Stephenson Harwood – Company Profile

Join a full-service international law firm that’s ambitious, growing and delivering groundbreaking deals. For a firm of our size we are very international. We have a huge depth of international experience, clients across the world (some 60% are non-UK) and regularly advise on multi-jurisdictional transactions and disputes, offering clients commercially-focused advice and outstanding service no matter where in the world they operate. Through our international network of offices and affiliates, we provide clients with quality resources and expert local knowledge in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Indeed, with some 25% of our people operating out of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore, our link to Asia is stronger than ever.

Our know-how encompasses corporate, dispute resolution, employment and pensions, environment, finance, real estate, projects and tax. Our clients are hugely varied too. But whether they’re corporates, institutions or individuals, we invest time in getting to know them, forge relationships based on honesty and generate practical solutions that cement loyalty.

Our training contract

Two years, four seats and the attention, exposure and opportunity to maximise your learning and development; that’s what we offer the 16 trainees we take on each year. Because our training is not only structured and practical but highly personalised, you’ll be able to progress along a path that’s absolutely right for you.

Following a week’s intensive induction and a comprehensive post-induction programme that continues in your first seat, you’ll complete four seats, each six months long, across different practice groups. Whatever the practice, expect stimulating, cutting-edge projects. You could find yourself working on anything from a high-profile, multi-million pound financial litigation case to a groundbreaking M&A deal.

Trainees can also apply to gain experience overseas in either our Hong Kong or Singapore office.

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