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Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

35 VINE STREET, LONDON, EC3N 2AA, ENGLAND

Tel:: Work 020 7861 4000
Fax:: Fax 020 7861 0084
DX:: 823 LONDON CITY EC3

Web:: www.ffw.com
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Paris, Munchen, Manchester, London, Hamburg, Brussels

Field Fisher Waterhouse is a European law firm providing commercial solutions across a range of industry sectors. It has a particular focus on companies that are highly regulated and those with intellectual property and technology-driven business models.

The firm: Field Fisher Waterhouse has over 140 partners, 240 other lawyers and nearly 300 support staff across offices in Brussels, Munich, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Paris, London, Manchester . The firm also has an exclusive relationship with Italian firm La Scala.

International clients choose to work with the firm because it provides exceptional lawyers with industry expertise and strong commercial knowledge of clients’ businesses, enabling the firm to work with them to maximise their market opportunities. Field Fisher Waterhouse is acknowledged as a leading expert in sectors such as technology and communications, hotels and leisure, and media, as well as for public sector work.

Clients include listed and unlisted companies, multinationals, financial institutions, professional partnerships, trade associations and government departments. They value the firm’s flexible approach to teamwork and the fact that it shapes its structures and way of working to meet their specific needs.

Recruitment: Field Fisher Waterhouse seeks to recruit high-calibre individuals to support its continuing growth. The firm’s retention rates are excellent and many of the partners trained with the firm.

All current vacancies are listed on Field Fisher Waterhouse’s website and online applications are welcomed.

Further information about the firm is available from the firm’s website at www.ffw.com.

Types of work undertaken: The firm’s main areas of practice are corporate, IP, technology and regulatory law. The firm also has leading expertise in areas such as banking and finance, financial services, real estate, dispute resolution, personal injury and medical negligence.

Other offices: Brussels, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Manchester, Munich, Paris.

Number of UK partners 115
Number of other UK fee-earners 222

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