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<blockquote data-quote="Nicole" data-source="post: 876" data-attributes="member: 16">Sidley Austin interview (vacation scheme)Sidley Austin was pretty much a conversation for half an hour with two senior partners. Their questions were quite generic and were based firmly around my understanding of what type of work I would be doing at the firm. They asked me about a recent deal that had interested&nbsp; me, so I focused on a recent acquisition that had taken place with Jim beans being taken over by a Japanese whisky producer. Jim beans were the longstanding client of SA and they asked what sort of departments were involved and how they would have used the international offices to help with the deal. That was all relatively straight forward&nbsp;They do however like to push you a bit further, particularly when it comes to the types of documents you may need to produce as part of this. I think this is where I fell down slightly because for some reason, we got onto the tax element of the deal and why it was so important for most M&amp;A deals and what type of work a trainee would help with in this department. I came up with a few sensible suggestions however I didn’t have a great knowledge about this at the time. They also like the magic circle firms have a fair few questions when it’s comes to banking and finance. I believe they are pretty strong in this areaAfter this part you go for coffee with a trainee and discuss how it went.&nbsp; This is still the interview because they feed back to the partners I believe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nicole, post: 876, member: 16"] Sidley Austin interview (vacation scheme) Sidley Austin was pretty much a conversation for half an hour with two senior partners. Their questions were quite generic and were based firmly around my understanding of what type of work I would be doing at the firm. They asked me about a recent deal that had interested me, so I focused on a recent acquisition that had taken place with Jim beans being taken over by a Japanese whisky producer. Jim beans were the longstanding client of SA and they asked what sort of departments were involved and how they would have used the international offices to help with the deal. That was all relatively straight forward They do however like to push you a bit further, particularly when it comes to the types of documents you may need to produce as part of this. I think this is where I fell down slightly because for some reason, we got onto the tax element of the deal and why it was so important for most M&A deals and what type of work a trainee would help with in this department. I came up with a few sensible suggestions however I didn’t have a great knowledge about this at the time. They also like the magic circle firms have a fair few questions when it’s comes to banking and finance. I believe they are pretty strong in this area After this part you go for coffee with a trainee and discuss how it went. This is still the interview because they feed back to the partners I believe. [/QUOTE]

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