International Opportunities
Ciara Ros Senior Associate Complex Commercial Litigation
Louise Fischel-Bock Associate Energy Transactions / Projects
During my nine-year career at V&E, I have been lucky enough to work from a number of our offices - the international opportunities here are one of my favourite things about working at the firm. I collaborate across our global offices every day, as do most of our London attorneys, but as a trainee, I was offered the chance to spend six months in Houston. I spent three months in Finance and three months in Energy Transactions and Projects (ETP) and was able to develop relationships with other attorneys that I still work with today. Having this opportunity at an early stage in my career was fantastic for developing my network and my exposure to different work (and working styles). It also really gave me a taste for the size of V&E and even more of a taste of our “Texan” culture – something I am working to replicate in London. I will always love the sight of our attorneys wearing cowboy boots to the office. Though I have been in our London office since 2018, I qualified into our Dubai office and had the opportunity to spend three years there working in ETP, M&A/Capital Markets and Complex Commercial Litigation. It was amazing to be given such a broad spectrum of work, before ultimately specialising in arbitration, and to have another opportunity to work with different lawyers. V&E is incredibly encouraging of international opportunities and the welcoming atmosphere in every office I have visited makes travelling to, and working from, other offices a fantastic experience for our attorneys.
During my training contract, I had the opportunity spend one of my seats on secondment in the Houston office. This gave me a really great insight into the global size and influence of V&E outside of the London office. Most importantly, though, I met members of the Houston ETP team that I still work with today. During my time in Houston I assisted with the signing and closing of the project development for the construction of a new blue ammonia project in Texas. To this day, I continue to work on that project as our client navigates the construction process. That’s one of the great things about V&E — we work in small, specialised teams that, even if they are spread across different offices, work very closely together, giving you, even as a trainee, a great deal of responsibility and the opportunity to see transactions and projects through to the end. One of the things I enjoy most is that on any given day, I will be working on projects that span anywhere from Africa to Turkey to the U.S. One of my key tasks as a trainee, involved liaising with local counsel in the different jurisdictions that we worked – which certainly kept things interesting! As a trainee, I had the chance to travel to client meetings in Amsterdam, Rome and Turkey, because even as a trainee, you are treated as an integral part of the team and given opportunities to work directly with clients.
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