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Supporting your career development 3 Our story 4 Why work with us? 5 Our commitment 6 Welcome to our world 8 Eversheds Sutherland in Asia 10 Broadening your horizons 12 What I love… 13 Leading the way 14 Diversity and inclusion 16 Our approach and networks 17 Konexo 20 Helping your career take off 22 Tell us the truth 24 What we’re looking for 28 How to apply 29 Join our award winning global practice 30 2 Next steps 31 Helping your career take off Global lawyers providing career opportunities in Asia

Supporting your career development

From the moment you come to us on a , we will support you in your development. Giving you the tools that you will need to become a fully-fledged trainee and hopefully progress through right until you become a partner. As a trainee of Eversheds Sutherland, you are given early exposure to real work for real clients. We will equip you with the skills to be a good while developing your commercial acumen and leadership potential. In short, the firm will invest in your talent and give you access to some of the best training, development and support in the industry - not just as a new graduate but throughout your career. Eversheds Sutherland is ranked as a global top 10 law practice, which is a recognition of our strengths in innovation, favorability among clients and continued sector focus. We are a people-focused organization and our global strategy is focused on both diversity and inclusion. We recognize that having diverse talents across our business brings many benefits and that a culture of inclusion, where each person feels able to be their true self at work and reach their full potential is key.

Dickson Ng, Graduate Recruitment Partner Partner, Corporate

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Our story

As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal advice and solutions to an international client base which includes some of the world’s largest multinationals.

Our teams of lawyers around the world operate seamlessly to deliver the legal know-how and strategic alignment that clients need from their advisors to help further their business interests. 74 Clients describe us as creative and well-versed in cutting edge legal work – we listen well in order offices to understand how and where we can be most effective and add the greatest value.

We shape our advice to the unique circumstances and challenges of each project, and ensure the right people are in the right places to offer insight and certainty – from 35 3,000+ the day-to-day to the most complex, multi- countries lawyers jurisdictional matters.

What unites us is our commitment to service excellence through a solution-oriented approach. We know our clients’ businesses, the industries and markets they operate in, and we know that great relationships yield the 750+ 5,000+ best outcomes. partners people

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Why work with us?

Clients Innovation Reputation Opportunity Geography Culture In 2020 we acted for Cited as a ‘Top 10 game- UK’s strongest law brand, Secondments, overseas 74 offices in 35 countries Supportive, inclusive 128 of the Fortune 200, changer’ by the FT Innovative Acritas UK Law Firm Brand placements and early worldwide and diverse 70 of the Fortune 100, Lawyers Report Index 2019 responsibility for you 39 of the Fortune 50

Practice Group Trainee Seat - Employment, Labor and Pensions - Litigation and Trainee Associate Apply for Dispute Management Training - Company Commercial Contract Assessment Day - Exercises Senior Summer - Interviews Vacation Partner Associate Courses Completed Scheme - Professional Skills Course - Practice Group Departmental Courses Principal Associate /

Program Of Counsel

Application Form Video Interview Training Contract

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Our commitment

As a purpose-led organization, we are proud of our culture and the values that guide our behavior. Our purpose: Helping our clients, our people and our communities to thrive.

Our values:

We leverage our collective We are innovative and creative We deliver quality and talents for the benefit of our problem-solvers, providing excellence and act with clients and each other and an enhanced client and the utmost integrity at we prize teamwork employee experience by not all times. and relationships. being bound by custom or convention.

We foster a diverse and inclusive We are approachable culture that places respect and and nurture a culture of support for everyone at its core transparency and openness. and empowers all our people to fulfill their potential. 6 Helping your career take off Global lawyers providing career opportunities in Asia

180 ranked lawyers and 143 ranked practices area in Legal 500 UK 2020 177 ranked practices across Legal 500 EMEA 2020 102 attorneys recognized among nation’s best in the 2020 edition of Legal 500 United States 102 ranked lawyers and 66 ranked practice areas in Europe 2020 15th ranking in the 2020 Acritas Global Law Firm Brand Index 6th ranking in Vault’s 2021 Best Law Firms for Diversity

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Welcome to our world

Our global coverage is further enhanced by: 200+ 40+ relationship countries in the firms worldwide Eversheds Sutherland Asia Pacific Alliance 30+ 17 countries in the countries in the Eversheds Sutherland Eversheds Sutherland Africa Alliance Latin America Alliance

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Eversheds Sutherland in Asia

Eversheds Sutherland is one of the leading international law firms in Asia. We take pride in our role as a positive market disruptor.

