
Ex-City lawyer moves to the trading floor of UBS
Emma qualified into the private equity / investment banking group at Clifford Chance, where she worked for two and a half years. Despite enjoying her job and liking the firm, she moved in 2005 to do “merger arbitrage” equity sales at UBS. We asked her why she made this change and how she finds life on the trading floor compared to being a lawyer. mtl: Hi Emma, please can you tell us about your legal background? Emma: Although I studied law, I didn’t originally intend to p