Antitrust Associate

Clifford Chance LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Clifford Chance invites an Antitrust Lawyer to join a leading global team in London. You will handle complex competition matters across technology, consumer goods, financial services, energy and infrastructure, and more.

The role emphasizes cross-border work, compliance programmes, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary colleagues. As a mid-level lawyer, you will develop client relationships, advise on merger control, FDI, and enforcement matters, and contribute to strategic thinking while

Qualifications

• Strong proven knowledge across competition law, sector regulation and public policy.
• Outstanding academic history and proven legal skills.
• Excellent document drafting, communication and analytical abilities.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated appetite for business development and client management.

Responsibilities

• Advise on merger control across multiple jurisdictions, including UK/EU filings.
• Perform multi-jurisdictional FDI analyses and filings.
• Lead cartel and abuse of dominance investigations.
• Draft and review cooperation, distribution and licensing arrangements.
• Engage in antitrust litigation, appeals, and damages actions.
• Contribute to public procurement and subsidies control matters.
• Develop client relationships and participate in thought leadership and new business opportunities.
• Draft legal documents with clarity and commercial judgement for multinational clients.

Skills

Competition law

Regulation

Drafting skills

Client relations

Commercial awareness

Job description

• Address: 10 Upper Bank St Canary Wharf London E14 5JJ
• City: London

Company Description

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating – full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

Job Description

The role

We advise major clients from all key sectors on complex antitrust matters worldwide. We secure clearances in challenging merger control proceedings and represent clients in multi-jurisdictional cartel, market investigation, enforcement, and dominance cases. Our team includes specialists on FDI and FSR matters, as well as CFIUS and trade experts in the US. We work closely with other GPGs to help clients manage cross-border investment issues. We also design compliance programmes advising clients on how to navigate antitrust and regulatory risk. Several team members bring insight from an enforcer's perspective, having previously served as regulators at bodies such as the EU Commission, the US DOJ and FTC, UK CMA, ACCC in Australia and MOFCOM in China.

Who you will work with

We support clients in navigating the world’s antitrust regimes from securing merge approvals and multi-jurisdictional cartel, market investigation, enforcement, and dominance cases, to designing compliance programmes and advising on antitrust and regulatory risk. Our team includes specialists on FDI and FSR matters, with several who have real insight from an enforcer's perspective, having previously served as regulators at bodies such as the EU Commission, the US DOJ and FTC, UK CMA, ACCC in Australia and MOFCOM in China. We work closely with other colleagues in the Trade & Sanctions group to help clients manage cross-border investment issues, as well as Disputes colleagues on antitrust-related investigations and litigation.

What you will be responsible for

As an Antitrust Lawyer, you will be working across a wide range of sectors including technology, consumer goods and retail, financial services, energy and infrastructure, transport, telecommunications and media.

• You will advise on a range of matters, including:
• Merger control: carrying out multi-jurisdictional merger control analysis and preparing merger filings to the relevant authorities, including at the UK and European level.
• Foreign investment control: carrying out multi-jurisdictional FDI analyses, preparing filings and advising on undertakings.
• Cartel and abuse of dominance investigations.
• Cooperation, distribution and licensing arrangements.
• Antitrust litigation: appeals from decisions by competition authorities and significant follow on and stand-alone damages actions.
• State Aid and the control of subsidies (including FSR filings).
• Public procurement.
• Developing relationships with clients and actively engaging in business development and thought leadership initiatives and seeking out opportunities for new work.
• Drafting legal documents clearly and concisely, creating solutions using legal knowledge and commercial judgement to advise and support leading multi-national corporates.
  

Qualifications

Your experience

• You will have strong proven working knowledge across all areas of competition law, sector specific regulation and public policy as a mid-level lawyer, probably gained at a city firm, or at an overseas common law practice with a highly regarded profile.
• In all cases you will have an outstanding academic history and proven first rate legal skills, combined with a strong reputation amongst existing clients for providing commercial solutions, excellent transactional and managements skills, and be recognised as a lawyer that is sought out by existing clients.
• You will naturally be able to demonstrate excellent document drafting skills. You should demonstrate strong communication and analytical skills along with a high level of commercial awareness.
• You will need to demonstrate that you can thrive in a team with high professional standards and a flexible client-friendly commercial approach. You will have had strong exposure of collaborating with multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams.
• It is crucial that you are able to demonstrate an appetite for business development, client relationship management and thought leadership.

Additional Information

How we will support you

From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.

This role follows our 'balanced' hybrid working approach and as long as business needs allow, you will be supported to work in a hybrid way in line with the hybrid working policy.

What we offer including our broad range of benefits and working environment

When you join Clifford Chance, you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life including financial, wellbeing, lifestyle, and family friendly benefits. For more information on what we offer specifically in the UK, please visit our What We Offer page on our career site.

Equal opportunities

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here .