Indeed, over the past 20 years Eversheds Sutherland has Greater China driven much of that change, leading the move away from the traditional legal service model towards an approach that is aligned to what clients actually need. All of our clients receive a bespoke service – there is no ‘one size 23 70 fits all’ approach. Eversheds Sutherland understands that different clients require different approaches - solutions Partners Fee earners that are “fit for purpose”. With offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, Eversheds Sutherland is recognized as one of the leading ESAPA international full service law firms in Asia, where we work as a single completely integrated team. Our Asia team Members consists of 23 partners, more than 70 lawyers and over 80 staff and our unique Eversheds Sutherland Asia Pacific 30+ covering Alliance (ESAPA) provides full service coverage in over 45 Asia Pacific jurisdictions. APAC jurisdictions Our clientele includes states and state owned entities, 45+ consists of major multinational corporations, small and medium sized enterprises, international banks and financial institutions, private equity houses, family offices, professional services Lawyers companies and government and regulatory bodies. 2000+

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ESAPA coverage

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Jurisdictions American Samoa Maldives Samoa Australia Marshall Islands Singapore Bangladesh Micronesia (Federated State of) Solomon Islands Cambodia Mongolia South Korea China Myanmar Taiwan Cook Islands Nepal Thailand Fiji New Caledonia The Philippines French Polynesia New Zealand Timor-Leste Hong Kong SAR Niue Tokelue India Norfolk Island Tonga Indonesia Northern Mariana Islands Vanuata Japan Pakistan Vietnam Kiribati Palau Wallis and Futuna Laos Papua New Guinea Malaysia Pitcairn 11 Helping your career take off Global lawyers providing career opportunities in Asia

Broadening your horizons

Our main practice areas

Litigation and Dispute Company Employment, Labor and Banking and Management Commercial Pensions finance

Our culture We strongly believe that a Program Description positive working environment is key to engaging, CSR program including partnerships with WaterAid; Enabling Enterprise; motivating, and developing Unlocking Talent End Youth Homelessness and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust our people. Over the past twelve months we have LGBT+ network with 450 members which puts on and participates in an focused on embedding a Perspective enormous number of events including Pride and Pink Dot (Hong Kong) feedback and development culture, creating a workplace BAME Network Designed to support the achievement of our objectives and where everyone feels that around ethnicity and an inclusive culture they can be themselves Supports our female colleagues in considering and shaping the and that their individual Development Plus contributions are recognized. direction of their careers (Hong Kong) Our innovations include: Eversheds Helps students from state schools with good grades but no family Sutherland Unlocked history of going to university to pursue a career in law

A network that focuses on disability and wellbeing matters, regularly Ability rolling out initiatives across the business

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What I love…

The people at Eversheds Sutherland truly sets it apart from other law firms. Everyone I have met at the firm has been friendly and approachable, and they have welcomed me to the firm with open arms since day one. I especially love the firm’s open and collaborative working environment - my colleagues, from associates to partners alike, value my thoughts and opinions, and I am constantly encouraged to voice out. This has been instrumental to my personal development.

Katrina Shum, Trainee

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Leading the way

We’re known as being one of the world’s most innovative law practices – here’s a selection of our most recent pioneering work

Idea Drop Use of AI

A first of its kind in the legal sector, this web and mobile Teams across the business are utilizing innovations such as app allows staff at all levels and locations to collaborate Fastcase AI Sandbox and data extraction and contract review and share ideas. In the six months since launching AI tools like Kira to dramatically improve efficiency. towards the end of 2018, we’ve had contributions from We were the first law practice in the world to receive exclusive all of our worldwide offices and staff at different points of training from the CEO of Fastcase, which is allowing us to their career journey. The volume of quality ideas has develop revolutionary heatmap products for an emerging been so great (8,000 interactions in six months) that in market. In the US, Kira helped us accurately complete a 3,627- early 2019, we launched a Global Innovation team to help document review in eight days. It would previously have taken develop the suggestions and bring further innovation to a month. AI has also helped us save a major rail client an our global business. estimated £2m in a landmark deal in the UK.

