The London office of Haynes Boone has experience serving the corporate, debt capital markets, energy, finance, insolvency, international dispute resolution, investment management, project finance and development, real estate and shipping sectors. The firm boasts a team of commercial and dispute resolution lawyers with deep industry knowledge in their core sectors. Many of our lawyers have international backgrounds; our lawyers are fluent in 17 languages.

With decades of experience, our lawyers provide clients with broad English law capabilities. These include an experienced litigation and international arbitration team that has handled numerous claims in the English High Court and before major arbitral bodies and transactional teams that have guided clients through such diverse matters as mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, financing, conventional and alternative energy projects, and maritime and offshore operations and projects. Our London office links clients operating in the world’s interconnected energy and finance markets.

Haynes Boone is a full service international commercial law firm with more than 700 lawyers in 20 offices around the world, providing services for more than 40 major legal practices. We are among the largest firms based in the United States. Our growth has been driven by our client service strengths, especially our problem-solving acumen and our ability to collaborate with clients.

We have a client-first philosophy, defining success as providing exceptional value to our clients and making real, tangible, and often remarkable contributions to their businesses. 

We are dedicated to continuing the heritage of excellence in the legal profession. We will stay focused on the long-term success of our clients, and we remain bound by our teamwork culture.

Haynes Boone will recruit and develop trainee solicitors with the aim of retaining them on qualification.

Our NQLs spend one week in Haynes Boone's head office in Dallas attending presentations and getting to know their US colleagues.

We will provide 8 spaces for the summer vacation scheme from 1 – 26 June 2026. During the four weeks, each candidate will sit in two practice group seats.

Candidates who are selected for the vacation scheme may be required to undergo further interviews and assessments during the course of the scheme.

Our 2028 trainees will be chosen from the summer vacation scheme.

We will provide three permanent full-time contracts to commence September 2028.

Each contract will comprise four seats of six months' duration each. Trainees in those seats will work with different teams across the range of the firm's practice areas within the relevant group during each seat. Practical training will be given with plenty of support and feedback. You will be closely supervised and mentored by a partner mentor in each seat. The firm offers a competitive salary. First-year remuneration is £50,000 increasing to £55,000 in the second year. 

Our London office is structured into the following practice groups: corporate, debt capital markets, energy, finance, insolvency, international dispute resolution, investment management, project finance and development, real estate and shipping.

Haynes Boone has introduced the SQE route to qualification. This route will require the successful trainees joining us to have studied for and passed the SQE before commencing their two years' full-time qualifying work experience with us. The firm has exclusively partnered with The University of Law for SQE preparation.  

All successful candidates are expected to study the SQE in London (unless special circumstances apply which will be at the firm's discretion).

Applications from an LPC study route will also be given consideration.

Excellence in diversity and inclusion is a Haynes Boone core value. We recruit the best and the brightest and seek to attract, retain and promote individuals who reflect the global marketplace, our cilents, and the communities we serve. We strive to create an environment in which each individual at every level has the opportunity to succeed professionally, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, national origin, parental status, race, religion, sexual orientation, and/or socio-economic experiences. We recognise that our commitment to diversity and inclusion enhances our other core values of commitment to client services and a teamwork culture.

Some of the inclusion networks of which we are very proud to be part of are The LGBTQ+ Network, The Women's Initiative Network and The Working Parents and Caregivers Network. Please look at our website for more information.

The London office's DEI committee is committed to respecting and celebrating diverse communities, cultures and faiths and our aim is to:

• promote diversity, equity and inclusion;
• foster an inclusive environment; and
• encourage wellbeing.

We look for evidence of academic achievement and potential, not only at grades and to assist us, we have partnered with REALrating, provided by upReach. We use their contextualised recruitment tool to assist us in recruiting candidates from a diverse socio-economic background. This tool provides us with valuable insight into the context in which grades were achieved.

We encourage candidates to complete this information in the application form to give us a more complete picture, particularly in relation to A-level grades.

The London office is proud to be in partnership with the #10000InternsFoundation programme and we have made a five-year commitment to the programme. We welcome our fifth round of interns in Summer 2026. 

Haynes Boone offers full sponsorship of the PgDL and SQE study routes.

We also offer an annual maintenance grant of £10,000 per year of study.

• Energy & shipping
• Finance
• Corporate
• Real estate
• Venture capital
• Litigation

• Corporate & Commercial
• General Commercial

• London

• London

• LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group)
• London Legal Support Trust (LLST)
• Prince’s Trust
• Pro Bono Connect
• Together for Short Lives
• Voices for Families

• #10000BlackInterns
• REALrating