Culture and Talent Development
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer makes personal and professional growth a priority, offering opportunities across all levels of seniority and diverse skillsets.
The firm's culture emphasizes collaboration, high performance, and continuous innovation, creating an environment where lawyers and professionals can thrive while delivering exceptional client service.
The firm takes a distinctive approach to talent development, recognizing that the rapid changes facing the legal profession require new ways of developing people. HSF Kramer's careers platform highlights their commitment to "life at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer," positioning the firm as a place where professionals work on high-profile matters that genuinely matter to clients.
Central to the firm's culture is the integration of market-leading legal technology, which empowers lawyers to work more efficiently and effectively.
This technology-enabled approach reflects the firm's broader philosophy of embracing dramatic change in how they operate, respond to client needs, and create career pathways for their people.
The combination of innovation, collaboration, and investment in people distinguishes Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer in the competitive global legal market.
Overview
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a leading global law firm operating in key markets where their clients need them most.
With approximately 2,145 employees and annual revenue of around $1.3 billion USD, the firm has established itself as a major player in the international legal services market, competing alongside premier firms such as Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright, and Clifford Chance.
The firm combines extensive scale and depth in both disputes and transactions with a strategic focus on addressing the transformative issues shaping their clients' futures.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer emphasizes a culture of collaboration and high performance, embedding market-leading legal technology to empower their people to deliver outstanding results.
This technology-forward approach positions them as innovators in an industry facing rapid and disruptive shifts.
Under the leadership of Chair and Senior Partner Rebecca Maslen-Stannage, who articulates that the firm "sees the law beyond precedent," Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer maintains a forward-looking philosophy.
The firm recognizes that the challenges facing clients and the legal profession represent opportunities to embrace dramatic change in how they work, respond to clients, and develop talent.
Their mission centers on delivering high-quality legal services through collaboration, innovation, and sophisticated use of technology.
Capabilities and Practice Areas
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer offers comprehensive legal services across a broad spectrum of practice areas and industry sectors.
The firm's service offerings are organized into two main categories: specialized legal services and sector-focused expertise.
Core Legal Services:
- Bankruptcy and Restructuring: Advising on complex insolvency matters and corporate restructurings
- Capital Markets: Facilitating debt and equity offerings, IPOs, and securities transactions
- Class Actions and Collective Litigation: Defending corporations in multi-plaintiff litigation
- Competition/Antitrust: Navigating regulatory compliance and merger clearances
- Disputes and Litigation: Handling high-stakes commercial disputes and arbitrations
- Transactions and M&A: Executing complex mergers, acquisitions, and corporate deals
Sector Expertise:
The firm serves clients across eleven key industry sectors including Consumer, Defence and National Security, Energy, Financial Services, Infrastructure, Mining, Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare, Private Capital, Real Estate, Technology, and Telecommunications.
This dual approach—combining deep service line expertise with sector-specific knowledge—enables the firm to deliver what they describe as a "holistic perspective, commercially applied" to complex client challenges.
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