Mayer Brown - Playbook (2028 TC)

Want to get a TC at Mayer Brown? Our Playbook gives you all the insights you need to impress!

This Playbook covers:

🧠 Practice Area Strategy
🌍 Office and Growth
📊 Financial Performance
💼 Top Clients and Deals
🔎 How to Stand Out

Deadline: 31 March

🧠 Practice Area Strategy

In short: Mayer Brown's London and global strategy revolves around five priority practice areas, each backed by aggressive lateral hiring, rising rankings, and huge client deals.

💡 Below is your cheat sheet: the five areas that matter most, why they matter, and exactly what to say in an application or interview to impress.

1. 🏦 Banking and Finance - the top practice

What's happening: This is Mayer Brown's strongest practice, globally and in London. The firm is the #1 most active law firm for securitisation in the US (that is, helping clients package loans and other assets into tradeable securities, 121 deals worth $93.2 billion in 2024). It holds top-tier rankings in asset-based lending (Tier 1, Legal 500, for 12 consecutive years) and trade finance.

• They are boosting this practice area: In September 2025, David Miles and Philip Butler joined from Dechert, where they co-headed Global Leveraged Finance (lending used to fund acquisitions, typically for private equity buyers). Kevin Ng joined from White & Case in May 2025 as one of the City's leading corporate trustee specialists.

Why it matters: Private credit (lending by non-bank institutions like investment funds, rather than traditional banks) has exploded as an asset class. Banks are increasingly sharing deal flow with these alternative lenders, creating demand for lawyers who understand both traditional bank lending and newer structures like buy-now-pay-later securitisation and sustainability-linked facilities. Mayer Brown's ability to act on both sides of this market, advising both lenders and the companies raising finance, gives it a structural advantage. The banking stress of 2023 (the collapses of SVB, Signature Bank, and Credit Suisse) also drove regulatory complexity and restructuring demand, further fuelling the practice.

💡 What to say: "Mayer Brown's work advising the lender syndicate on EUR 3.2 billion of financing for KKR's BNPL receivables portfolio stood out to me because it sits at the intersection of two major trends: the growth of private credit and the rise of fintech lending models. The fact that the firm simultaneously holds the #1 ranking for US securitisation and Tier 1 in UK asset-based lending tells me it can genuinely serve clients across the full capital structure."

2.⚡ Energy and Infrastructure - the growth area