Interesting selling points

• Chambers and Partners has awarded the firm Band 1 rankings for its Construction and Real Estate departments. 
• The firm is truly global; it's the only integrated law firm to have ~200 lawyers in each of the three largest financial centres (New York, London and Hong Kong).
• Services a wide range of industries, including consumer financial services, private equity, projects and infrastructure, technology, healthcare, life sciences, and transportation, demonstrating the firm’s ability to address the unique legal challenges faced by clients in various sectors.
• Has a Public Policy, Regulatory & Political Law practice as well as an International Trade practice.
• Notable clients include Amazon, Caterpillar, JP Morgan, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Blackstone and Bain Capital.
• Dedicated to leveraging technology to deliver flexible and innovative legal services, shown through initiatives like NextGen, a professional network for tomorrow's leaders in law, industry, and technology, and Embrio, an in-house innovation initiative focusing on legal process improvement, knowledge management, and client solutions.
• Involved in various impactful pro bono initiatives such as the Disability Benefits Tribunal Project with Z2K, the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative, and KIND UK.

We cover these selling points in more detail below, alongside other relevant firm facts and characteristics.

Practice areas / services

Mayer Brown is a full-service law firm, with a broad range of practice areas including: 

• Antitrust & Competition
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• Corporate & Securities
• Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
• Emerging Companies & Venture Capital
• Employment & Benefits
• Enterprise Risk & Crisis Management
• Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement
• Global Mobility & Migration
• Government Transactions
• Intellectual Property
• International Trade
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Clients, Trusts & Estates
• Public Policy, Regulatory & Political Law
• Real Estate Markets
• Restructuring
• Supply Chain & Distribution
• Tax
• Technology Transactions

Chambers and Partners, a leading analyst of the legal market, has awarded Mayer Brown its highest ‘Band 1’ ranking for the following departments: Construction:Contentious, Construction: Professional Negligence and Real Estate: £150 million and above. See here for more information.

Key sectors / industries

Mayer Brown services a broad range of industries, with some of its highest-value clients operating in the following sectors:

• Consumer Financial Services
• Private Equity
• Projects and Infrastructure
• Technology

In addition, Mayer Brown services the following industries: business development companies; chemicals; construction and engineering; fintech; global energy; healthcare; hospitality and leisure; insurance; life sciences; mining; projects and infrastructure; space and satellite; sports, entertainment and media; and transportation.

Work

Mayer Brown advises clients on complex, bespoke transactions and disputes. Examples of its work include:

• Nestlé: Mayer Brown, in association with Tauil & Chequer Advogados, advised Nestlé in a power self-production project in consortium with Enel Brasil. 
• Blackstone: The firm advised Blackstone on the acquisition of AirTrunk, a leading Asian data center operator, for an implied enterprise value of $24 billion. It represents Blackstone’s largest-ever investment in the Asia Pacific region. 
• Bain Capital: Mayer Brown advised Bain Capital on a strategic partnership with Aquila Group to build a leading European sustainable data centre platform. 
• Unilever: advised long-time client Unilever on its sale of its stake in chemicals manufacturing firm Rahu Catalytics to materials provider OM Group.

Offices / global footprint / expansion

Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Offices: Mayer Brown has an international network of 26 offices, with its largest concentration existing in the United States. Office locations include London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

The firm is truly global; it's the only integrated law firm to have ~200 lawyers in each of the three largest financial centres (New York, London and Hong Kong). See here for more information.

Insights, internships and other opportunities

Mayer Brown offers a number of opportunities for individuals wishing to gain experience in the legal industry and learn more about life at the firm. Opportunities for interested applicants include: the chance to hear from and network with firm representatives at university society events and university law fairs; and spring and summer vacation schemes that are open to students and graduates and have apparently previously included visits to the firm’s Paris office.

Training contract

Mayer Brown offers a four-seat training contract, with each seat lasting six months (trainees must sit in at least one transactional team and one contentious team during this time). As part of the firm’s highly-rated training programme, trainees share an office with a partner or senior associate who will be responsible for supervising and practice-specific training. Additional learning occurs through a variety of legal training sessions and workshops, which cover both seat-specific knowledge and trainees’ broader awareness of business and legal issues.

Secondments

Trainees at Mayer Brown have the option of pursuing a client secondment within the UK or applying for an international secondment at a variety of offices, with previous secondment locations including Hong Kong, Chicago and New York.

Mayer Brown considers itself a leading firm when it comes to delivering innovative and impactful pro bono work. Recent examples of projects taken on by the firm include:

• Z2K: The firm partnered with Z2K to deliver the Disability Benefits Tribunal Project, which connects lawyers to low-income Londoners who are in need of tribunal representation when they are denied their disability benefits. 
• Afghan Pro Bono Initiative: Mayer Brown provides support to the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative, a project which is spearheaded by Refugee Legal Support and Safe Passage International to provide Afghan refugees with legal representation. Mayer Brown is one of 14 law firms to partner with the charities to help deliver the initiative. 
• KIND UK: Mayer Brown lawyers work on cases of undocumented children and young people via KIND’s hub at the Central England Law Centre. 

Diversity and inclusion

Mayer Brown has pursued a number of initiatives to encourage a more diverse, purposeful, and inclusive environment across its international network. Examples include: 

• Fusion Network: In the UK, a group of lawyers and business services staff set up the Fusion Network, which focuses on racial and social justice, social mobility and social outreach. 
• Women’s Leadership Committee: This committee oversees the various women’s initiatives at the firm and works in conjunction with the firm’s global Management Committee. It is comprised of women partners from the firm’s various offices and identifies opportunities and methods to support female lawyers. 
• Unconscious Bias Workshops: The firm runs workshops in its offices worldwide to heighten awareness of unconscious bias. It is interactive, is professionally facilitated, and features actors creating scenarios that spark reaction and promote productive discussion from the audience.