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Top 25 Retained executive search firms based in Brazil
RevenueBase identified 1,068 retained executive search firms headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 12,399 professional contacts across them, including 1,174 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.
This list covers retained executive search firms headquartered in Brazil, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest retained executive search firms based in Brazil
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 742 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Há mais de 50 anos no mercado, o Grupo SERES oferece soluções em Recursos Humanos, com comprometimento, inovação, ética e responsabilidade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 658 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “STATO INTOO specializes in providing solutions in Career Transition (Outplacement), Executive Search, and Leadership Development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 460 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sua empresa é única.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nosso objetivo é prestar serviços de Recrutamento e Seleção de forma completa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Com 40 anos de atuação, a Thomas Case & Associados é uma das precursoras em serviços de recolocação de executivos no Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O principal diferencial de mercado da Carpediem Consultoria é o relacionamento próximo com todos os seus clientes, candidatos e fornecedores, oferecendo um ambiente acolhedor e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empresa especializada em Recrutamento e Seleção.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Criada em 1986 pelo renomado headhunter Bernt Entschev, a consultoria de recursos humanos De Bernt Entschev é hoje uma das maiores do Brasil em seu segmento e se destaca por…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1993 and managed by Miriam Sion Adissi, a professional with over 20 years of solid experience in Human Resources, MSA is specialized in the coordination of large…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Desde 1995, a HG Recursos Humanos vem apoiando empresas dos mais variados portes, segmentos e nacionalidades na gestão do capital humano, oferecendo soluções em recrutamento e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A company with 30 years of experience, Fênix aims to search, select and evaluate the best professionals in the job market, to fill effective, temporary, outsourced or internship…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Hiring é uma empresa conceituada em Recrutamento & Seleção, composta por consultores especializados, que se diferencia pelo modelo de gestão orientado a fortes valores…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As vagas das melhores empresas estão na BM VAGAS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Com mais de 20 anos de história, a Mendes Talent é uma consultoria de R&S especializada na atração de candidatos de todos os níveis e setores, com especialização em Operational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A ICON Solutions é especialista em pessoas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Referência em qualidade na seleção e desenvolvimento de liderança para cargos de Alta Gestão e Conselhos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Consultoria de Recursos Humanos em atividade desde o ano de especializada em prospecção e avaliação de profissionais para posições táticas ou estratégicas, atendendo importantes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A DMRH é responsável por identificar talentos com experiência e conectá-los às melhores empresas e oportunidades de carreira.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “No mundo dinâmico dos negócios, cada decisão tomada pode influenciar diretamente o sucesso de uma organização.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A To Hunt Consultoria foi criada em 2011 por Cláudio Pereira, headhunter com mais de 13 anos de experiência, para atender empresas nacionais e multinacionais nas demandas de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A Staff Recursos Humanos é uma Consultoria de RH especializada em recrutamento e seleção para as áreas de TI, Especialistas, e Executive Search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Potencial RH é uma empresa especializada em consultoria de gestão com foco predominante em Recursos Humanos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Somos a consultoria especialista em soluções e contratações de executivos para impulsionar grandes transformações.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos a maior consultoria de recrutamento no Nordeste, e abraçamos a missão de impulsionar as empresas superando seus desafios através do capital humano mais qualificado do…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Place Consultoria e RH é uma organização que oferece soluções em recrutamento, seleção e hunting de profissionais, de nível tático e estratégico, bem como sistema de avaliações…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: retained executive search firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names retained executive search firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retained executive search firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retained executive search firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Retained executive search firms based in Brazil at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Brazil, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Brazil, over 1,068 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among retained executive search firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “retained executive search firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names retained executive search firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among retained executive search firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Brazil are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,174 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Retained executive search firms by metro
- Retained executive search firms in Sao Paulo392
- Retained executive search firms in Curitiba75
- Retained executive search firms in Rio De Janeiro67
- Retained executive search firms in Porto Alegre54
- Retained executive search firms in Belo Horizonte38
- Retained executive search firms in Campinas28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names retained executive search firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many retained executive search firms are there based in Brazil?
RevenueBase identified 1,068 retained executive search firms headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Grupo Seres, headquartered in Rio De Janeiro, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retained executive search firms?
Sao Paulo leads with 392 headquartered companies, followed by Curitiba (75) and Rio De Janeiro (67).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.
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