Trade and Commodities Associate

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We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can gain early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you The Deal between the firm and its employees.

YOU CAN EXPECT

• A competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies
• Life assurance private health and dental care for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers
• Tech cycle and electric car schemes
• We support the causes you care about by giving you one day per year off to volunteer with any charity that you are involved with outside of work.
• A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical emotional financial and social aspects.
• Most of our roles are hybrid meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.
• We are an equal opportunity organisation committed to having a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of age sex race disability sexual orientation culture or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives

Stephenson Harwoods international maritime trade and offshore (MTO) practice group combines its ship finance shipping and trade and commodities expertise. The group offers a breadth of services to clients active in the commodity shipping insurance and offshore sectors that few other firms can match. Our practice is international in nature and serviced by specialist lawyers operating out of our London Dubai Greater China Seoul and Singapore offices.

Our Trade & Commodities team which sits within the new MTO group is ranked in Tier 1 by Legal 500 is led by some of the most respected names in the field and acts for a diverse range of clients involved in the extraction production supply carriage storage financing and industrial consumption of energy and natural resources. Our clients include energy companies trading houses financiers utilities industrial consumers and mining groups.

Contentious work forms the core of our practice with a non-exclusive focus on physical commodities commodity finance and related disputes. We also have a market-leading reputation for commodities fraud matters. Our caseload includes both litigation and arbitration and is typically cross-jurisdictional in nature. We are often instructed at an early stage and spend much of our time helping clients solve problems in real-time before they manifest into disputes.

We also maintain a transactional and advisory element to our practice assisting clients on a variety of off-take supply distribution master trading tolling and other agreements as well as financing structures charterparties and contracts of affreightment.

You will focus primarily on litigation and arbitration matters. Litigation work will typically be before the Commercial Court in London but may involve co-ordinating proceedings in other jurisdictions. Arbitration work may be institutional (typically ICC LCIA or SIAC) trade (typically GAFTA FOSFA or RSA/SAL) ad hoc or on LMAA Terms.

You will develop your legal skills as a contract lawyer (particularly with respect to the sale carriage storage and financing of goods) and be given exposure to a wide range of clients operating in the energy metals and soft commodities sectors. You will also broaden your skillset to include drafting and advisory work.

If you would like a copy of the full job description please reach out to Luke Van Rooyen ().

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm and were committed to creating positive partnerships with our clients. We represent listed and private companies institutions and individuals building lasting relationships to help them succeed in a complex and ever-changing world.

Our focus is on five core sectors: Energy Transition Life Sciences and Healthcare Private Capital and Funds Technology and Transportation and Trade.

With more than 1500 people including 250 partners across eleven offices in Europe the Middle East and Asia we combine deep legal capabilities and broad commercial expertise. We have also forged close ties with high quality law firms around the world blending local knowledge with global savvy for clients in over 100 countries.

We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.

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