Clifford Chance

Helps businesses prevent, navigate and resolve antitrust challenges through coordinated global advice, regulatory engagement and representation.

Clients receive commercially focused legal guidance to structure and execute complex capital markets transactions across jurisdictions.

Helps clients address corporate matters, identify opportunities and anticipate challenges through coordinated sector and practice area expertise.

Clients draw on legal and commercial expertise to identify opportunities and anticipate challenges in data centres and AI compute infrastructure.

Access legal advice across energy transition projects, transactions, regulation and a broad range of low-carbon energy sectors.

Clients receive legal advice to navigate complex financing transactions, financial products, and regulatory issues across markets.

Helps asset and fund management clients navigate transactions, regulatory issues and disputes with coordinated legal advice and global market insights.

Helps clients address intellectual property matters with related legal services, advice and insights on global IP developments.

Navigate cross-border disputes with coordinated legal advice and technology-supported litigation services from matter scoping through production.

Provides clients with legal support in real estate matters.

Helps clients address ESG obligations, develop best practices, manage risks and pursue sustainability and ESG-related opportunities.

Get legal advice across tax, pensions, employment and incentives to address business-critical issues.

Helps technology businesses address legal and regulatory issues and pursue transactions with practical advice from an international team.

Access practical legal guidance on dawn raids, employment law, litigation and cyber issues across jurisdictions.

Helps clients generate tailored legal documents faster, saving time and money while reducing risk in the drafting process.

Access focused legal information and practical resources to manage risk, track market developments, handle transactions and compliance, and support business growth.

Antitrust

Clifford Chance provides global legal advice and representation on contentious and non-contentious antitrust matters. Its network of more than 200 antitrust lawyers supports complex multinational matters, including merger control, dominance cases, cartel investigations, market inquiries, foreign investment screening, state aid, public procurement and litigation. The team helps clients prevent antitrust issues through tailored compliance programs and provides structured support during dawn raids, from immediate response and evidence gathering to preparation and risk assessment. Its advice considers the interaction of laws and practices across jurisdictions and their practical implications for clients’ businesses.

• Coordinate Advice Across Jurisdictions
  Clients can address multinational antitrust matters with coordinated legal support that accounts for differing rules and practices across relevant jurisdictions.
• Navigate Global Merger Clearances
  Clients receive support overcoming merger clearance hurdles and coordinating filings across jurisdictions, helping address regulatory obstacles to transactions.
• Address Complex Enforcement Matters
  Clients can obtain legal advice and representation in major antitrust investigations, including dominance and cartel matters that span multiple jurisdictions.
• Respond And Prepare For Dawn Raids
  Clients can access immediate legal support during investigations and prepare staff and procedures in advance, with evidence gathering and risk assessments supporting timely decisions.
• Litigate Antitrust Claims Worldwide
  Clients can obtain representation in complex antitrust court cases and claims across jurisdictions, whether bringing or defending proceedings.
• Develop Tailored Compliance Programs
  Clients can put antitrust compliance programs in place to help prevent issues arising from business practices.
• Manage Market And Sector Inquiries
  Clients receive support through investigation stages, from assessing evidence and answering information requests to preparing for authority meetings and hearings.
• Navigate Foreign Investment Reviews
  Clients can identify filing requirements, prepare submissions and engage with authorities as they navigate foreign investment screening regimes.
• Advise On State Aid Matters
  Clients receive advice and representation on state aid issues, including investigations, challenges, recovery, and the implications of investments and divestments.
• Resolve Public Procurement Challenges
  Clients can obtain advice on procurement requirements and representation in contract-award disputes, as well as support with transaction structuring and injunctive relief.

Capital Markets

Clifford Chance provides legal advice on capital markets transactions, drawing on a global, multidisciplinary team. Its capabilities include debt and equity capital markets, securitisation and structured finance, and support for complex cross-border deals. The firm also advises on financial products and regulatory issues, bringing commercial and market insight to clients’ transactions.

• Structure Debt Capital Transactions
  Clients can draw on legal advice for debt capital markets transactions, including bond offerings, sovereign debt issuance, and debt programmes.
• Navigate Equity Market Transactions
  Clients receive legal guidance on equity capital markets transactions such as IPOs and share admissions, supported by experience across financial services and investment products.
• Execute Cross-Border Market Transactions
  Clients benefit from coordinated legal support for complex capital markets transactions involving multiple jurisdictions and practice areas.
• Structure Securitisation And Finance Deals
  Clients can obtain advice on securitisation and structured finance transactions, including deals that combine different forms of capital markets financing.
• Navigate Capital Markets Regulation
  Clients receive commercially focused guidance on regulatory issues and legislation relevant to capital markets matters across jurisdictions.

