Summer Stagiaire

**About Herbert Smith Freehills**

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

**The Opportunity**

This paid internship scheme runs at Herbert Smith Freehills Brussels office between 1 July - 30 September 2025. Each internship is 2 weeks in length.

Our Competition, Regulation and Trade group is consistently rated as one of the leading practices in its field, with a team of lawyers based in Europe (Brussels, London, Düsseldorf, Madrid and Paris), the Middle East, Asia, Africa (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Riyadh, Dubai, and Johannesburg), and across Australia.

Amongst our clients are leading financial institutions, top Fortune and FTSE companies from all industry sectors, regulatory bodies and national governments.

Our team covers the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious competition, regulation and trade work globally, including:

- cartel and other behavioural investigations
- competition litigation (private enforcement and appeals)
- merger control
- antitrust advice
- regulatory matters
- state aid, public procurement, WTO and trade

**Responsibilities**:

- This role could entail working on a range of corporate and contentious matters across the competition, regulation and trade practice, including; general competition (antitrust), cartels and other behavioural investigations, merger control, competition litigation, regulatory matters, state aid, public procurement, and WTO and international trade.
- You will manage work to support optimal utilisation by assisting senior lawyers as required, taking the lead on designated tasks (particularly legal research) and consulting and offering solutions on client issues (with senior support), communicating your progress to your supervisor and team members.
- You will support the firm and others by establishing effective relationships with individuals and groups across the practice and wider network, upholding the firm’s values, contributing to the firm’s initiatives, and assisting with internal training and preparation of legal precedents.

In order to be considered you must:

- Be a 2nd/3rd year law student
- Must have the right to work in the EU
- Competition modules are desirable but not essential
- Be able to travel to our Brussels office or be happy to arrange your own accommodation

**Team**

Competition, Regulation & Trade

**Working Pattern**

Full time

**Location**

Brussels

**Contract type**

Stagiaire Contract

**Diversity & Inclusion**

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.