Tom Hanlon, Director at specialist legal recruitment firm Buchanan Law discusses how his business set up shop in Miami.
It’s hard to believe that when Miami was first incorporated as a city in July 1896, it was home to just over 300 citizens. By the time we arrived in our splendid new Brickell office earlier this year, the Magic City’s population was pushing towards the 500,000 mark with numerous small business start-ups making their way and many of the largest US law firms expanding their local footprint.
The move was certainly a big step for Buchanan Law, a London-based specialist international legal recruitment firm. Launching our first US office – and our first outside the UK – we chose Miami over New York because of favourable corporate tax rates and an ability to attract a high level of talented people who were choosing Florida’s south coast to suit their lifestyle aspirations. Many of our law firm clients were already here and growing, or about to open. So, we wanted to catch the city at its pivotal growth point and share in the benefits of that growth.