Jobs at Clifford Chance

Cooperative training placement for Saudi university students at an international law firm in Riyadh. Trainees support lawyers and business professionals on live legal matters, develop legal, commercial, and business skills, participate in training and networking, and select a preferred practice area. Candidates must meet nationality, GPA, university enrollment, availability, communication, and assessment requirements.

Designs and improves structured legal and client knowledge assets across search, intranet, taxonomy, content operations, and AI-enabled solutions. The role develops metadata models, supports retrieval and prompt workflows, evaluates AI outputs, maps legal workflows, shapes prototypes and pilots, and improves discoverability, governance, adoption, and reuse. It collaborates with lawyers, product, technology, data, risk, compliance, and operations teams to deliver practical, secure, and scalable knowledge experiences.

Manage global indirect tax risk, compliance, governance, and advisory activities across an international law firm. Provide guidance on VAT, GST, billing, cross-border services, systems changes, and business structuring. Develop tax policies, controls, processes, and reporting frameworks while partnering with Finance, Billing, Risk, Compliance, and external advisers. The role includes line management of a Delhi-based team member, stakeholder advisory, tax risk management, process improvements, and support for finance systems and e-invoicing projects.

Supports global business development and marketing strategy for a legal services product group. Responsibilities include market, client, competitor and trend research; tracking plans and ROI; developing pitches and capability statements; identifying revenue opportunities; coordinating events, sponsorships, PR and communications; preparing awards and directory submissions; producing thought leadership; and collaborating with partners, lawyers and global BD teams.

Manages the firm's global indirect tax risk, compliance, governance, and advisory activities. Provides guidance on VAT, GST, billing, cross-border services, systems changes, and business structuring; supports reporting controls, reconciliations, policies, e-invoicing, and tax-related projects. Partners with Finance, Billing, Risk, Compliance, legal teams, tax authorities, and external advisers. The role also includes line management of a Delhi-based team member and stakeholder management across the firm's international offices.

Leads the London Corporate Transactions & Advisory Knowledge and Training and Thought Leadership team. Responsibilities include managing Knowledge Lawyers, setting strategy, analyzing company law and corporate governance developments, maintaining templates and knowledge resources, delivering training, supporting legal committees, and promoting AI and legal technology adoption. The role also coordinates thought leadership, regulatory consultation responses, client communications, and knowledge sharing across global product groups.

Designs, coordinates, and delivers legal training programs for corporate transactions, private equity, and related practice groups. Responsibilities include developing courses, facilitating sessions, managing trainee programs, coordinating internal and external speakers, partnering with lawyers and senior stakeholders, supporting client training, and aligning learning programs with AI and legal technology. The role also contributes to knowledge-management initiatives, induction programs, cross-border training, and strategic firm projects.

Supports the global Strategic Account Management team with client account administration and development activities. Responsibilities include maintaining client relationship infrastructure, coordinating internal meetings, tracking actions, managing fee and secondment information, preparing client reports and meeting materials, conducting client research, supporting client plans, and assisting with client feedback processes.

One-month summer internship for law students interested in antitrust law at Clifford Chance’s Brussels office. Interns receive temporary student employment contracts and gain exposure to an international legal practice. Applicants should demonstrate strong academic performance, ambition, potential, articulate communication, and excellent English. Students studying in Belgium must have completed their first year of master’s studies. Applications require a CV with picture, cover letter, and official law-school transcripts.

Reviews conflict-clearance requests for amended, supplementary, and new matters; researches client and counterparty relationships using internal systems and external databases; assesses compliance with firm policies, regulatory requirements, and conflicts rules; communicates with partners and fee earners; follows up to complete requests; and escalates complex matters to senior team members.

A two-year early-career development programme for Year 12, S5, or Lower Sixth students from eligible backgrounds. Participants receive mentoring, legal-sector exposure, business-skills training, executive coaching, networking, university application guidance, and work experiences with Clifford Chance and partner companies. Successful completion may lead to an opportunity to apply for the SPARK programme and potentially a training contract. No prior legal experience or knowledge is required.

An in-person London insight event introducing students to Clifford Chance, legal careers, high-profile deals, application processes, trainee experiences, affinity networks, and firm culture. Participants complete interactive workshops, meet lawyers, explore current legal topics, and learn about SPARK and Training Contract opportunities.

A student insight event introducing prospective candidates to Clifford Chance’s Middle East legal careers. Attendees will meet lawyers and early-career professionals, learn about regional work and landmark deals, explore training contract and vacation scheme opportunities, and receive guidance on applications, PGDL, SQE requirements, and future trainee support.

Immersive insight programme for penultimate-year law students and final-year non-law students. Participants collaborate on complex legal and business challenges for a fictional global client, using AI tools while developing problem-solving, teamwork, adaptability, and commercial awareness. The programme includes a virtual session and two in-person London events, with successful participants potentially fast-tracked to a Training Contract Assessment Day.

Entry-level legal training role combining a Middle East vacation scheme and two-year training contract. Trainees rotate through commercial law seats including capital markets, finance, disputes, corporate transactions, real estate, restructuring, and funds. Responsibilities include drafting documents, due diligence, legal research, client meetings, transaction support, and court preparation. Candidates must demonstrate strong academics, commercial awareness, communication, teamwork, organisation, problem-solving, client focus, and commitment to building a legal career in the Middle East.

Two-year commercial law training contract with four six-month rotations across global product groups. Trainees develop legal and business skills through drafting, due diligence, client meetings, court preparation, transaction support, and legal research. The role includes structured training, mentorship, and possible international, client, or pro bono secondments. Applicants must meet academic and eligibility requirements and demonstrate commercial awareness, communication, teamwork, organization, resilience, and a commitment to learning.

Advise private capital clients and corporates on complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, including M&A, private equity, joint ventures, investments, restructurings and exits. Draft and negotiate transaction documents, manage due diligence and multi-jurisdictional workstreams, coordinate advisers, supervise junior lawyers, support client development, and contribute to legal know-how and training.

Four-week summer internship with Clifford Chance Asia and Cavenagh Law LLP. Interns rotate through two practice areas, work with lawyers on live client matters, and gain practical exposure to international legal work. Candidates should demonstrate ambition, clear communication, business awareness, commercial insight, intellectual curiosity, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to assimilate detailed information. Applicants must be eligible for admission to the Singapore Bar and able to begin a practice training contract in 2029 or 2030.

Supports order-to-cash finance activities, including new matter opening, billing information maintenance, fee-earner rate updates, overdue invoice collection, billing dispatch, bill amendments, authorization, and printing. The role coordinates with finance, secretarial, offshore, office, and legal teams across European offices. It requires strong English and French communication, organizational accuracy, process understanding, stakeholder engagement, and proficiency with Excel and IT systems.

Advise sponsors, lenders, governments, contractors, and investors on project development and finance for energy and infrastructure projects. Negotiate project financing, holdco financing, tax equity, credit agreements, collateral documents, construction-to-back-leverage structures, public-private partnerships, risk allocation, and regulatory matters across multiple jurisdictions. The role requires at least six years of US project finance experience and New York bar admission.