Travers Smith LLP

The firm: It is not just law at Travers Smith. We treat our clients’ business as our business, their dispute as our dispute, their challenges as ours.

Our clients know that wherever in the world they or their ambitions lie, we will work as one of their team to help them achieve their goals. With our offices in London and Paris, and through a carefully cultivated network based on relationships with independent law firms from all over the world, we are able to provide a first-class, seamless service to clients around the globe.

We regularly conduct cutting-edge and industry-first work for clients across industry sectors and have carved a market-leading reputation for our expertise in international asset management, cross-border M&A and global dispute resolution and investigations.

Our clients include publicly listed and private companies, financial institutions and private equity firms, and other business enterprises involved in large and complex UK and cross-border matters, transactions and disputes. They come to us not only because of our expertise, but also the way we conduct our business and collaborate with one another.

Our practice area teams specialising in commercial, IP and technology, competition, corporate finance and M&A, dispute resolution, derivatives and structured products, employment, environment and operational risk, infrastructure, finance and restructuring, financial services and markets, funds, incentives and remuneration, pensions, private equity and financial sponsors, real estate, regulatory investigations and tax regularly work together as one cohesive team on matters and deals.

Our success is rooted in the excellence of our people, our clients and our commitment to using our influence and knowledge to do good in the society. This is our difference and we are proud of it.

International: For its international and cross-border work, Travers Smith has focused on building carefully cultivated relationships with independent law firms all over the world, sharing quality standards and strengths. This enables the firm to provide a first-class, seamless service for clients around the globe. The firm has chosen this route because it gives it the ability to pick the best firm for every piece of work, providing a one-firm approach wherever the firm’s clients conduct their business. Travers Smith regularly coordinates the provision of overseas advice for particular matters, as well as recommends law firms for its clients to instruct directly. What distinguishes Travers Smith’s model is the investment the firm makes into developing its relationships with the best independent law firms in the world.

Recruitment: Travers Smith is always looking to recruit people from all backgrounds, with academic excellence and sound judgement who take their careers, but not themselves, seriously. The firm’s training philosophy is that skill and expertise are best acquired through practical experience, complemented by carefully targeted formal instruction. Great emphasis is placed on continuous learning and development towards personal and professional growth.