Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law. Today, S&C is a leader in each of its core practice areas and in each of its geographic markets, illustrated by our regular top rankings in independent surveys.

With more than 900 lawyers across an international network of 13 offices on four continents, S&C has maintained an international reach by developing offices to serve client needs and staffing them primarily with lawyers who have been with S&C for their entire careers.

Sullivan & Cromwell’s London office, established in 1972, is the second-largest office of the Firm. It serves as a natural focal point for English law advice, as well as for cross-border European and cross-continental transactions. 

There are approximately 90 lawyers and trainees working in the office across a number of practice areas, including M&A and private equity, capital markets, finance and restructuring including project development and finance, competition law and tax.

S&C offers a two-week summer vacation scheme primarily aimed at penultimate-year law students and final-year non-law students. Remuneration £750 per week.

To apply for a summer placement during 2025, please apply online: sullcrom.grad.allhires.com/app/. 

We will be accepting applications online for our 2025 summer vacation scheme from 1 November 2024 through 10 January 2025.

For more information, please visit: https://www.sullcrom.com/Careers/Offices/United-Kingdom/U.K.-Summer-Vacation-Scheme.

We seek trainees who have strong academic credentials (including a projected or achieved First or Upper Second Class honours degree, or equivalent) and an excellent prior academic record. Most importantly, however, candidates should also have intellectual curiosity, integrity, common sense, commercial awareness and an ambition to succeed as a lawyer at one of the world’s leading law firms. Strong interpersonal skills will also be important: S&C is looking for team players.

We expect most of our applicants to be penultimate-year law students and final-year non-law students. Graduates and post-graduates are also eligible.

We will offer our trainees the opportunity to do superior work, meet exceptional people and grow in a supportive culture. We aim to distinguish our trainee programme by offering genuine mentoring from partners and other senior lawyers who will take a keen interest in your career development.

Training contracts with S&C are divided into at least four seats – two six-month seats during your first year of training and we will consider three four-month seats during your second year of training. You will be supervised in each seat by a partner who is a leader in his or her field, along with other senior lawyers. They will provide the guidance you need to help you make the transition from academic study to legal practice.

For more information, please visit: https://www.sullcrom.com/Careers/Offices/United-Kingdom/U.K.-Trainee-Solicitors-Programme.

In addition to offering the most attractive trainee salary and benefits package of any major law firm in London, we will cover PGDL//SQE fees for prospective trainees who accept our offer of a training contract. We will also pay a maintenance grant, currently £20,000 per annum.

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