jeff-lowe-major-lindsey Jeffrey Lowe, formerly of Major, Lindsey & Africa, started a new search firm. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

After two decades of leading Major, Lindsey & Africa's Washington, D.C., office, Jeffrey Lowe parted ways with the global search firm this month to launch a rival recruitment firm.

Lowe, who served as global practice leader of Major Lindsey's law firm practice group for more than a decade and was founder and managing partner of the firm's Washington office since its inception in 2003, said he left the global search firm Aug. 4 in the days leading up to the formation of his eponymous LLC, Jeffrey Lowe Partners.

At the time of its launch, the new firm consists of only Lowe as managing partner and Don Currin, who completed a two-decade run as managing director of markets and strategy for Paul Hastings earlier this year, as managing director.