Legal recruiter Shilton Sharpe Quarry (SSQ) is set to expand into mainland China and Singapore next year, its chief executive Nick Shilton has told Recruiter.

Shilton says: “We expect all our existing business units to grow in 2013. In particular, our recently founded interims business in the UK has considerable growth potential and we also expect to expand our presence in Asia, including entering mainland China and Singapore.”

SSQ already has offices across the world, including in Hong Kong, in addition to its London headquarters. The firm recently came top of Recruiter's HOT 100 2012 league table, sponsored by Microdec, making it the UK’s most profitable and efficient recruitment agency.

Shilton was speaking to Recruiter as SSQ was named one of the elite group of 11 recruiters who made both the HOT 100 and the January 2012 FAST 50 list of the UK’s fastest-growing recruiters. 

Shilton also claimed that the firm’s 2012 figures have “already eclipsed those on which these listed are based”.