Kirkland & Ellis International LLP Training Contracts & Work Placements

Deadlines

14 Dec 2025

Training programme to commence 2028 Deadline passed

14 Dec 2025

Summer work placement Deadline passed

14 Dec 2025

Spring work placement Deadline passed

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Kate Bowyer

Type of practice

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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.

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.

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.

Insolvency/restructuring

Restructuring and insolvency lawyers are necessary when a company, individual or other organisation is in financial difficulties.

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.

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Learn more about Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

40 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A 2AA
Phone: 020 7469 2000
Email: [email protected]

Work placement:	Yes
Minimum qualification:	2.1 degree
First-year trainee salary:	£60,000
Second-year trainee salary:	£65,000
NQ salary:	$225,000
Fees paid for:	PGDL/GDL SQE

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London