Dechert LLP Training Contracts & Work Placements

Deadlines

17 Oct 2025

Training programme to commence 2026 (first closing) Deadline passed

31 Dec 2025

Training programme to commence 2026 (second closing) Deadline passed

17 Oct 2025

Winter work placement Deadline passed

31 Dec 2025

Summer work placement Deadline passed

31 Dec 2025

Spring work placement Deadline passed

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Corporate & Commercial

Practice Areas

Banking & finance

Banking and finance involves many financial products, from bank loans to companies to highly structured financing arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.

Capital markets

Capital markets lawyers work with transactions involving the issue of debt or equity securities to the public or investors.

Commercial property/real estate

<p>Commercial property lawyers work on a wide range of transactions including offices, retail developments and infrastructure projects.</p>

Company & commercial

Commercial lawyers operate at the nexus where law meets business, facilitating revenue growth and managing risk.

Competition & EU law

Competition and regulatory work includes merger control, regulatory and court proceedings, issues arising from sector-specific regulation and utility procurement issues.

Corporate finance/mergers & acquisitions

Corporate M&A involves the combining of companies or assets through mergers, where two companies combine to form a new entity, or acquisitions, where one company takes over another.

Corporate tax

Virtually all commercial transactions have tax implications. Tax is thus an important practice area for any major law firm.

Commercial litigators represent and advise commercial clients when disputes arise from joint venture projects, civil fraud, commercial and banking transactions, corporate governance, financial services regulation and professional negligence.

Employment, pensions & incentives

Employment lawyers work across all areas of employment law, including handling discrimination complaints, staff restructuring and whistleblowing issues.

Financial services

Following the UK’s exit from the European Union, the covid-19 pandemic and various financial scandals, there is always lots going on in this area.

Funds

Funds lawyers advise on the lifespan of funds and their managers, from structuring and formation to investment and close.

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is an umbrella term for a variety of different rights which protect intellectual creations, such as inventions, brands, designs, and literary and artistic works.

Private Equity

Private equity lawyers specialise in providing legal advice and assistance to private equity firms and their clients.

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Learn more about Dechert LLP

25 Cannon Street, London, EC4M 5UB
Phone: 020 7184 7000
Email: [email protected]

Work placement:	Yes
Number of vacation scheme places:	30
Minimum qualification:	2.1 degree
First-year trainee salary:	£55,000
Second-year trainee salary:	£61,000
NQ salary:	£165,000
Fees paid for:	PGDL/GDL LPC SQE

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London

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London

Dechert LLP

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Practice Areas

Banking & finance

Capital markets

Commercial property/real estate

Company & commercial

Competition & EU law

Corporate finance/mergers & acquisitions

Corporate tax

Dispute resolution

Employment, pensions & incentives

Financial services

Funds

Intellectual property

Private Equity

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