TRAINING AS A SOLICITOR

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1 TRAINING AS A SOLICITOR

2 I 1946, six distiguished lawyers had the VISION to regard the law as a global professio ad the courage to create a firm dedicated to the cocept that legal excellece ca be achieved oly whe lawyers i a firm cooperate i their practice rather tha compete. I so doig, the fouders of Cleary Gottlieb created a eviromet where COLLEGIALITY, TRUST ad RESPECT are the guidig priciples uder which we work all over the world today. Cleary Gottlieb is oe of the leadig iteratioal law firms, with 16 CLOSELY INTEGRATED OFFICES located i major fiacial ad political cetres aroud the world.

3 Recet Achievemets ad Awards Our cliets call o us whe simple solutios will ot do. We represet multiatioal corporatios, iteratioal fiacial istitutios, private equity fuds, sovereig govermets ad their agecies, as well as domestic corporatios ad fiacial istitutios. Curret otable achievemets ad awards iclude: Americas Law Firm of the Year Iteratioal Fiacial Law Review, 2015 Russia Law Firm of the Year Iteratioal Fiacial Law Review, ; Cleary has wo six times sice the award s iceptio i 2003 South Korea Iteratioal Firm of the Year Chambers Asia, 2013 ad 2015 Top 10 Iovative Law Firm Fiacial Times US Iovative Lawyers Report, Top 20 Global Firm Law360, Global 20 List of Preemiet Global Law Firms, Global Elite Firm Legal Busiess, Global 100, ; Every year sice the list s iceptio Law Firm of the Year Legal Busiess, 2013 Best Law Firm i Lati America LatiFiace, Most Iovative US Law Firm i Europe Iteratioal Fiacial Law Review, 2013 Debt Equity, M&A, ad Restructurig Teams of the Year Iteratioal Fiacial Law Review, 2015 Competitio Team of the Year Legal Busiess, 2015 Best Legal Adviser, North America Global Fiace, 2015 GAR20 Firm Global Arbitratio Review s Top Arbitratio Firms Worldwide, All-Star Firm for Ivestmet Fuds The Asia Lawyer, 2014 Bakruptcy, M&A, ad Project Fiace Practice Groups of the Year Law360, 2014 Litigatio Firm of the Year LegalCommuity, 2014 Bakig, Real Estate, Securities, ad Tax Practice Groups of the Year Law360, 2013 Competitio Atitrust Firm of the Year Chambers Global, 2013

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5 What Differetiates Cleary Gottlieb? Our Culture. Nothig defies Cleary Gottlieb more tha its culture. Ad o oe has better described what it is like to work here tha seior cousel Steve Shale: We promote a iteral commuity, rather tha iteral competitio. Ad we ecourage team-midedess rather tha self-aggradizemet. I sum, Cleary Gottlieb has sustaied a culture where meetig the eeds of our cliets is paramout. Oe Firm. We are orgaised as a sigle, itegrated global partership. All lawyers, icludig parters, share i firm icome solely o the basis of seiority, regardless of the coutry i which they are based or the area of law that they practice. As a result, they have a commo iterest i the overall success of the firm. This oe firm approach to practise offers cliets of ay office the ability to access the full resources of all our offices ad lawyers worldwide. Quality Cliets. Our cliets iclude multiatioal corporatios (ArcelorMittal, Coca-Cola, Soy Corporatio ad Google), iteratioal fiacial istitutios (Citigroup, Goldma Sachs, Bak of America), private equity fuds (TPG Capital, First Reserve, Hellma & Friedma), sovereig govermets (Helleic Republic, Republic of Argetia, Republic of Iraq, Russia Federatio) ad sovereig wealth fuds, as well as domestic corporatios ad fiacial istitutios. Iteratioal Structure. We are a truly global law firm. We do ot have satellite offices, but operate as a first-tier provider of legal services i all coutries i which we establish a office (ad i may where we do ot). While we actively ecourage our lawyers to sped time i multiple offices of the firm (ad more tha oe-third of our 193 parters have served i two or more of the firm s offices), our busiess model is built primarily o the practice of local law i local jurisdictios by local lawyers. We employ approximately 1,200 lawyers from more tha 50 coutries ad diverse backgrouds who are admitted to practice i multiple jurisdictios worldwide. Multi-specialist. We ecourage our lawyers to maitai a broad-based practice, ad to work o a wide variety of commercial ad fiacial matters. We firmly believe that this multispecialist approach esures that our lawyers have a deep uderstadig of the ways i which all aspects of a trasactio fit together. This ability to see the big picture eables a degree of creativity ad iovatio that ca be lost through over-specialisatio. Orgaic Growth. The firm is dedicated to expadig its practice through iteral growth, ad whe we recruit at ay level we are lookig for the future leaders of our firm. Approximately 90% of our curret parters joied the firm as associates. We hope that all of our traiees i Hog Kog will joi us as associates o qualificatio. TRAINING AS A SOLICITOR 5

