Partner Organisations
Allen & Overy
Allen & Overy is a pioneering legal practice operating around the world at the frontline of developing business. By helping companies, institutions and governments tackle ever more complex issues and transactions on a global stage, it is leading the way and extending what is possible in law.
With 44 offices worldwide, plus a network of relationship firms in other locations, Allen & Overy is one of the few legal practices that can genuinely claim to be global, covering 99% of the world's economy.
For the firm's clients this means global reach and access to high-calibre, local expertise, while for trainees, it means exposure to international work, collaboration with colleagues in other offices and, in many cases, the opportunity to travel. In 2015, 73% of its transactional work involved two or more countries, 48% involved three or more, and 26% involved five or more countries.
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Ashurt
Ashurst LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Silver Circle' of leading UK law firms. Ashurst is the UK's 11th largest law firm by revenue, according to the latest Legal 100 table by Legal Business. It has 28 offices in 16 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and North America and employs around 1,700 legal advisers.
Its principal business focus is mergers and acquisitions, corporate and structured finance. The firm also has practices in other areas including antitrust, energy, transport and infrastructure, intellectual property, IT, dispute resolution, financial services, tax, real estate, employment and investment funds.
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Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance takes an integrated, full service approach which spans continents, cultures and time zones, jurisdictions, practice areas and industry sectors.
Its 'one firm' approach and partnership ethos have allowed Clifford Chance to provide commercially focused legal advice of the highest quality that consistently exceeds clients' expectations.
As a non-franchise law firm with an impressive breadth and depth of expertise across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East, Clifford Chance recruits only the best people at all levels of the business and places huge importance on teamwork. Clifford Chance expects its people to be flexible and creative and to have the desire and drive to embrace new experiences and challenges.
With excellent resources thanks to investment in the transference of global knowledge, skills, technology and know-how, Clifford Chance has been at the forefront of developments that have fundamentally changed the management of law firms during the past few years. The firm prides itself on looking to a future in which it will remain firmly in the vanguard of the dynamic and fast changing legal industry.
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Freshfields
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP founded in 1743 is a multinational law firm headquartered in London and a member of the Magic Circle of elite British law firms.
Freshfields is the oldest firm within the Magic Circle and is reported to be the oldest international law firm in the world. Its origins can be traced back to the early 18th century when it was appointed solicitor to the Bank of England. It continues to advise the Bank of England today.
Freshfields is the top ranked law firm for European, UK and Asia-Pacific M&A. As of 2015, it is the only magic circle firm to feature in the top five law firms in the world by deal value and is the highest ranked law firm by value in European M&A. In Thomson Reuters' UK M&A charts for 2014, Freshfields closed 91 transactions worth over $118 billion, over 50% more by value than the second ranked law firm.
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Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells is a leading global law firm, with 2,500 lawyers working in over 40 offices in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. Its scale and capability positions Hogan Lovells amongst the global elite of law firms, and provides our trainees with an international stage on which to develop their legal career.
Its international strength across a wide range of practice areas gives Hogan Lovells a strong reputation for corporate, finance, dispute resolution, government regulatory and intellectual property. This provides good training opportunities for those joining us.
The recruitment and training philosophy at Hogan Lovells is very simple: its continued success as a firm depends on the ability to attract and retain the brightest and most able people. Hogan Lovells currently recruits up to 75 trainee solicitors per year across two intakes in February and August, and we welcome applications from both law and non-law students.
The two-year training contract at Hogan Lovells is split into four six-month seats. As a trainee, you will move around four different practice areas during this time, to gain as much experience as possible - one of your seats will be in either our corporate or finance group, and another in one of our litigation teams. You will also have the option of spending time in the second year of training on secondment to one of our international offices or to the in-house legal team of a major client.
As a trainee at Hogan Lovells, you will be offered as much responsibility as you can handle relating to client work as well as a comprehensive legal skills training programme, regular reviews and appraisals. After qualification continuous training and development remain a priority - we enable the brightest minds to deepen their professional and business expertise throughout their career, which enhances the quality of advice Hogan Lovells provides to clients, its reputation and your ability to make the very best of your expertise.
Hogan Lovells also offers vacation schemes for first year law students and penultimate year law students, and open events for final year non-law students.
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Herbert Smith Freehills
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP is an international legal practice with over 2,800 lawyers in 20 offices around the world. The firm is the leading dispute resolution firm in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and is well known for its merger, acquisition and take-over advice, as well as most forms of financing. Its specialist services include energy, competition, insurance and intellectual property practices. As well as a strong academic record, Herbert Smith Freehills trainees require a strong level of commercial awareness and the common sense to be able to make their own way in a large firm. Combine these qualities with a creative and questioning mind, and Herbert Smith Freehills will offer you great challenges and rewards.
As one of the world’s leading law firms, they advise many of the biggest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. The firm’s clients trust it with their most important transactions, disputes and projects because of its ability to cut through complexity and mitigate risk.
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Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins LLP, founded in 1934, is the world’s highest-grossing law firm, with US$2.6 billion in annual revenue, and is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious and profitable law firms in the world.
Latham currently employs approximately 2,200 lawyers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm was founded in Los Angeles and has extensive Californian roots, with Latham's largest office now in New York City, with nearly 400 lawyers. The firm claims it is the only fully integrated multinational law firm with no one headquarters. In 2007, Latham & Watkins became the first American law firm to attain more than $2 billion in yearly revenue, and in 2015, the firm surpassed the likes of DLA Piper, Baker & McKenzie and Skadden to become the highest-grossing law firm in the world for the first time. The firm has historically been one of the highest-paying law firms in the world.
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Macfarlanes
Macfarlanes LLP is a corporate law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It advises national and multinational companies, business leaders and high-net-worth individuals in the UK and internationally across the full range of corporate and commercial matters as well as on their private affairs.
In 2015/16 Macfarlanes achieved total revenues of £161.03 million and profits per equity partner of £1.29 million. It is regarded as forming part of the "Silver Circle" of leading UK law firm.
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Travers Smith
Travers Smith LLP is an elite corporate law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It advises national and multinational companies in the UK and internationally across the full range of corporate and commercial matters.
In 2015/16 Travers Smith achieved total revenues of £120 million and profits per equity partner of £1.015 million. It is regarded as forming part of the "Silver Circle" of leading UK law firms and is one of the oldest firms in the City of London, having been founded in 1810.
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Slaughter and May
Slaughter and May is an international law firm headquartered in London, and a member of the Magic Circle of elite British law firms. It has profits per equity partner (PEP) higher than any other English law firm. It is one of the most profitable law firms in the world. In addition to London, it has offices in Beijing, Brussels and Hong Kong.
Slaughter and May employs approximately 560 fee-earners and 740 other staff. Despite being significantly smaller than the members of the Magic Circle in terms of revenue and employees, it boasts the largest number of FTSE100 and FTSE250 clients in the UK. In 2012/13, Slaughter and May achieved total revenues of £416.2 million and, as at 4 September 2015, it boasts the highest PEP in the City at £2.23 million, trailed by Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer at £1.42 million and £1.37 million respectively. According to US careers publisher Vault, Slaughter and May is viewed by English solicitors as the most prestigious law firm in the United Kingdom.
Slaughter and May’s core practice areas are Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial, and Financing.
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White & Case
Founded 115 years ago, White & Case has grown from its New York beginnings to become a truly global law firm with a longstanding presence in the markets that matter today, helping clients work with confidence in any one market or many. White & Case's recent history has seen fundamental changes-from expansion in emerging markets to its leadership-remaking the firm's identity while remaining a go-to firm for international matters with strong institutional ties to America's corporate elite.
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