Landmark Victory in Singapore Enginecccess for Rolls-Royce We advised longstanding client Rolls-Royce on the £500m Our work on the same-sex marriage adoption case, where sale of its commercial marine division to Kongsberg Gruppen a gay man wanted to adopt the son he’d fathered via a ASA. Progress on this complex separation was sped up by our surrogate, represented the first time that questions of deployment of a legal project manager to act as a single point surrogacy and gay adoption have been brought before the of client contact and use of our customized digital Singapore courts. It is also the first time a Singaporean collaboration platform DealMaster, which enabled real-time court has, by implication, effectively recognized a same- updates from nearly 400 users from over 30 countries around sex family unit. The verdict creates a precedent for matters the world across the lifecycle of the deal. concerning same sex couples wanting to start families within the LGBT community to be raised in court.

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Client Portals Konexo

Our multi-jurisdictional client portals are the first of their Konexo, a division of Eversheds Sutherland, is our global legal kind in the market. The portals allow clients to instruct and compliance alternative service provider. It offers a unique on-line review progress and collaborate with us through a mix of managed services, interim resource solutions and single platform, driving efficiency (and reducing costs) for consultancy services to in-house legal, compliance, HR and them and helping us retain and grow our biggest clients. corporate secretarial functions. Konexo employs a broad range The data collected through these centralized platforms of professionals including technology specialists, regulatory allows us to analyze our performance and streamline our consultants, project managers, data analysts and management business processes, ensuring our clients receive a high consultants as well as lawyers and paralegals. Innovative quality service at the right price. operational processes and cutting edge automation, including artificial intelligence and robotics, are used by the team across a growing global client base. Groundbreaking FCA case Cannabis Industry Business Model

Eversheds Sutherland worked on the FCA’s first Our Cannabis Industry team is built around a new “hub and investigation using its powers under the Competition Act spoke” business model that fosters collaboration on the 1998. Concluding in February 2019, the case is significant subject across more traditional practice group areas. The because it signals the FCA’s low tolerance for information team is an assembly of experienced attorneys from across our sharing between competitors, which impacts not only the practice groups and offices who serve the expanding and conduct of asset management firms but all firms within diverse needs of the cannabis industry. We are working with the financial services sector. The work of our team ensured two innovation partner organizations in our Eversheds that our client’s potential liability was significantly reduced Sutherland Artificial Intelligence Sandbox to develop a as part of this landmark case. 50-state compendium of hemp and marijuana , which will provide landscape data for clients to make more informed decisions. 15 Helping your career take off Global lawyers providing career opportunities in Asia

Diversity and inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, we recognise that having diverse talent across our business brings many benefits, and we are committed to accessing a wide range of views and thinking in all that we do.

A culture of inclusion, where each person feels able to be their We are focusing on every stage of our employee lifecycle to true self at work and reach their full potential is key. We ensure we attract, develop and retain diverse talent. We have recognise that bringing together the perspectives of individuals identified six diversity areas of focus: Gender, Ethnicity, Social of all backgrounds, life experiences, preferences and beliefs is Mobility, LGBT+, Wellbeing and Disability. critical if we are to serve our global client base, people and communities as a leading global legal practice.

As Diversity and Inclusion Partner Diversity and inclusion is a core part of Sponsor, I’m committed to advancing our strategy and how we ensure our all areas of our diversity and inclusion purpose and values are brought to life. strategy to ensure a working environment Building a culture which is inclusive of everyone, where everyone feels valued and is able to where everyone can bring their true selves realise their full potential. It’s important that to work and where everyone can thrive is as we continue our work in this area, evaluate crucial to me personally as it is to the business. our progress carefully and deliver against Like many law practices, we know we still have our objectives. Eversheds Sutherland has an work to do and I am proud to be leading our opportunity, as well as a responsibility, to lead drive to achieve this. change in this area. Lee Ranson, CEO Diane Gilhooley, Diversity and Inclusion Partner Sponsor

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Our approach and networks

Our diversity and inclusion strategy is supported by a range of employee led networks. These groups provide our people with a forum to voice their views, share their experiences, and engage with colleagues on a number of important topics.