6 Our Hog Kog Practice History. Cleary Gottlieb has had a active presece i Asia for over 35 years, begiig with the opeig of our Hog Kog office i 1980, followed by the opeig of our Beijig office i 2006 ad our Seoul office i As oe of the first U.S. law firms to establish a office i Asia, we have stregtheed our commitmet to the regio over the years. I 2011, the Hog Kog law practice was lauched, addig first-class Hog Kog law capability to our broad-based corporate trasactioal practice. Our Hog Kog law matters curretly iclude sigificat public ad private M&A ad private equity trasactios, as well as IPOs ad other Hog Kog capital markets trasactios. Profile. Chambers Asia has amed Cleary Gottlieb a leadig firm i Chia ad Asia for capital markets, M&A ad private equity as well as a leadig firm i South Korea, Idia ad the Philippies. I additio, our lawyers i Asia have bee distiguished as leaders i capital markets, M&A ad private equity for Chia ad as leadig lawyers for South Korea, Idia ad the Philippies by Chambers Asia. The firm has wo umerous awards for deals ivolvig Asia-based compaies from publicatios icludig The Asia Lawyer, Chia Busiess Law Joural, Iteratioal Fiacig Review, FiaceAsia, Iteratioal Fiacial Law Review, Asia Legal Busiess ad Asia-Mea Cousel Magazie. Our work i the private equity idustry was recogized i 2014 whe we were amed the All-Star Firm for Ivestmet Fuds by The Asia Lawyer. Core Practice Groups. Our core practice groups i Hog Kog are mergers ad acquisitios (M&A), private equity, capital markets, fud formatio, atitrust ad compliace, restructurig ad sovereig debt matters. 6 CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON (HONG KONG)

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8 Our Vacatio Schemes Vacatio Schemes. We offer a four week vacatio programme for law udergraduates or JD studets who are i their peultimate year of study, or to those cadidates who are seekig a traiig cotract commecig 2 years after the placemet. We geerally recruit our traiees from those who have completed our Vacatio Schemes. The Vacatio Scheme aims to provide potetial traiee applicats with a practical isight ito life as a Cleary Gottlieb lawyer, ad our aim throughout the scheme is to ivolve participats directly i cliet work. There are also a umber of orgaised social evets throughout the scheme so that participats ca get to kow the curret parters, associates ad traiees of the firm outside the office. Your Qualities. We seek idividuals who are cofidet i their abilities, creative i their thikig ad who are ethusiastic about the practice of law i a challegig ad dyamic iteratioal settig. We ormally expect cadidates to have demostrated the ability to attai a high 2.1 (or equivalet) degree from a leadig uiversity i a commo law jurisdictio. I additio, we expect successful cadidates to be fluet i Eglish as well as Madari. Catoese skills are desirable but ot ecessary. We are lookig for cadidates havig ot oly the ecessary academic qualificatios, but also the ability to work i a team with colleagues ad cliets i a professioal ad covivial way. How to Apply. We offer summer placemets i Jue, July ad August; ad a witer placemet i December or Jauary. To apply for our Vacatio Scheme, please sed us a cover letter, your academic trascript ad CV idicatig your laguage skills to our recruitmet maager at HK-HR@cgsh.com. Applicatio Deadlies. Summer 2016 Vacatio Scheme: Jauary 31, Participats i the placemets i Jue, July ad August 2016 will be cosidered for 2017 traiig cotracts. Witer 2016/17 Vacatio Scheme: August 15, Participats i the placemets i December 2016 ad Jauary 2017 will be cosidered for 2018 traiig cotracts. Named a Employer of Choice Asia Legal Busiess, 2012 (Hog Kog) 8 CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON (HONG KONG)

