Our vision
"We will be the global law firm of choice for the world's leading businesses of today and tomorrow. Attracting and retaining the best talent is central to reaching this goal."
Charles Adams, Global Managing Partner
Our ground-breaking deals put us at the heart of international business events as they unfold
Our remit as lawyers extends beyond individual jurisdictions, across Asia Pacific and globally. We need to understand all the dynamics and find the best possible solutions for our clients.
We blend legal expertise and business focus with a truly international outlook. We work together across borders, languages, and legal systems, sharing insights and expertise to achieve our clients' commercial goals.
Lawyers for a changing world
The scale and quality of our legal resources across the key markets of Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East are unrivalled, and reflect the areas in which our clients are operating.
We pride ourselves on the service we provide to our clients, many of whom are world leaders in their sectors. In addition to legal expertise, they are also looking for advice on business-critical issues and market opportunities. Our lawyers and business support professionals are committed to providing focused "one firm" solutions to our clients, wherever they are located, across different jurisdictions, time zones and cultures. We find new ways to build relationships and deliver the results that matter. It takes immense drive and motivation to stay ahead in a world that's changing as fast as ours. If you're excited and inspired by that, Clifford Chance could be the right firm for you. Our firm has more tier-one rankings in the cross-border tables of Chambers Global than any other international firm.
What our lawyers do
Our ground-breaking deals put us at the heart of international business events as they unfold.
Our commercial lawyers make many of the high-profile and influential deals in the world happen, whether it's building a stadium, funding a global bank, leasing a fleet of airliners, providing complex regulatory advice, or arranging a merger between multinational companies.
Corporate law provides the code that governs how these deals take place. Often though, the corporate legal framework hasn't anticipated the types of transactions and ways of working that happen in our modern world. We help clients to understand how this legal code affects them, and, more importantly, the best ways of working within it.
It's interesting and challenging work. Each country has its own laws and set of regulations. What's easy in one place can be difficult in another, and impossible in a third. Our remit as lawyers extends beyond individual jurisdictions, across Asia Pacific and globally. We need to understand all the dynamics and find the best possible solutions for our clients. We blend legal expertise and business focus with a truly international outlook.
What makes Clifford Chance lawyers different?
Firstly, our collaborative and adaptable culture. We work together across borders, languages and legal systems, sharing insights and expertise to achieve our clients' commercial goals.
Secondly, we're pioneers, working on many 'first of their kind' deals.
Finally, it's the nature of our people; highly professional and self-assured, with an entrepreneurial streak, they embrace our culture of learning, and are more than happy to share their expertise and knowledge.
Global secondment opportunities for associates at Clifford Chance
Antitrust Secondment Exchange Programme
We have a global network of over 160 antitrust lawyers covers all the key hubs of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the US. Our antitrust secondment exchange programme offers associates the chance to drive collaboration across markets, practice areas, regions and countries. We aim to build agile teams with the skills, capabilities, and mindset to win and confidently deliver complex mandates with the world's leading businesses.
Our antitrust teams work together to solve global antitrust issues, taking into account the interplay between different practices and rules, and always mindful of the practical implications antitrust issues may have on our clients' business.
Available to our Antitrust associates who would like to take a short-term secondment (six-month maximum) to another office.
Technology Secondment Exchange Programme
Our technology teams create new digital solutions to deliver our legal services in different and innovative ways. Technology sets us apart in transforming legal service delivery. Engaging with our clients and business partners, we creatively combine our core technology solutions with flexible application to deliver efficiencies.
We value our global reach and range of resources across five continents; our technology secondment exchange programme offers associates the chance to drive collaboration across markets, regions and countries. We aim to build agile teams with the skills, capabilities and mindset to win and confidently deliver complex mandates with the world's leading businesses.
Available to associates with an interest in Tech law, with a minimum of two years qualification experience, who would like to take a short-term secondment (six months maximum) to another office.