Balquis Hussein

Balquis specialises in compliance, financial crime, governance and risk recruitment for a range of clients, including both multinational and regional organisations. She works closely with firms across industries, including banking, financial services, government entities, law firms, corporate and commercial and professional services, working with both local and international talent.

Since 2015, Balquis has successfully worked and delivered on mandates globally and is now developing our presence for compliance, financial crime, governance and risk recruitment in the Middle East.

Balquis's Insights and Articles

Talent is everywhere, access is not: Russell Johnstone on purposeful trusteeship

• Posted september 9, 2026

Contents Share For Russell Johnstone, trusteeship is where senior commercial judgment meets social purpose. With a career advising some of the UK’s most prominent consumer, media and technology businesses, including as General Counsel for BT’s Consumer division, he now brings board-level judgment, regulatory fluency and commercial discipline to three organisations united by a powerful idea: […]

How data protection leaders can hold the C-suite’s attention

• Posted september 4, 2026

Contents Share Key insights Executive attention is the scarcest resource a data protection function competes for. Winning the C-suite’s attention is often the easy part: a regulatory deadline or a data breach naturally puts privacy on the board agenda without any effort from the Data Protection Officer (DPO).   Keeping that attention is what allows privacy programmes to grow beyond a team of one.  Across data protection recruitment, the […]

How tech and life sciences companies should hire legal leaders for growth

• Posted september 4, 2026

Contents Share Key insights High-growth companies rarely need the same legal function for long.  A technology startup may initially need support with intellectual property and commercial contracts before enterprise growth, AI adoption or international expansion changes the legal brief. A life sciences company may move from fundraising and IP protection into clinical development, licensing and commercialization.  The challenge is recognising when […]

What does a data centre lawyer do? Understanding one of the legal market’s most elusive skill sets

• Posted september 3, 2026

Contents Share Key insights What is the remit of a data centre lawyer? It is a question we are being asked with increasing frequency by C-suite leaders preparing to make their first General Counsel hire, by existing in-house legal teams assessing where their capability gaps lie, and by lawyers themselves trying to understand how to […]

Real estate partner hiring in Birmingham law firms

• Posted september 3, 2026

Contents Share Key insights While activity across the Birmingham legal market remains strong, one practice area continues to attract more partner-level investment than any other: real estate. According to publicly available data tracked by Pirical, real estate accounted for 20 lateral partner hires in Birmingham between July 2025 and July 2026, representing 24% of all […]

Why more businesses are building in-house legal teams in UK regions

• Posted september 2, 2026

Contents Share Key insights The UK’s in-house legal recruitment market has evolved significantly over the past decade. Businesses across Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and other major UK centres are building established legal functions, creating more choice over where organisations hire and where lawyers build their careers. This is not simply a shift away from London. It […]