Jobs at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Supports enterprise risk management, governance, compliance, insurance, claims, and regulatory activities for a global law firm. Responsibilities include risk assessments, monitoring mitigation actions and indicators, researching emerging risks, maintaining policies and records, assisting with claims and insurance renewals, preparing reports and dashboards, and coordinating with stakeholders across Legal, Finance, HR, Information Security, and other business functions.

Provide specialist corporate tax advice across M&A, finance and restructuring, real estate and tax disputes, often on multi-jurisdictional matters. Work includes client advisory, contentious tax representation, collaborating with international offices, potential client secondments, and contributing to business development and knowledge management.

Leads full-cycle recruitment for senior and specialist technology roles across multiple geographies. Partners with technology leaders and hiring managers to define requirements, develop sourcing strategies, assess candidates, build passive talent pipelines, and provide market intelligence on compensation and availability. Manages concurrent searches, maintains applicant tracking system data, reports on recruiting KPIs, and serves as a trusted adviser while ensuring a strong, inclusive candidate and stakeholder experience.

Works on complex cross-border private equity and corporate transactions, including M&A, carve-outs, buy-outs, joint ventures, consortium deals, structured investments, and reorganizations. Advises financial sponsor clients across multiple sectors, supports business development, supervises junior lawyers, manages challenging workloads, and contributes to knowledge management and client service.

Lead planning and delivery of AI-enabled legal solutions and technology initiatives. Coordinate lawyers, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders; manage scope, milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies, testing, rollouts, governance, and adoption. Facilitate requirements gathering and stakeholder communications while ensuring alignment with security, compliance, privacy, information governance, and responsible AI standards. Drive continuous improvements in project delivery and change management across multiple global workstreams.

Design and develop responsive, accessible user interfaces for digital platforms. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders; conduct user research; implement production-ready frontend code using HTML, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript; and maintain reusable components, style guides, and design systems. Support server-rendered applications, testing, accessibility validation, cross-browser debugging, version control, code reviews, CI/CD, and consistent interaction patterns across multiple applications.

Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable AI and cloud infrastructure on Azure. Manage AKS, containers, Terraform environments, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, observability, security, and automated operations. Support production LLM, data, API, and event-driven workloads, troubleshoot incidents, improve reliability, and collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to deliver AI solutions.

Designs and prototypes AI-enabled legal technology solutions, translating legal workflows into secure, governed architectures. Partners with lawyers, stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to define requirements and guide delivery. Builds production Python services and document workflows using LLMs, retrieval, RAG, agents, and cloud technologies. Leads discovery workshops, user testing, technology evaluations, and continuous improvement while ensuring privacy, security, compliance, and responsible AI standards.

Leads strategic external communications and media relations for Freshfields’ practices, strengthening reputation, partner visibility, and market influence. Develops communications strategies, builds journalist relationships, manages media engagement, creates thought leadership content, advises senior stakeholders, coaches spokespeople, monitors market developments, and measures communications performance. The role requires strong knowledge of financial markets, M&A, private capital, capital markets, and professional services communications, along with exceptional writing, storytelling, judgment, and stakeholder management skills.

Handle complex UK and international antitrust litigation, including cartel damages, abuse of dominance, collective proceedings, investigations, and regulatory disputes. Responsibilities include drafting pleadings, witness statements, expert reports, and settlement documents; managing disclosure and case processes; working with barristers, economists, clients, and experts; attending settlement discussions; mentoring junior lawyers; and contributing to business development, training, and knowledge management.

Litigation Associate handling complex consumer, ESG, product liability, technology, and life sciences disputes. Responsibilities include drafting pleadings, witness statements, expert reports, correspondence, and settlement agreements; managing disclosure and case processes; supporting regulatory engagements; attending mediations; supervising junior lawyers; and contributing to business development, training, and client relationships.

Corporate law Associate advising clients on corporate, M&A, finance, equity and debt capital markets matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, managing transactions and legal due diligence, maintaining client relationships, supporting business development, and training junior lawyers. The role involves complex, cross-border transactions and collaboration with international legal teams.

Leads the Asia Business Acceptance team and advises on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, and risk matters, including conflicts, confidentiality, client due diligence, AML, sanctions, reputational risk, and engagement terms. Provides governance, policy, training, and regulatory guidance; manages escalations; develops the regional team; and supports strategic initiatives involving process improvement, automation, data, and responsible AI.

Advises Asia-based teams on business acceptance, conflicts, confidentiality, client due diligence, AML, sanctions, reputational, legal, regulatory, and commercial risks. Provides governance support, policy guidance, training, and escalation management for complex issues. Mentors colleagues, promotes best practices, and contributes to process improvement, automation, technology, and AI-enabled legal operations initiatives.

Provides legal and compliance advice on business acceptance, conflicts, confidentiality, sanctions, AML, reputational risk, ethics, regulatory matters, and client engagement terms. Conducts client and matter due diligence, reviews lateral hires and agreements, supports risk training, maintains information barriers and records, and helps develop global business acceptance processes. Advises partners and staff on US regulations and firm policies while collaborating across international teams.

Supports the Asia Dispute Resolution practice through proposals, pitches, RFPs, campaigns, events, directory submissions, awards, and client-focused business development strategies. Builds relationships with senior stakeholders, identifies opportunities, manages practice content, analyzes trends using AI tools and Salesforce, and measures impact. The role also includes line management of a Senior Business Development Executive and coordination across global Marketing and Business Development teams.

Advise on complex, cross-border leveraged finance transactions, especially acquisition financing for private equity and financial sponsor clients. Draft and negotiate facilities, intercreditor, and security documents; coordinate international teams; supervise junior lawyers; manage demanding workloads; and support business development and knowledge management.

The job description is listed as TBC, so responsibilities cannot be determined. Based on the title, the role likely provides legal or advisory support related to business acceptance activities.

Develop and deliver change, adoption, engagement, communications, and training plans for global operations platforms and transformation initiatives. Partner with product, CRM, IT, and delivery teams to embed change, measure adoption, manage feedback, support change champions, and provide stakeholders with insights on readiness, risks, and business impact.

Advises and represents international clients in commercial and investment arbitration. Responsibilities include factual and legal research, drafting memoranda, analyses, and legal briefs, supporting oral hearings and client meetings in Austria and abroad, and contributing to business development. The role requires excellent legal academics, fluency in English and German, international adaptability, and creative problem-solving. Prior law-firm experience, arbitration exposure, Austrian court internship, or lawyer qualification are preferred assets.