Jennifer Herrmann is a lawyer and co-leads Spencer Stuart's global Legal Search Practice with responsibility for North America. She handles senior legal assignments across multiple industries, including financial services, consumer goods and services, industrial, life sciences and technology. Her work includes general counsel searches as well as corporate secretary, chief compliance officer and senior securities counsel assignments. Jennifer also manages the firm’s Philadelphia office.
Jennifer has conducted numerous major legal and compliance searches for financial services companies, including general counsel searches for AIG, AIG Advisor Group, AIG VALIC, AIM Management Group, Allianz Global Investors, Allianz Global Investors of America, Bank of New York, Conseco, Eaton Vance, H&R Block, HSBC (CIBM), Och-Ziff Capital Management, State Street Global Advisors, UnumProvident and Zurich North America. Her chief compliance officer searches in the sector have included AIM Management Group, Bank of America Wealth & Investment Management, Citizens Financial Group, Mercer Global Investments, Prudential Financial and Washington Mutual.
Her work across a wide variety of other industries has included general counsel searches for Bechtel Group, Boeing, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, Cinergy Corporation, Constellation Group, Eaton Corporation, Fluor, Jacuzzi Inc., Terra Industries, The Sun Products Corporation and USEC, Inc.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart in 1997, Jennifer was an attorney with the Philadelphia law firm of Marks, O'Neill, Reilly, O'Brien and Courtney, P.C., where she specialized in litigation. She is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware state and federal bars.
Jennifer earned her law degree from Widener University School of Law and graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in international relations.