To support the continued growth of the practice, our client, a long-established and very highly regarded City firm, is currently looking to hire an Associate to join the Competition department on a permanent basis.
This role is an opportunity for the successful candidate to take on a significant amount of client contact and responsibility, whilst also working in a collaborative environment, to provide advice and assistance to high quality clients across a wide range of matters.
You will also have significant opportunities to contribute to the wider activities of the department, including in relation to Business Development, as well as Learning & Development.
Key Responsibilities:
- While distribution of work will vary from time to time, a Competition Associate will gain experience across the full range of matters which make up the department's practice. Typical work will therefore include the following;
Merger control, national security and foreign investment:
- Advising on UK and EU merger control investigations and coordinating international merger control strategies.
- Advising on the UK National Security & Investment Act and coordinating international foreign direct investment strategies.
- Supporting the firm's Corporate Departments in relation to other competition law, merger control, national security and foreign investment matters arising on their transactions and client work.
Cartel and other investigations:
- Advising clients involved directly in UK and EU cartel and other investigations in relation to alleged anticompetitive conduct.
- Coordinating international competition investigation matters.
- Advising clients involved as interested third parties in cartel investigations, and a wide range of other competition and market investigations.
Litigation:
- Acting for clients in connection with follow-on competition damages litigation before the English courts.
- Advising clients in connection with standalone competition law disputes.
Advisory:
- Supporting clients with a wide range of UK and EU competition law advice on specific matters.
- Providing clients with ongoing competition law training in relation to competition law compliance, dawn raids, and emerging trends relevant to their businesses.
Other areas:
- Advising clients in connection with public procurement and State Aid/UK subsidy control matters.
- Assisting clients with other aspects of economic regulation, including in the utilities sectors.
For a confidential chat about this, or other roles which we are handling, please contact Laura Klass at: laura.klass@jamesonlegal.com
Please note that where a level of preferred experience or qualification is indicated, this is a guideline only and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.Jameson Legal acts as an employment business for temporary recruitment and as an employment agency for fixed term contract and permanent recruitment.
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