Our networks build a sense of community to help address the business to join our diversity networks and support our common challenges and raise awareness, whilst also helping approach. As a new member of the Eversheds Sutherland to shape and inform our activities as part of our wider people team, the networks also provide a fantastic opportunity to strategy. We actively encourage people at all levels across meet a broad range of people across the business.

Wellbeing & Ability challenging perceptions; fostering an inclusive workplace culture for colleagues with disabilities; and continuing to Our Wellbeing and Ability Network provides employees and invest in building our disability confidence as a business in partners with information and resources to support wellbeing, a long-term and sustainable way. The carers strand is and aims to create an inclusive and supportive working focused on raising awareness and challenging environment for colleagues with disabilities and those with perceptions; flexible and agile working; and the impact of caring responsibilities. We know that living our values in the caring for people on carers in the workplace way we behave individually and collectively can make a big – the Wellbeing and Ability Network provides employees difference to our wellbeing as we work together to deliver our with an opportunity to support our activities, share their purpose of helping our clients, our people and our own experiences to help raise awareness and break down communities to thrive. real or perceived barriers, and to make suggestions on – our wellbeing strategy is focused on mental health, how we can support the wellbeing of our people physical health and supporting sustainable – we are certified as a Disability Confident Employer and a high performance member of the Business Disability Forum – our Ability strategy is focused on disability & carers. The disability strand is focused on raising awareness and

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Ethnicity LGBT+ Our Ethnicity Network, Verve, is open to everyone to join and Our LGBT+ and allies network, Perspective, aims to encourage aims to provide an inclusive network for all colleagues to all employees and partners to be their true selves at work by support the delivery of our goals to embed ethnic diversity and creating an inclusive workplace environment for all LGBT+ a culture of inclusion across our business. The network colleagues. Eversheds Sutherland has a zero tolerance provides an environment for colleagues of all ethnicities and approach to any form of discrimination, victimisation or their allies to come together to share experiences, raise harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity and/ awareness and build a better understanding of race and or gender expression. ethnicity in the workplace. – we are a Stonewall Diversity Champion and have appeared – our Verve network actively supports strategies aimed at in the Stonewall Top 100 Employers List featuring the recruiting, developing and retaining ethnically diverse most LGBT+ inclusive employers for over a decade talent by generating ideas, facilitating opportunities to – The Perspective network provides a support network to all make a positive difference, and acting as a two-way lesbian, gay, bi and transgender (LGBT+) colleagues at communication channel with the wider business Eversheds Sutherland, and empowers allies to support – the work of our Verve network also supports activity their LGBT+ colleagues and drive inclusion through aligned to our social mobility agenda and our faith in the education and awareness raising activity workplace forum – The Perspective network educates colleagues about – we are signatories of the Business in the Community Race LGBT+ issues relevant to working with colleagues and at Work Charter and are committed to improving the clients with an intersectional approach through awareness outcomes for ethnic minority employees raising campaigns, sharing experiences through blogs or – the network proactively supports our goals to increase our speakers at event, signposting resources, webinars or levels of ethnic diversity and achieve better representation formal training across our business – Perspective encourages all employees and partners at Eversheds Sutherland to be their true selves at work by sharing experiences and talking openly about issues affecting the LGBT+ community, building a unified, inclusive and supportive workplace culture

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Gender – we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women, one of the most high profile and well-established listing of employers Our Gender Network exists to champion gender equality leading the way on workplace gender equality. We have across our business, the legal sector and with our clients, and been included in this listing for over ten years and are aims to develop an environment where colleagues of all extremely committed to supporting gender diversity and genders can achieve their full potential, make fulfilling career achieving a better gender balance across our business choices and where gender or gender identity does not pose a barrier to success. – our external women’s network, CARRIE, was launched in 2007 as a tribute to Carrie Morrison, the first women to be – The Gender Network acts as a think-tank for gender admitted as a solicitor in the UK in 1922. It is run by diversity and provides a forum to discuss and drive our Eversheds Sutherland with the purpose of bringing clients approach to achieving our gender goals together to learn from each other, receive practical advice – colleagues and partners work together to create greater from prominent speakers and create useful contacts with visibility of and access to role models, sharing personal clients in other organisations insights and experiences in support of each other – local groups raise awareness of our commitment to gender equality which includes our goal to have a 30% female partnership by 2021

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Konexo is our new global alternative legal service provider (ALSP). Unique in terms of its scope in the market, Konexo allows our teams in Europe and Asia to offer advisory, interim resourcing with managed services which put intelligent analytics, innovative operational processes and cutting edge robotics and AI at the heart of everything we do.

