Gowling - Playbook (Vacation Scheme 2027)

This Gowling Playbook has all the research you need to impress in your application and AC.

This Playbook (2,509 words) covers:

🏢 How Gowling is growing its Real Estate practice
⚡ Energy lawyers and batteries
🌱 Thames mud is good
💼 How Gowling gets work from pensions
🌍 Middle East strategy

Plus, how to use these insights in your application and interview!

Gowling wants Hotel work

Gowling is looking to boost its property practice by capturing all the business that comes from property sales and rentals.

How is it doing this?

• In July, Gowling announced the arrival of partner Imogen Benson and senior counsel Rich Hughes from TLT. Both brought experience in hotel and leisure finance.
• Then, in September, the firm announced its work for HSBC UK on an eight-figure funding package for bus operator Rotala.

Why does this matter?

Think about a hotel. Before lending money to buy it, a bank needs to understand both the building’s value and whether the hotel can earn enough to repay the loan. Who runs it, how it attracts guests and what happens if bookings fall all matter.

Gowling’s July hires suggest it wants more of this financing work. Adding experienced finance lawyers gives the firm more capacity to advise the banks and investors putting money into property businesses.

• 🚌 Rotala shows how this works in practice. The funding helped the bus operator invest in depots and expand its self-storage business. Gowling advised the lender, bringing together banking and property expertise to support the investment while protecting the bank’s position if the borrower struggled to repay.

But there is always risk. Recruiting lawyers adds cost. The investment pays off if Gowling wins enough work and its teams combine their expertise into advice that makes clients’ decisions easier.

⭐ How to use this in your application