Coordinator, Business Development

Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions, and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

Position Summary

The Business Development (BD) Coordinator is an integral part of our global Business Development, Marketing and Knowledge (BDM&K) Team function. This centralized team works across our practice groups, industry groups and client account teams to provide the very best support for the BD activities and initiatives these groups undertake to realize their commercial and marketing goals.

The BD Coordinator team will be highly trained in all aspects of our market-leading BD processes and systems and will be responsible for globally consistent, high-quality output to ensure rapid and successful execution of their part in our BD initiatives.

Our Business Development, Marketing & Knowledge Team

Our Business Development, Marketing and Knowledge (BDM&K) Team is at the forefront of our Firm realizing its 2025 vision of profitable growth, engaged people and outstanding client relationships.

We are committed to growing and developing relationships with some of the world's most respected and well-established institutions and businesses, as well as startups, governments and state-owned entities. What unites our global team is our focus on understanding our clients’ businesses, priorities and ambitions and proactively anticipating challenges as well as opportunities. With a keen understanding of the commercial drivers influencing both our sector, as well as that of our clients, we draw on the Firm’s history of pioneering work and agile problem solving to navigate the complex environments in which we operate.

Along with colleagues across the world, especially those in our communications and creative teams, we work together to deliver significant growth across a core group of large client accounts, both in terms of global revenue and breadth of relationships. We know how to bring the best of the Firm's global experience, local insight, practice expertise and industry knowledge to our clients.

Our team members share an international outlook, and are collaborative and energetic. You will be joining both a high performing but also highly collegiate team and can expect to contribute to projects on a projects and initiatives with global impact from Day 1.

Duties and Accountabilities1

Our team of Business Development Coordinators will primarily support the Global Business Development team-members across the network (as well as some regional/global support in English language with the responsibilities of the role) including, but not limited to: 

• Liaise with regional Business Development Managers to scope out their requirements from the team and act as a gateway between them and the Coordinator support base
• Assisting with matter research, lawyer biographies and other content preparation needed to support pitches, proposals, capability statements and other client presentations and seminar materials
• Updating and maintaining our matters database in our global Matter Profiling System
• Assisting with creation and maintenance o