Junior-Mid Construction Associate

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not‑for‑profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world‑class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

Clifford Chance's Construction Group is unique in operating at the top tier of all construction industry sectors. Our approach is to be innovative and commercial, providing a complete and market‑leading service to clients.

We work across the energy spectrum. We are working on pathfinding renewable and energy transition technologies including green hydrogen, nuclear, floating offshore wind, CSP+storage, sustainable aviation fuel and CCS projects in addition to our established market leading position on fixed bottom offshore wind, onshore wind, hydropower, PV solar, thermosolar, biomass, energy from waste and conventional (gas) energy projects. Recent examples include major new nuclear projects in the UK and Belgium, the first commercial‑scale offshore wind projects in South Korea and Japan, the first utility scale floating offshore wind projects and a hydropower project in Mozambique.

From urban regeneration to trophy single assets; from sports stadia to luxury hotels, from residential to office; and dynamic new asset classes such as data centres, film studios and major railway infrastructure‑adjacent developments. Current examples include Battersea Power Station redevelopment, London Bankside, leading global data centre developers and the Qiddiyah entertainment district.

We are proud to be associated with some of the world’s most iconic and vital transport, utilities, defence and social infrastructure projects. We are currently working on light rail projects, new hospitals and major new bridges and tunnel projects across Europe, Africa and Latin America.

We cover all industrial process facilities from mines to mills. We work on some of the world’s largest mineral deals including LNG liquefaction and regas projects, refineries and petchem facilities and mining projects. We are currently extremely active up and down the EV battery supply chain, from EV gigafactories, to CAM plants, to mining and lithium processing facilities.

The only leading law firm to maintain a highly specialist construction team of such size and dedicated cross‑sector focus.

The future of the practice: the quality of our instructions and the continuing success of the Construction Group make it one of the leading places to be doing this kind of work.

A wide variety of instructions from a variety of clients, including the very biggest and complex deals. We work with some of the firm’s strategic clients on projects which will touch and change all of our lives – often involving pathfinding technology.

Regular training sessions, alternating…