Careers

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FIRM is deliberately small. We look for senior people who do their own work — and we'd rather hear from you before we need you than run a standing recruitment pipeline.

ZÜRICH · DUBAI

01Why FIRM

A small practice, on purpose

I

Senior-only work

No bench of juniors doing the real work out of sight — you do the work you're hired for, yourself.

II

No success fees

Findings owe nothing to the outcome. That principle shapes how the practice is run internally, too.

III

Two hubs, one standard

Zürich and Dubai give genuinely international scope without losing a small firm's coherence.

IV

Confidentiality as discipline

Discretion is a working habit here, not a line in a brochure.

02Where you'd fit

We hire opportunistically, not by headcount

There are no open postings listed here on principle — we hire when we meet the right person, not on a schedule. Four disciplines we return to most often:

01

Field investigator

Enquiry work, interviews and verification on the ground. Investigative journalism, law enforcement and intelligence backgrounds all translate well. What the work looks like

Most weeks mix desk preparation with time in the field: identifying and approaching sources, sitting interviews, and confirming on the ground what the records only imply. You write your own findings and stand behind them.

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02

Financial investigator

Following money through holding layers, trusts and jurisdictions — asset tracing, source of wealth, and the evidence to support both. What the work looks like

You reconstruct ownership and money flow from filings, registers, court records and banking documentation, then set out what is established, what is inferred and what remains open — in a form counsel can use.

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03

Open-source & records analyst

Patient work across corporate registries, court files, sanctions data and specialised sources. Precision matters more than speed. What the work looks like

Long-form record work: pulling filings across jurisdictions, reading them properly, and separating a real match from a similar name. Languages beyond English are an advantage, method and patience more so.

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04

Case management

Running mandates end to end — scoping, timelines, delivery — for clients who expect a calm, organised counterpart. What the work looks like

You hold the file: scope agreed and conflicts cleared at intake, the client kept informed without being managed, and delivery on the date promised. The steady point between the client and the desk.

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03How we hire

A conversation, not a form

There is no form. Write to us like a person — and a person writes back.
No application forms and no standing pipeline. Send a short note on what you have actually worked on, together with a CV. Everyone gets an answer, including a no — and where there is no fit today, genuinely strong profiles stay on file for when there is.

Think you're a fit?

Write to careers@firm-ch.com