Corporate

Clifford Chance's Corporate service provides legal services and advice for corporate matters. Its combined sector and practice area approach focuses on evolving client issues and helps clients identify opportunities and anticipate challenges.

• Apply Integrated Legal And Sector Expertise
  Clients benefit from a combined sector and practice area approach that connects legal and commercial developments with the issues critical to their businesses.
• Identify Business Opportunities
  Clifford Chance works with clients to identify opportunities in areas where its partnership and expertise can bring value.
• Anticipate Evolving Challenges
  By focusing on evolving client issues and legal and commercial developments, Clifford Chance works with clients to anticipate challenges.

Data centres and AI compute infrastructure

Clifford Chance provides legal services and advice for data centres and AI compute infrastructure matters. Its combined sector and practice area approach focuses its expertise on issues critical to clients and helps them identify opportunities and anticipate challenges.

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• Identify Opportunities And Anticipate Challenges
  Clients can work with Clifford Chance to identify opportunities and anticipate challenges, drawing on the firm's combined sector and practice area expertise.

Energy Transition

Clifford Chance advises clients on energy transition-related opportunities across project financing and development, regulation, M&A and joint ventures, and construction. Its work covers carbon capture, utilisation and storage; carbon trading and investment; clean hydrogen; energy infrastructure; green fuels; infratech; new nuclear; and renewable energy. The firm also describes experience advising on sustainable fuels and energy transition projects globally.

• Navigate Project Financing And Development
  Clients can access legal advice on financing and developing energy transition-related opportunities.
• Explore Key Energy Transition Sectors
  Clients can seek advice on opportunities across the identified energy transition pillars, including CCUS, carbon trading and investment, clean hydrogen, energy infrastructure, green fuels, infratech, new nuclear and renewable energy.
• Address Regulatory Matters
  Clients receive legal advice on regulatory aspects of energy transition opportunities.
• Structure M&A And Joint Ventures
  Clients can obtain legal advice on M&A and joint venture aspects of energy transition-related opportunities.
• Address Construction Matters
  Clients can access legal advice on construction aspects of energy transition projects.
• Advance Sustainable Fuels Projects
  Clients can draw on the firm's stated experience advising on sustainable aviation fuel and green fuels transactions across multiple regions.

Finance

Clifford Chance's Finance service provides legal advice on financing and financial products, supporting banks and other financial services clients with complex transactions and business and regulatory issues. Its related banking and financial services teams advise on syndicated lending, leveraged and acquisition finance, asset and project finance, derivatives, structured debt and finance, financial regulation, and insolvency and restructuring. The firm also advises on complex cross-border financings and transactions.

• Structure Complex Financing Transactions
  Clients can obtain legal advice on a range of financing arrangements, including syndicated loans, leveraged and acquisition finance, asset finance, project finance, and cross-border deals.
• Navigate Financial Regulatory Requirements
  Clients can draw on commercially focused expertise to navigate financial legislation and regulatory issues across jurisdictions, including Basel III and EU, UK, and US frameworks.
• Address Complex Financial Products
  Clients receive legal advice on derivative products, structured debt, and structured finance.
• Assess Restructuring Options
  Clients can obtain advice on insolvency and restructuring matters, including consideration of restructuring options across jurisdictions.
• Complete Strategic Banking Transactions
  Banks can access legal advice for complex strategic acquisitions and disposals, supported by lawyers drawn from multiple practice areas.

Funds & Asset Management

Clifford Chance provides legal advice and guidance for asset and fund management businesses. Its financial services team brings transactional, regulatory, disputes and advisory professionals together across practice areas and geographies, supporting clients on strategic projects, transactions, regulatory issues and complex disputes. The firm also offers market, regulatory and legal insights to help clients identify risks and opportunities.

• Navigate Complex Asset And Fund Management Matters
  Clients can draw on legal guidance focused on asset and fund management, informed by the regulatory, economic and market challenges affecting financial services.
• Structure And Execute Complex Cross-Border Deals
  Clients receive legal support on strategic projects and transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and financing arrangements.
• Address Regulatory Issues And Complex Disputes
  Clients can access regulatory and disputes advice, including guidance on regulatory investigations and risk management, to help navigate complex issues.
• Coordinate Legal Expertise Across Practices And Geographies
  A team spanning transactional, regulatory, disputes and advisory work coordinates across practice areas and geographies for financial services clients, including traditional and alternative asset managers.
• Identify Risks And Opportunities With Global Insights
  Global market and regulatory insights help clients identify risks, address business challenges and recognize opportunities for growth.

