Allen & Overy

23 Partners in Australia / 550 Partners in our global network 2800 lawyers in our global network 5500 employees working across our global network

It depends on our business needs. Last year we had 10 summer clerks in Sydney.

Our summer clerk program is a feeder program into the graduate program. We can successfully say we have offered each of our summer clerks a graduate position to-date.

Each day, we challenge ourselves to bring original thinking to society’s biggest challenges. We recognise that every one of our people can make a significant contribution and that when we work together, we have the power to change lives. We rise to the challenge of looking at ways in how we can improve our environmental performance and empower our people to make a positive impact. We have worked on landmark cases to support people facing human rights violations in conflict-affected areas and soon we’ll reach our goal to raise £1 million for our global charity partner, Hope and Homes, to help end institutionalised care for children around the world. We recognise that there is always more to do and we are determined to do just that.

The overall health and wellbeing of our people is essential and we work hard to ensure our junior lawyers achieve a balanced working life. We ensure that our lawyers feel supported through their careers mentally and emotionally as well as supporting their physical health. Our support includes: • Agile and flexible work arrangements for staff through our iFlex policy • Paid transaction breaks between periods of high busyness • Establishing a reverse mentoring program, enabling the voice of more junior staff to be heard at partner level • 24/7 access to our employee assistance program • Appointing value partners throughout the firm to ensure the firms values are upheld • Promoting mental wellness, through our “Mind Matters” program, offering various resilience skills workshops, promoting initiatives such as “R U OK?” , “Heart on My Sleeve” and MOvember. Subsides gym memberships, internal sporting teams, on-site flu vacations, skin checks and massages, health and well-being newsletters, mindfulness memberships, and healthy snacks are available

2 rotations over a 10 week period Insight into Asia experience – every clerk has the opportunity to spend 1 week in one of our Asia Pacific offices during the clerkship Hands on experience working alongside practising lawyers Real, interesting and challenging work where you will shadow lawyers daily and contribute with tasks where appropriate A lot of fun and exciting social activities organised with your cohort, graduates and others in your team Opportunity to participation in our White Chapel volunteering day and ABCN program Social sport alongside other summer clerks at different law firms

We encourage our staff to let us know if they would like to go on secondment, whether to an external client or internally to another office in the network. Our summer clerks have the opportunity to take part in a 1 week Insight into Asia experience where they venture to one of Asia Pacific offices to learn about the other office and build upon their network.

We work to attract, develop and keep the very best people. All kinds of people work at Allen & Overy, with a few things in common. We are united by ambition and drive, and by the restless pursuit of excellence in everything we do. We foster a working environment based on collaboration and mutual respect, where everyone is trusted to do their very best work. We are committed to ensuring that A&O is a place where diverse group of people can be themselves and bring the best of themselves to their career. We are proud of our initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion within the firm, the legal profession and the community. We encourage everyone at the firm to pursue their interests, and passions to complement their skills and ambitions.

The Summer Clerkship at Allen & Overy was an amazing experience. During the ten weeks we spent at the firm, we were fortunate enough to complete two rotations, host a competitive drawing fundraiser, and travel to Bangkok, Singapore and Beijing, all whilst successfully winning the wooden spoon in the clerk sports competition (which was no small feat!).

One of the reasons many of us chose A&O was our desire to travel and work with people from all over the world. From our very first week, we were working on matters alongside colleagues from across the vast A&O network, including from the London, Hong Kong and Tokyo offices, for a diverse range of multinational clients. Every clerk also spent a week in one of A&O’s APAC offices, getting a taste of working overseas. The clerks who went to Bangkok drafted a piece on the renewables sector in Thailand, which involved looking at major projects in wind, solar and hydro-electricity, and those in Singapore worked on cross-border transactions across Indonesia and Malaysia. In addition, the Insight into Asia Experience was a chance to explore a new city. Those of us stationed in Shanghai and Beijing took a considerable amount of time to sample a wide range of dumplings and noodles, while the group in Singapore conducted a thorough investigation of the city’s hidden cocktail bars.