9 Our Traiig Cotracts Traiig Cotracts. We expect to recruit 2 3 traiees to joi us aually. Our traiees will sped 6 moths i four differet seats. Uder the supervisio ad guidace of parters ad associates, you will get ivolved i a broad variety of cliet work. Durig this time, you may have the opportuity to take part i a iteratioal placemet i our Lodo office, just as Lodo traiees have the opportuity to sped oe of their seats i Hog Kog. If you are iterested i a positio as a traiee solicitor, the you should first complete our Vacatio Scheme. It is our geeral firm policy to recruit our traiees from cadidates who have participated i our Vacatio Schemes. Fudig. We fud the Postgraduate Certificate i Laws (PCLL) for all our future traiee solicitors. We also fud the PCLL Coversio Examiatios for those graduates without a Hog Kog LLB or JD. We will also provide a maiteace grat for this period of study. Salary. We offer a market-leadig salary ad beefits package that reflects the premium ature of our practice. Professioal Freedom, Seior Guidace. You will receive more tha a hadshake ad a orietatio package whe you arrive at Cleary Gottlieb. You will start a relatioship with a assiged metor, a experieced lawyer who ca guide you through professioal ad persoal life at the firm. Eve more importat is the day-to-day metorig you will receive workig with seior lawyers, advisig cliets ad participatig i firm life. Lawyers i Cleary s offices take the time to help each other i meetigs, at luch, i the hallways. Our approach to metorig is oe that comes full circle: we guide your career ahead, ad i tur, evetually you will help ew associates advace their careers. Legal Educatio. Our Hog Kog office rus regular i-house CPD traiig coverig the major practice areas of work i Asia. This traiig is delivered by parters ad seior lawyers i Hog Kog ad Beijig. We will also arrage traiig, o a ad hoc basis, to be give by outside experts, ad other specialists, o both pure law topics ad also busiess skills traiig (such as time/project maagemet ad commuicatio skills). I additio, iformal traiig takes place at the regular practice group meetigs i Hog Kog ad Beijig, where practical issues from recet trasactios are cosidered ad discussed. TRAINING AS A SOLICITOR 9

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11 Your Career at Cleary Gottlieb ad Beyod We hope that all of our recruits will sped their careers with us. However, we uderstad that a law firm job ca provide the traiig that sprigboards you to a career i a etirely differet field. From academia to ivestmet bakig to ot-for-profit work. So we ll talk opely with you about the possibilities iside ad outside Cleary Gottlieb. But we ll do more tha help you assess your optios we ll help you reach your goals. If the path you choose poits to a log-term career at Cleary Gottlieb, we ll provide the traiig ad metorig to make you a strog cadidate for seior attorey, cousel or parter. If you decide to look outside Cleary Gottlieb, we ll help you build a resume that ca lead to the right opportuity. What s more, we have a impressive etwork of alumi ad cliets who regularly call us to fill positios i their orgaisatios. I short, we are lookig for attoreys who ca excel i the law as well as i busiess, academia ad beyod. That s why for more tha 65 years, Cleary Gottlieb has bee turig out fie lawyers ad fie leaders. Our etwork of stellar alumi is amog our proudest achievemets. The rage of impressive positios that our alumi hold reflects both the quality of Cleary Gottlieb legal traiig ad the diverse iterests of our lawyers. We cout amog our alumi: 20 judges, icludig a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court More tha 440 ivestmet bakig ad fiace executives More tha 50 hedge fud ad private equity executives 185 geeral cousel ad seior officers at Fortue 500 compaies 200 law professors 6 published fictio authors 55 officials at itergovermetal orgaizatios 45 fouders or curret directors of ot-for-profits Artists ad writers ad 1 professioal rapper! TRAINING AS A SOLICITOR 11

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