Lawyers
Creating exceptional results with clients around the world
Change is here.
And it's radical.
We may operate across more than 40 countries, but we're still locally connected. We take on complex challenges and create exceptional results with high-profile clients around the world.
The new establishment.
Change is here. And it’s radical.
The establishment is being disestablished.
The gig economy. AI. Automation.
Business is changing.
Clients want more than legal services.
They want strategic business partners. Who cross borders. People with ideas. Global insights. Local savvy.
Wherever you do business, we’re here to help you succeed.
DLA Piper. Everywhere you are.
Our practice areas
Global reach,
local focus
Corporate
From mergers and acquisitions to private equity and public offerings, our corporate lawyers help clients through every stage of the deal. Join us today and build an exciting career that crosses borders and languages with the best people by your side.
Employment
When it comes to workforce challenges and pension law, our employment team have the necessary experience and know-how. They partner with clients to manage risk and drive consistency across multiple locations. If you want to help design the workforce of the future, join DLA Piper today and build a career without horizons.
Finance
Our international Finance group encompasses our Finance, Projects and Restructuring practices. We assist clients to realise their finance and investment strategies within the commercial, legal and political environment of the host country/s in which they are operating.
Intellectual Property and Technology
In Intellectual Property & Technology, we represent multinationals and start-ups alike. As a member of our team you could be assisting a client to manage their global trademark portfolio.
Litigation and Regulatory
As one of the largest practices in the world, DLA Piper’s network of regulatory, compliance and disputes lawyers across more than 40 countries provides unrivalled multi-jurisdictional coverage and experience for our clients.
Real Estate
Our team specialises in the entire lifecycle of client investments. Work with us and you’ll be partnering with a wide range of clients, advising them on every aspect of their real estate investments from planning and financing, to development and disposals.
Tax
Join us in Tax for a career with an international perspective. We work closely with clients both internationally and locally, providing international tax services as well as the detail of national legislation and treaties.
Our sectors
Bring your skills where they’ll go further
Our practice groups drive our business forward and we’re always looking for new frontiers to help clients unlock potential in. That’s why we’re able to make an impact beyond the borders of traditional law. See where your skills could take you.
Consumer Goods, Food and Retail
We advise well known consumer goods, food and beverage and retail and fashion companies across the globe. Our guidance covers issues from complex supply chain issues to ESG. Clients come to us because we offer innovative solutions and practical methods to manage the legal and commercial demands of their business.
Energy and
Natural Resources
We understand the fresh challenges our sector faces every day. We advise clients who are looking for new technologies, innovative ways of doing business, efficiencies and market breakthroughs to reshape their businesses and shift to a more sustainable future.
Industrials
We advise clients in sectors including manufacturing, automotive, chemicals, aerospace and defence. These are sectors in change, impacted by global economic uncertainty and geopolitical instability, but also internal sectoral developments like automation and disruptive business models. We help businesses succeed amidst disruptive forces presenting both challenges and opportunities.
Investment Management
and Funds
Our Investment Management and Funds team closes over 2,000 fund investments for the world’s leading investors in investment funds. Our global team of lawyers and business advisory professionals work across key jurisdiction across the US, EMEA, and APAC to guide clients through every stage of the investment fund lifecycle.
Financial
Services
Our multi-disciplinary team advises clients in large, complex banking and commercial transactions. We represent financial institutions in litigation before courts and tribunals around the world, and our international lawyers specialise in regulatory, public policy and enforcement areas.
Insurance
With over 400 lawyers globally, we help major (re)insurers, (re)insurance intermediaries, and other sector clients on complex claims, transactional, regulatory, and commercial matters.
Life
Sciences
We offer subject matter knowledge combined with considerable understanding of the life sciences sector, including the regulatory, commercial and enforcement environments faced by our biopharmaceutical, medical device, research and diagnostics clients.
Media, Sport and Entertainment
Forward thinking and client-centric, we advise all types of media, sport and entertainment companies. We guide them through an ever-evolving landscape of M&A, regulatory, corporate, financing, transactional and other business activities to help them succeed in a dynamic market.
Real
Estate
We work with leading investors and developers around the world, advising on everything from fund structuring to major regeneration schemes. Our deep experience ensures we understand every aspect of the industry and are distinctively positioned to help clients achieve their business objectives.
Technology
Our Technology group handles corporate transactions ranging from emerging growth and venture capital to M&A, private equity and capital markets for a range of clients. We advise on IP issues including technology transfers, licensing and distribution, outsourcing, privacy and government contracts.
Early Careers
The first step in your career is one of the most important. When you join DLA Piper as a student or graduate, we don’t put limits on what you can achieve here and that starts from day one.
Paralegals
Our paralegal teams are transforming how we deliver legal solutions. If you want to build a career where you’re constantly finding new ways to unlock potential, discover what we do.
Talent Community
Staying in touch with like-minded people is important to us. Our Talent Community provides unique access to our firm so you can discover why we are a different kind of law firm.