A&O’s relatively small team in Australia meant that we never felt like just a cog in the machine. Every person was a valuable part of their team, and the senior lawyers took the time and effort to get to know us. Often we found that it would just be a clerk, an associate and a partner on a task. This level of exposure to real work was daunting at the start, but the on-the-job training was a fantastic way to develop our skills as commercial lawyers. The responsibility came quickly but when the going did get tough, everyone (from fellow clerks through to the partners) would pitch in to make sure the job got done. As with any job, not every moment of our clerkship was

glamorous and fun. However, each time we were faced with less exciting work, the team patiently explained our role in the context of the wider matter, allowing us to gain a better understanding of how a complex transaction or piece of litigation runs from start to finish.

In addition to this, we had the opportunity to engage in pro bono legal work, such as research for a matter in Kenya run out of the London office. Some of us also had the opportunity to volunteer for a day at the Wayside Chapel, where we worked with A&O lawyers to cook a delicious meal for people experiencing homelessness. The highlight of our clerkship was undoubtedly getting to know our fellow clerks. On any given morning, you could find us chain-eating raisin toast in the kitchen and by the end of the ten weeks, we were embarrassingly inseparable, snuggling up under a blanket with wine in hand at the Moonlight Cinema.

All together, we had an unforgettable summer, learnt invaluable new skills, and made some exceptional friends, and we are so excited to start as grads together.

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During your ten week placement at Allen & Overy, you will participate in real transactions from beginning to end as well as specifically designed exercises that provide a valuable insight into the role of an Allen & Overy lawyer. Bespoke training is provided by some of our leading lawyers in Australia including access to international training sessions too.

In addition to gaining experience in two of our practice areas in the Sydney office, our previous summer clerks have been able to spend time in one of our Asia Pacific offices during the program. This experience will give you a greater understanding of our global network and a taste of future opportunities at Allen & Overy.

As your career progresses with Allen & Overy, you will be given a range of choices to develop your experiences, such as taking up the opportunity to spend time working in another office, whether that’s a rotation as a junior lawyer, a longer term secondment or a permanent transfer.

From the moment you join the firm, you’ll be involved in helping our clients to protect and grow their assets. You will get involved in cross-border deals including inbound investment by international clients and outbound investment by Australian clients; international disputes and

regulatory reviews; project financing for projects both in Australia and around the world; and international bond programs. Clients increasingly expect global service providers and Allen & Overy is currently one of the only firms in Australia able to provide a fully integrated domestic, regional and global offering. Our four core practice groups provide a full suite of corporate, finance (debt and equity), international capital markets and litigation services. Within these Groups, the practice areas are diverse, including Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Projects, Structured Products, International and Capital Markets, Funds, Asset Finance, Competition, Tax, Litigation and International Arbitration.

Our shared culture and the values inspire the way we work and behave: instinctively thoughtful, collectively ambitious, insightfully inventive and refreshingly open. There is no typical Allen & Overy lawyer. We realise each person has their unique skills and qualities. In addition to excellent academic results, we seek penultimate year students who are team players, show resilience, are good communicators, have strength in planning and organisation, are adept at problem solving and have general commercial awareness with an overall ambition to build a career at Allen & Overy.

Join an elite group of Summer Clerks at Allen & Overy in 2020/21.

We accept applications from overseas students, however applicants must demonstrate a commitment to starting their legal career in Australia and have the right to live and work in Australia. We invest in hand-selecting our Summer Clerks each year and were pleased to offer graduate positions to all of our Sydney Summer Clerks to-date.

Applications for the Sydney program open on Tuesday 9 June 2020 and close on Sunday 12 July 2020.

To apply for our Summer Clerkship program in 2020/21, please visit our website allenovery.com/careers The website also contains details of our Clerkship program in Perth.