Associate

Job Description & Requirements

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

Our Office

A&O Shearman in Singapore is a hub for the firm's work across Southeast Asia, with our Singapore office being an intrinsic part of the firm's Asia Pacific network. Our history in Singapore spans 30 years. We were among the first batch of international firms to be granted a Singapore Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) license in 2008. In providing clients with the highest quality Singapore, U.S., and English legal advice, we are able to leverage our strength in local law capability to manage the more complex deals with Singapore law elements. We are, in every sense, one global team: supportive and collaborative, but also ambitious and driven. Our capacity to combine these qualities and provide a setting in which our people can thrive is what makes us different.

A&O Shearman's Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure (ENRI) group is a market-leading practice. We are looking for associates to join our team in Singapore.

Role Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with 4 to 8 years of PQE, interested in finance-related or project document work
• Strong technical knowledge
• Excellent client relationship skills
• Strong commercial/business acumen with the ability to deliver creative and pragmatic solutions and advice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface at all levels and particularly to win the respect of the partner and fee-earner community, building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborative team player with the ability to develop and work in a fast-paced, intellectually rigorous environment