Managing Associate (Non-Contentious) Group Actions and Competition

Stephenson Harwood LLP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm in Greater London is seeking a Managing Associate with extensive UK and EU competition law experience. You'll lead on cases involving merger control, cartel investigations, and more, while contributing to business development initiatives. The firm promotes a hybrid working model and values diversity in its workforce. Join an ambitious team that focuses on major sectors like Energy Transition and Technology, while enjoying a range of family-friendly policies and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Life assurance

Private health and dental care

Flexible benefits including gym discounts

Volunteer day off

Wellbeing strategy support

Qualifications

• Extensive UK and EU competition law experience is essential.
• Experience in driving business development ideas.
• Interest in CMA consumer protection cases would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead on competition law cases.
• Drive business development ideas within the Competition team.
• Contribute to the growth of consumer protection practices.

Skills

Merger control

Cartel investigations

Dawn raids compliance

Market studies

Consumer protection

Job description

What we will offer

We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you The Deal between the firm and its employees.

You can expect

• A competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies
• Life assurance private health and dental care for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers
• We support the causes you care about by giving you one day per year off to volunteer with any charity that you are involved with outside of work
• A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars : physical emotional financial and social aspects.
• Most of our roles are hybrid meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.
• We are an equal opportunity organisation committed to having a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of age sex race disability sexual orientation culture or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives.

Team Structure

We are currently seeking an enterprising Managing Associate with extensive UK and EU competition law experience to join our Competition team who enjoys leading on cases and driving forward business development ideas.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in the areas set out below :

• Merger control and foreign direct investment rules (especially the National Security and Investment Act)
• Cartel and abuse of dominance investigations
• Dawn raids and competition law compliance
• Market studies and investigations
• State aid and subsidy control including the EU Foreign Subsidy Regulation (ideally but not a requirement)

Furthermore the perfect candidate will be interested in or have worked in CMA consumer protection cases. We see consumer protection as an area of great expansion in the competition world and are looking for an ambitious lawyer to help us grow this area of the practice.

About the Firm

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm and were committed to creating positive partnerships with our clients. We represent listed and private companies institutions and individuals building lasting relationships to help them succeed in a complex and ever-changing world.

Our focus is on five core sectors : Energy Transition Life Sciences and Healthcare Private Capital and Funds Technology and Transportation and Trade.

With more than 1500 people including 220 partners across ten offices in Europe the Middle East and Asia we combine deep legal capabilities and broad commercial expertise. We have also forged close ties with high quality law firms around the world blending local knowledge with global savvy for clients in over 100 countries.

We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.

• 220 PARTNERS
• 10 OFFICES
• 45 LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY OUR PEOPLE

Offices in Al Khobar Athens Dubai Hong Kong London Paris Riyadh Seoul Shanghai Singapore and associated office in Guangzhou .

Our brand strengths

GO FAR GO TOGETHER

EXPERTS IN MORE THAN LAW

CAN DO PERSONALITIES

ALWAYS READY

Required Experience

IC

Key Skills

Abinitio,Defense,General Employment,Marine Services,Data Analysis,Architecture

Employment Type

Unclear

Experience

years

Vacancy

1