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Eversheds Sutherland entrusts trainees with real responsibility and a broad range of client exposure opportunities. I have been fortunate to take on diverse listing projects and assist in advising MNCs, listed companies and established industry players on transformational transactions, dispute management and compliance initiatives, which have been critical to clients’ commercial success in these unprecedented times. The huge synergy generated from the firm’s global network means vast opportunities for you, as our future trainee, to grow as part of a champion team of talented lawyers in guiding clients through the complexities of regulatory landscapes across multiple jurisdictions. You will be powered by constructive and easily accessible feedback, ingenious IT solutions, and a suite of carefully designed development programs to meet the demands of your role in both legal and client-facing matters.

Woody Yim, Trainee Solicitor

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Helping your career take off

Our training contracts offer the perfect route into law. Over a two-year period, we’ll give you the knowledge, tools and opportunities to make a truly successful and rewarding legal career.

Training contracts The trainee program at Eversheds Sutherland is Your training will consist of four seats of well-structured and highly rewarding. We are given six months each. During each seat, you’ll the opportunity from the very beginning to work have a supervisor who will give you regular on cutting-edge deals under the close supervision and feedback. You will also receive formal guidance of senior lawyers. Apart from client work, trainees feedback through an appraisal system that also attend professional skills courses regularly to further takes place in the middle and at the end of aid us in developing our legal and client-facing skills. We each seat. are able to engage closely with law firms and clients across This system has been honed over a the world thanks to the firm’s extensive global network. number of years to ensure that you get the Our fully open office plan further fosters a collaborative most out of your time with us. Ultimately, environment, and everyone at Eversheds Sutherland from we want to help you become the next support staff to senior partners are happy to answer any leader in your field and hope that you’ll be part of the next generation to help drive us questions trainees may have. forward onto even greater heights. Catherine Wang, Trainee Solicitor

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Salary and benefits

Support network Salary Competitive Supervisor, Buddy, Trainee Partner

Benefits PCLL Life assurance, pension Tuition fees and scheme, private medical maintenance grants insurance

Our vacation scheme in Hong Kong In Hong Kong you will be paid during your period with us. Our vacation scheme gives you the opportunity to earn money while getting valuable hands-on experience We welcome applications from penultimate year law in one of our offices. Each vacation placement will under-graduates as well as candidates who’ve already encourage you to really get under the skin of life at graduated or taken different career paths. Eversheds Sutherland, providing a range of opportunities that typically include: Selected candidates will be shortlisted for a video interview. If you pass that interview you will be invited − assisting with research to an assessment center and if you are successful and − drafting documents do well on the vacation scheme, you may be offered a − spending time in a different team in each rotation training contract. − attending court − meeting partners, and trainees at social events − taking part in our office events − attending a range of informal talks to discover more about Eversheds Sutherland

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Tell us the truth

What’s it really like to be a trainee at Eversheds Sutherland?

From the start of my legal career, Eversheds Sutherland has displayed immense dedication in helping me develop into a competent legal practitioner. Here, trainees are often entrusted with prominent roles in complex and high-profile transactions. The firm’s extensive client network also provides trainees with exposure to a good spectrum of sophisticated legal experience. The work we do can be rewarding but also challenging at the same time. Fortunately at Eversheds Sutherland, we can always rely on the knowledge of our friendly colleagues to guide us through these challenges, which is just what we need in our early legal careers.

Clive Lam, Trainee Solicitor

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Clive Lam Trainee Solicitor, Hong Kong