Intellectual property

Clifford Chance provides legal services and advice relating to intellectual property. Its Global IP team also shares insights and opinions on intellectual property trends, regulatory changes and developments, including the role of new technologies in shaping the global intellectual property market.

• Address Intellectual Property Matters
  Access legal services and advice relating to intellectual property.
• Follow Global IP Developments
  Read insights and opinions from the Global IP team on intellectual property trends, regulatory changes and developments.
• Track Technology's IP Impact
  Access commentary on how the role of new technologies is shaping the global intellectual property market.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Clifford Chance advises and represents multinational clients in cross-border litigation, international arbitration and investigations. Its litigation toolkit supports matters from scoping through production, bringing together legal research, eDiscovery analytics and services, document review platforms, and court-presentation tools. Experienced eDiscovery and legal technology teams work with lawyers on document reviews, using technology and matter-specific resourcing to support litigation strategy.

• Address Disputes Across Borders
  Clients can access legal advice and representation for litigation and arbitration matters that span jurisdictions, supported by a firm positioned to work across differing legal systems.
• Support Every Stage Of Litigation
  Teams support matters from initial scoping through production, maintaining involvement throughout the matter and aligning resources and technology with the litigation strategy.
• Equip Matters With Litigation Tools
  A range of research, eDiscovery, document review and court-presentation tools supports different stages and scenarios in litigation.
• Accelerate Document Review
  Legal technology and eDiscovery specialists work with lawyers to deliver document reviews described as faster, accurate and cost effective. A case study reports that machine-learning software cut lawyers' review effort by more than half and accelerated client delivery.
• Match Resources To Matter Needs
  Teams use the matter's litigation strategy to support decisions about the resourcing and technologies applied throughout the work.

Real estate

Legal services and advice relating to real estate matters.

Sustainability and ESG

Clifford Chance provides legal advice on sustainability and environmental, social and governance matters. Its expertise includes helping clients address ESG-related obligations, develop best practices and pursue ESG value-creation opportunities. In energy transition, the firm advises on project financing and development, regulation, M&A and joint ventures, and construction across areas including renewable energy, clean hydrogen, carbon trading and investment, and carbon capture, utilisation and storage.

• Advance Energy Transition Projects
  Clients can obtain legal advice across multiple stages and aspects of energy transition opportunities, including financing, development, regulation, transactions and construction.
• Navigate ESG Obligations
  Clients can seek legal advice on ESG-related obligations and develop best practices in the field.
• Finance And Develop Projects
  Clients can receive legal advice on financing and developing energy transition-related projects.
• Address Regulatory Developments
  Legal advice on regulatory matters supports clients navigating energy transition opportunities and evolving market and regulatory developments.
• Pursue ESG Opportunities
  The firm helps clients identify and capitalise on ESG-related investment and value-creation opportunities.
• Structure Deals And Construction
  Clients can obtain legal advice on energy transition M&A, joint ventures and construction matters.

Tax, Pensions, Employment & Incentives

Clifford Chance provides legal services and advice across tax, pensions, employment and incentives. Its expertise supports clients in addressing issues critical to their businesses and identifying opportunities and anticipating challenges.

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• Address Tax Matters
  Access legal advice on tax matters within the practice’s stated scope.
• Address Pensions Matters
  Access legal advice on pensions matters within the practice’s stated scope. The firm’s site also includes UK pensions updates among its insights.
• Address Employment Matters
  Access legal advice on employment matters within the practice’s stated scope.
• Address Incentives Matters
  Access legal advice on incentives within the practice’s stated scope.

Tech Group

Clifford Chance’s Tech Group is its broader technology legal offering. The firm supports businesses in the technology, media and telecommunications sector through an international team with sector knowledge and experience. It provides relevant, practical legal advice informed by clients’ strategic objectives, including advice on mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and competition, compliance and sector regulation, finance, capital markets, litigation and tax.

