Wall Street headhunter CTPartners has gone from predator to prey in just six short months, The New York Post reported yesterday. The New York-based executive search firm — once the seventh-largest in the U.S. and one of the few publicly traded — is expected to file for bankruptcy on Tuesday after it was rocked by allegations of rampant sexual discrimination. Barring a white knight, CTPartners will close its doors and be sold off in pieces to its nearest rival. Few could have predicted CTPartner’s swift collapse in December, when its stock was trading near a record high of $24. Led by then-CEO Brian Sullivan, the firm was in expansion mode and buying competitors overseas. The trouble began Dec. 8, when a complaint had been lodged with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging female employees at the firm were underpaid and routinely subjected to sexual harassment.