What’s it really like to be a trainee at Eversheds Sutherland? What was the start of your training contract like? Being a trainee at Eversheds Sutherland is exciting. Trainees here The start of my training contract felt strange. On the one hand, there enjoy the opportunity to handle a wide variety of matters which was a sense of familiarity around the office as I have been with the firm can be very different from one another in terms of their nature and for quite some time already, on the other hand, I felt alienated as I was complexity. These may range from researching on the laws applicable assigned to a new team to work on tasks that were very different from to the latest financial product fresh out of the market to taking lead what I had been doing in the previous three years. With the hospitality and coordinating on a cross-jurisdictional transaction. As trainees, of my new team however, the uneasiness was quickly replaced we are constantly finding out how the legal concepts which we have with a sense of belonging. Sooner than expected, I found myself learned, or have not learned, from law school are applied in real communicating with the rest of my team as if we had been working life, the concerns that come into play as well as their impacts in the together for years. Although I was a junior member of the team, my wider commercial picture. We are always challenged to refresh our views were very well respected and my teammates and I were able to understanding of the law and the legal practice itself. Fortunately, discuss openly on various issues. My new team was also very patient if we ever get caught in bewilderment, we can always turn to our with me from the start and accommodated a lot of my queries, which senior colleagues who are friendly, patient and willing to take time in turn allowed me to understand more about the practice, the tasks out of their busy schedules to guide us through our problems. It is in that I was given, my role and crucially for myself, appreciate the such a challenging but supportive environment that we are allowed contributions that I was able to bring to the team. to explore the legal industry and equip ourselves with the requisite Can you describe the culture at Eversheds Sutherland? skills for a successful legal practitioner. Beyond work, an Eversheds The culture at Eversheds Sutherland is described by different words Sutherland trainee’s life is very vivid. The firm organizes a spectrum of which are referred to as our values, namely, “collaborative”, “inclusive”, activities, ranging from the annual Christmas party to Movember events “professional”, “creative” and “open”. These are very accurate in support of the global campaign to promote men’s health. There is descriptions of our culture. However, I believe that sitting at the always a lot going on, to keep us busy, and the office lively. heart of all these features is the fact that we are a people-oriented What was your path to a training contract? organization. Eversheds Sutherland recognizes very well that it is a firm The start of my journey with the firm dates back up to three years made up of its people, and interacting with the people around it, be it before the commencement of my training, and it began with an our clients, or the community in which it is located. At work, our firm interview for the position of a paralegal. I later joined the firm’s is constantly seeking to offer efficient and innovative solutions for our corporate team, focusing primarily on initial public offerings and other clients, engaging, for example, various technological products in our related corporate work. As I proceeded with my career as a paralegal, services to drive efficiency for our clients’ business endeavors. When I got to know more about the firm, its people and culture, I became it comes to training its junior practitioner, the firm shows a dedication more and more certain that this is where I would like to commence my in helping us trainees develop our legal skill set evident not least in training as a lawyer. I subsequently applied for a training contract with the firm’s regular feedback system where trainees have the chance Eversheds Sutherland and was able to land one with my current batch. to receive compassionately honest advice from senior colleagues for improvement. Aside of work, our firm is committed to giving back to the community through various charitable activities. Eversheds Sutherland stands out to me as a firm that is genuinely devoted to realizing its purpose, “helping its clients, its people and its communities to thrive”.

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Eversheds Sutherland genuinely cares about our career developments and invests in nurturing each of us. With the firm’s all-round expertise, we work with reputable clients in leading cases in diverse practice areas. With the seamless collaboration across our global offices, we provide practical tailor-made advice to our clients as a leading full-service firm. Along with our feedback culture which supports our constant improvement, I can say for sure that Eversheds Sutherland is the ideal place to launch my career – with high quality professional training, bespoke guidance and abundant resources for each of us to explore our true legal passion and support the development of our legal careers.

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Justina Choi Trainee Solicitor, Hong Kong

