Perrett Laver is an executive search firm that recruits senior leaders and also offers advisory services and multi-role campaigns. Its sectors include higher education, research, and schools and educational organisations, alongside health and life sciences, government, social impact, and arts, culture and sport.

The firm says it is 100% employee owned and has more than 160 people across 21 locations. Its office list includes London and Glasgow in the UK and Abu Dhabi in the Middle East; no Indian office is listed. Its homepage names universities including the University of Cambridge, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, the University of Melbourne, University College Dublin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto. The site says the firm is marking 25 years but does not give a founding year.