2017 HK Law Fair - e-Brochure

What experience will I get?

You will be able to work in a number of these contentious/non-contentious areas:

• Financial Services / Regulatory • Insurance and reinsurance • International trade • Marine • Professional Indemnity

• Capital Markets • Construction • Corporate / M&A • Dispute resolution and international arbitration • Employment • Energy and projects

Where possible, we will try to accommodate your individual preferences, although these will of course need to be considered in the light of the overall requirements of the firm. You may not have covered a particular field during your studies but that does not matter. We make no assumptions about your prior knowledge and give full training in each area. There are also opportunities for secondment to our Shanghai, Dubai, UK and other offices.

Training at Clyde & Co has been an exciting journey, full of diversity – from the offices I’ve worked in to the types of cases I’ve handled. As a trainee I worked in three different offices, in Guildford, London, and Hong Kong, each bringing different challenges and opportunities. I gained valuable experience working in our market leading Marine department, where from the outset I was heavily engaged with an international arbitration, in a dispute worth over US$100M. The international scope of the work at Clyde & Co was evident from the beginning; and as a trainee it was a great experience to be involved in a dispute between international parties over an offshore project in Cameroon. I spent time working in the property litigation team gaining first-hand experience of the contractual negotiations between commercial landlords and tenants, and I was surrounded and supported by lawyers with very clear understanding of the nature of the relationships between the parties, of the market that they were trading in, and of the commercial pressures upon the parties. This comprehensive commercial awareness of the lawyers at Clyde & Co is a stand out feature of the firm’s lawyers and is really imbedded into the culture of the firm – in order that we can see beyond the law, allowing our services to be tailored to each client according to their needs.

Having worked as a paralegal in construction, I was interested in this area and joined the global Projects and Construction team, which I also qualified into. As a trainee in London I focussed mainly on ‘front-end’ or transactional construction work, such as the drafting of building contracts, or preparing the finance documents for multi-million pound projects. Then I transferred out to Hong Kong to gain further experience in the construction team, with a focus on disputes. As I flew from London to Hong Kong, a Hong Kong trainee was making that journey in reverse – a great benefit of the firm’s international practice is that as part of our training we can gain international experience. Indeed – I came to Hong Kong on a six month secondment, and then successfully applied to qualify out here. As a newly qualified construction lawyer I have significant responsibility as a case handler. My work covers both ‘front- end’ and ‘back-end’ matters, i.e. both transactional work and disputes, and my responsibilities see me liaise on a daily basis with clients, experts, and counsel. As a junior lawyer I feel that this type of responsibility and exposure is a fantastic opportunity for both personal and professional development.

Sholto Hanvey Registered Foreign Lawyer

8

Made with FlippingBook - Online Brochure Maker