
Advice To My Younger Self
Starting out as a Capital Markets attorney and transitioning into the Litigation department three years later, associate* Montse Ferrer has travelled an adventurous, nomadic path across four international offices. She credits a positive attitude and the willingness to change as catalysts for creating opportunity.
I joined the New York office as a summer clerk in 2008 and started practicing in 2010, shortly after the peak of the global financial crisis. I was interested in arbitration and litigation, but the only position available at the time was in capital markets. While it felt like a setback, it turned out to be just the opposite:
it allowed me to discover the firm as a vessel for my professional adventure.