an error of judgement. The success of an appointment is measured over time, not on the day of signature, and our method is built on that conviction.