Jobs at Clifford Chance

Leads legal talent acquisition for the Paris office, managing experienced-hire and early-talent recruitment. Partners with senior stakeholders on hiring strategies, workforce planning, sourcing, assessment, candidate experience, employer branding, and talent-market insights. Oversees university and agency relationships, recruitment pipelines, and consistent global hiring processes. Uses recruitment data, technology, and AI-enabled tools to improve delivery while collaborating with international Talent Acquisition teams.

Supports firm-wide accounts receivable collections by partnering with fee earners, resolving billing and e-billing queries, pursuing outstanding debts, escalating recovery risks, and coordinating cash allocation and client fund reimbursements. The role maintains client finance relationships, ensures compliance with finance policies and client-money requirements, updates collections systems, and delivers timely solutions across offices.

Advise multinational clients on antitrust and competition matters, including merger control, foreign investment, market investigations, cartel and dominance cases, litigation, state aid, subsidies, and public procurement. Prepare regulatory filings and legal documents, provide commercially focused advice, develop client relationships, and contribute to business development and thought leadership across international, multidisciplinary teams.

Coordinates monthly client billing for assigned law firm partners, including preparing prebills, processing revisions, submitting e-bills, finalizing invoices, monitoring work in progress, and ensuring compliance with client billing guidelines. Maintains billing records, sets up matters, resolves discrepancies, prepares reports, responds to inquiries, and supports billing projections. The role requires legal billing experience, strong analytical and organizational skills, and regular in-office work.

Coordinates monthly client billing for assigned law firm partners, including preparing prebills, processing revisions, managing e-bills, posting invoices, monitoring work in progress, and ensuring compliance with client billing guidelines. The role communicates with attorneys, clients, accounts payable, and billing teams; maintains billing documentation; resolves discrepancies; prepares reports; and monitors billing projections and approvals.

Summer Students Programme for penultimate-year Spanish law students seeking initial professional experience at an international law firm. Interns will work with lawyers, gain exposure to legal matters and transactions, attend training, develop legal and commercial understanding, and connect with professionals across Clifford Chance’s practice groups. The programme includes online application, video interview, and competency-based interview stages, with placements beginning in June or July 2027.

Partners with senior leaders across the Middle East and Türkiye to deliver people and talent strategy. Advises on employee relations, performance, reward, succession, talent management, career development, inclusion, wellbeing, workforce planning, and HR analytics. Leads and develops regional HR team members, supports strategic projects and early talent programs, manages compensation processes, and provides commercially informed guidance within a global, matrixed professional services environment.

Prepare and review federal, state, and international tax compliance filings, with a strong focus on multistate taxation, nexus, PTET obligations, estimated payments, reconciliations, and tax workpapers. Analyze tax implications of employee relocations and WFH arrangements, support UK U.S. tax reporting, review Forms W-8 and 1065/1042 filings, monitor sales and use tax obligations, coordinate external tax advisors, and research evolving tax regulations.

Leads the Americas tax function, overseeing US tax compliance, partnership and partner tax matters, tax advisory, risk management, governance, filings, audits, controls, and regional tax projects. Advises senior stakeholders on federal, state, local, international, expatriate, payroll, and benefits tax matters. Manages external advisers, coordinates tax reporting across the Americas, develops policies and processes, and leads a tax team.

Advise leading companies on public and private M&A, private equity transactions, joint ventures, divestments, demergers, restructurings, governance, and regulatory compliance. Manage complex cross-border deals, collaborate with clients and lawyers, lead workstreams, and provide technically strong, commercially focused legal advice.

Entry-level finance apprentice trained in treasury operations, cash reporting, bank documentation, partner-account accounting and reconciliations, partner profit and payout database maintenance, UK taxation processes, and policy preparation. The role requires close attention to detail, proactive learning, teamwork, autonomy under guidance, and a flexible, positive approach.

Represents issuers, underwriters, sponsors, and financial institutions in domestic and international debt and equity capital markets transactions. Responsibilities include managing transaction workstreams, coordinating diligence and disclosure, drafting and negotiating offering and securities documents, advising on SEC compliance and corporate governance, and collaborating with clients, investment banks, accountants, and opposing counsel.

Develop and deliver AI applications for legal technology solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. Lead NLP and NLU model performance improvements, develop generative AI solutions, design scalable architectures, and contribute to data science use cases. The role requires advanced Python, Azure AI and Azure OpenAI expertise, machine learning, deep learning, Databricks, Spark, CI/CD, DevOps, load testing, and strong software engineering and communication skills.

Designs, administers, optimizes, and provides advanced support for global Windows, VMware, Azure, identity, storage, backup, replication, and data protection infrastructure. Responsibilities include incident resolution, root-cause analysis, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, migrations, lifecycle management, Microsoft 365 administration, technical guidance, documentation, and on-call support.

One-time €10,000 scholarship for Belgian law graduates pursuing a full-time LL.M. abroad. Applicants must hold or be completing a Belgian Master’s degree in law, demonstrate English proficiency, academic excellence, leadership, community engagement, integrity, and admission or application to an eligible LL.M. program. The recipient receives financial support, mentoring, and networking opportunities with Clifford Chance lawyers.

Leads regional technology strategy, IT operations, AI adoption, digital transformation, and technology innovation across APAC and MET Markets. Oversees technology roadmaps, service delivery, information security collaboration, budgets, compliance, business continuity, and multiple-location IT teams. Acts as a strategic technology advisor to legal and business stakeholders while driving automation, analytics, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Clifford Chance is hosting one-to-one campus conversations in London with its Hong Kong Graduate Recruitment & Development Manager. Attendees can learn about careers, Asia opportunities, one-month internships, 2027 Summer Vacation Schemes, and 2029 Direct Training Contracts. Interested candidates must submit a CV and register by 8 November 2026. Registrations are limited and will be pre-screened on a rolling basis.

Supports Client and Market Development operations for global strategic clients by preparing Excel and PowerPoint reports, researching client news, organizing meetings, coordinating information across teams, and providing administrative and account management support to Client Development Coordinators.

Advise financial institutions, companies, sponsors, and investors on complex cross-border restructurings, insolvency matters, WHOA plans, rescue financings, liability management, security, enforcement, and distressed M&A. The role involves transaction structuring, negotiation, legal risk analysis, client advice, cross-office collaboration, and developing trusted relationships in the Dutch restructuring market.

Advise global clients on public and private M&A, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, restructurings, and complex cross-border transactions. Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents, manage due diligence, and coordinate matters across practice areas and jurisdictions. The role requires substantial Latin America M&A experience, New York law expertise, New York Bar admission, international law firm experience, and professional fluency in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.