What’s it really like to be a trainee at Eversheds Sutherland? What was the start of your training contract like? As trainees at Eversheds Sutherland, we are given exciting In the beginning, the learning curve was quite a steep one – we need opportunities to work with prestigious clients in high-profile cases to go beyond “pure black letter” legal advice as we often did in law and cutting edge deals through rotating along highly diverse practice schools, and to provide innovative solutions that truly suit or even areas. We collaborate frequently across departments and with predict the clients’ needs. It can be challenging when it comes to colleagues from offices around the globe in multi-jurisdictional unfamiliar tasks with time pressure in a real-life setting, which you transactions, which have truly broadened our global horizons and understand will have a real implication on the clients. However, I allowed us to maximize our international exposure. While work can do find the process of learning new things every day (e.g. complex at times be challenging, thanks to the unfailing support and guidance legal concepts and applications, excellent client service and industry from our supervisors and colleagues, the journey is truly rewarding awareness etc) very motivating and I am really fascinated by that. and enjoyable. Together with the clear and practical guidance from our supervisors Outside of work, we also have numerous chances to participate and colleagues, the transition from law students to trainees has in various meaningful social and pro bono activities, such as the become a lot smoother than it otherwise would have been. Looking Global Running Day where we have raised funds for WaterAid, and back, I am grateful to see my progress and truly thankful for the faith networking events such as the French Chamber Hong Kong’s GBA that my supervisors and colleagues have in me and the tremendous Series – all of which have extended our external connections and support that they have given me along this journey. strengthened our internal bonding while making a social impact. Can you describe the culture at Eversheds Sutherland? What was your path to a training contract? Collaborative, creative and open. My journey at Eversheds Sutherland started with the three-week Eversheds Sutherland is a truly global firm that values collaboration summer vacation scheme in 2018, where I was rotated to three and teamwork – our colleagues with diverse backgrounds across departments – Corporate, Banking and Finance, and Litigation and offices and departments work closely together on a daily basis to Dispute Management. We were also given the opportunity to present provide “one-stop shop” service to our international clients. to the entire firm on a legal topic of our own choice, and were given meaningful feedback from our supervisors and the partners. Indeed, our firm values creativity and has been investing a lot in innovating our business models and client service, striving to provide Apart from work, we also participated in various firm activities such as the best solutions to address clients’ concerns – we are ready to office drinks session and virtual golf session. I am truly grateful for the utilize innovations and digital collaboration platforms in various vacation scheme which has brought me here as a part of Eversheds projects to provide the best experience to our clients. Sutherland. I feel blessed to work in this non-hierarchical environment, where partners are receptive to suggestions and often invite conversations and open discussions. One thing that I really love is our feedback culture – this allows us to evaluate our performance with honest and constructive feedback, and has facilitated our personal growth and professional development as aspiring lawyers.

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What we’re looking for

Our aim, through the recruitment process, is to identify whether you have the potential to be a great trainee solicitor at Eversheds Sutherland.

That’s why we’re interested in more than your qualifications, skills and knowledge. These elements are important but it is your strengths that will really make the difference - those aspects of your work that really engage you, that you really enjoy and that energize you.

Research shows that you perform better when your work overlaps with what you enjoy as well as what you can do. For a business, ensuring employees are playing to their strengths improves employee engagement, customer satisfaction and loyalty.

We have adopted a strengths-based solution at each stage of the recruitment process. At every step, we are keen to hear about what energizes and motivates you as well as what you can do.

As a trainee solicitor you will have a large and often complex workload with regular contact with partners and clients. The work can be challenging as you apply your legal knowledge in a real-world context. It is important for us to know not only whether you can do the job but you will enjoy the work too.

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How to apply

If you are interested in applying for our summer vacation scheme and training contract, we welcome applicants that have a minimum of a 3.3 GPA, the equivalent of a 2:1 degree, or are on track to achieving a 2:1.

Please apply for the training contract via our summer vacation scheme, which consists of three stages:

1. Online application form – 2. Pre-recorded video interview – 3. Assessment center – half-day featuring some open ended you will respond to some short assessment at our office. You will questions. questions and explain why you are be interviewed by a panel and the best candidate for the role. You complete a written exercise. can take this 15 minute interview anywhere and at any time.

If you successfully complete all three stages, we may consider you a place on the summer vacation scheme and subsequently a training contract.

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Join our award winning global law practice

Highlights of our 2021 awards and accolades in Asia:

Winner - Projects and Capital Markets: Equity, Antitrust & Competition, Banking and Finance, Project Financing Competition/Antitrust, Capital Markets (equity), Corporate M&A, Honorable mention - Banking Corporate M&A, Dispute Dispute Resolution (Litigation), Labor and & Finance, Most Responsive Resolution: Litigation, Employment, Restructuring and Insolvency, International Firm Restructuring/Insolvency Structured Finance and Securitization In-House Community’s Chambers and Partners Legal 500 Firm of the Year (2021) Asia Pacific (2021) Asia Pacific (2021)

Capital markets : Structured Insolvency – Competition & Antitrust, finance and securitization, International firm (Tier 4) International Trade Restructuring and insolvency Benchmark Litigation China Business Law IFLR 1000 (2021) Asia-Pacific (2021) Awards (2021)

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