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• Navigate Technology Transactions
  Access legal advice on mergers and acquisitions for businesses operating in the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
• Address Compliance And Regulatory Matters
  Receive compliance and regulatory advice tailored to the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
• Address Competition Issues
  Get legal advice on antitrust and competition issues relevant to technology, media and telecommunications businesses.
• Address Litigation Matters
  Access litigation-related legal advice for matters affecting technology, media and telecommunications businesses.
• Address Financing Matters
  Access finance-related legal advice as part of the firm’s support for technology, media and telecommunications businesses.
• Navigate Capital Markets Matters
  Get legal advice on capital markets matters relevant to technology, media and telecommunications businesses.
• Address Tax Matters
  Get tax-related legal advice as part of the firm’s support for technology, media and telecommunications businesses.

Clifford Chance Apps

Clifford Chance Apps provide expert advice and support at your fingertips. The collection includes the Dawn Raids App, which covers more than 90 authorities across Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States; the Employment Law Guide, which provides an overview of employment law across a range of key jurisdictions; the Litigation Guide App, which provides country-by-country litigation guidance; and the Cyber Assist App, which offers resources for navigating cyber-related legal issues around the world.

• Prepare For Urgent Dawn Raids
  Access guidance covering more than 90 authorities across Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States to help deal with urgent dawn raid situations.
• Review Employment Law Across Jurisdictions
  Consult an overview of employment law across a large range of key jurisdictions.
• Navigate Cross-Border Litigation
  Use country-by-country litigation guidance when managing cross-border cases, including cases in unfamiliar locations.
• Access Global Cyber Legal Resources
  Find resources at your fingertips for navigating cyber-related legal issues around the world, including those arising from IT incidents or data breaches.

CC Dr@ft

CC Dr@ft combines a flexible, robust document automation platform with solution design, onboarding and maintenance services. Clients can quickly and independently generate tailored, house-styled documents in the secure tool. Clifford Chance supports clients in identifying suitable templates, designing automation and infrastructure, integrating existing software, meeting security needs, and maintaining documents as client requirements change. The service also includes consultations with legal document automation experts and a dedicated team for ongoing support. Its aim is to save clients time and money and reduce risk during document drafting.

• Automate Document Assembly
  Automates document assembly to help clients produce documents through a consistent, structured process.
• Generate Tailored Documents Quickly
  Lets users independently create documents tailored to their needs and styled to their house standards.
• Generate Documents Securely
  Supports secure document generation within the CC Dr@ft tool and addresses client security requirements.
• Configure Automation For Your Needs
  Uses a solution design process to configure document automation and its supporting infrastructure to suit client requirements.
• Connect Existing Software
  Provides integration advice for connecting CC Dr@ft with existing databases, single sign-on, document management systems and e-signatures.
• Apply Legal Automation Expertise
  Gives clients access to legal document automation consultations and expertise to support solution design.
• Reduce Drafting Risk
  Uses document automation as part of a service designed to reduce risk during document drafting.
• Identify Suitable Templates
  Helps clients determine which document templates are appropriate for automation.
• Access Dedicated Ongoing Support
  Provides a dedicated team to support clients as they use the document automation service.
• Keep Documents Up To Date
  Updates existing documents in response to client-requested changes, supporting continued use of the automation solution.
• Build Stakeholder Support
  Helps clients secure stakeholder support and develop the business case for adopting document automation.

Premium Services

Premium Services give Clifford Chance clients and lawyers privileged, instant access to focused, in-depth and up-to-date legal information and support. Available before, during and between deals, the service offers a global legal knowledge base and resources including daily Alerters, podcasts, publications, toolkits and guides. Users can access resources when and where they need them to support risk management, market awareness, online transaction management and compliance procedures. Resources include the Financial Markets Toolkit, which brings together financial markets knowledge for businesses in one place.

• Access Legal Knowledge Instantly
  Get privileged access to focused, in-depth and up-to-date legal information and support.
• Assess And Manage Risk
  Use focused legal information and support to assess and manage risks more effectively.
• Track Industry Developments
  Receive resources covering the latest industry developments and trends, including daily Alerters, podcasts and publications.
• Use Practical Legal Guides
  Access focused resources including the Financial Markets Toolkit for consolidated financial markets knowledge and the Debt Restructurings Guide for information on restructuring issues across jurisdictions.
• Access Resources When And Where Needed
  Choose when, where and how to tap into the global legal knowledge base, including before, during and between deals.
• Manage Transactions Online
  Use the service’s online resources to manage transactions more effectively.
• Reduce Compliance Time And Uncertainty
  Access legal information and support to take time and uncertainty out of compliance procedures.
• Receive Relevant Email Updates
  Get Alerter updates on developments in areas such as financial services, energy, and communications and media.
• Support Business Growth
  Use the service’s legal information and support to help win more business.