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Allen & Overy is one of the world's leading international legal practices with approximately 5,000 staff, including some 470 partners, working in 27 major business centres worldwide.

Our lawyers advise the world's leading businesses, financial institutions, governments and private individuals. We regularly work on complex cross-border transactions, ground breaking new legal solutions and products, and help our clients resolve their most difficult disputes.

Our areas of expertise include:
Antitrust and EU; Employment and Benefits;Energy and Infrastructure; Finance; Industry Sectors; Intellectual Property; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; M&A, Corporate and Commercial; Private Wealth and Charities; Real Estate; Regulatory; Tax; US Law.

Allen & Overy LLP or an affiliated undertaking has an office in each of:
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bangkok, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mannheim, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Prague, Riyadh (associated office), Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Warsaw.

All of our offices offer a fabulous environment within which to work. The offices' facilities can include gyms, restaurants, cafes, breakout areas and medical facilities, and our exceptional benefits packages include office specific award plans, pensions and insurance schemes and annual leave entitlement.

Our recent awards include:
• Most Innovative Law Firm and number one firm in the FT Law 50 – Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report (July 2007)
• Finance team of the year, Capital Markets/Structured Finance – The Lawyer Awards 2006
• Middle East law firm of the year – IFLR Awards 2006

Allen & Overy is its people and we aim to have the best people for our business. Our strategy for recruiting, retaining and developing our people is underpinned by celebrating and valuing the contribution of every individual. Our success rests on harnessing the potential and ambition of our people to our collective goals. We aim to create a challenging environment in which all our people can excel. To this end we offer a number of development programmes and courses which focus on supporting our employees and their continuous development.

The practice also encourages all members of staff to become involved in pro bono an community work and it recognises and rewards this important contribution to our pro bono and community affairs programme, Values into Community Action.

We recognise our people for their skills, experience and potential and believe in recruiting and retaining the best talent from the widest pool to meet our clients' needs. Diversity enables us to understand and respond better to our clients, and therefore makes good business sense. What differentiates our people is that they are more than just technical experts in their field. They have an enthusiasm for every aspect of their life, which together with their drive for self development, means that they are always ready to contribute their best in whatever they are taking part.

Allen & Overy means Allen & Overy LLP and/or its affiliated undertakings.

Recruitment Contact:
Samantha Turnbull
Samantha.turnbull@allenovery.com

Graduate Recruitment Contact:
Graduate Recruitment
Graduate.recruitment@allenovery.com

Offices – (inc address, tele number & fax number) : Please visit our website for details: www.allenovery.com