An excellent opportunity for an ambitious Antitrust, Competition & Trade Associate or Senior Associate to join one of the largest Competition Teams in Europe at a future facing, international law firm. You can be based in Edinburgh, London or Glasgow.
About the Role
- The Antitrust, Competition and Trade team handles a broad range of high-quality work including EU and UK mergers, competition investigations, competition litigation, behavioural advice and a wide range of regulatory and trade work, including sanctions.
- The team also advises extensively on public procurement matters, state aid and CMA consumer enforcement issues.
We are looking for candidates with a passion for competition and regulatory law and with an interest in working closely with highly rated Technology, Media, Life Sciences and Energy teams where we are seeing a continued increase in competition-related instructions.
Associates are encouraged to take on high levels of responsibility and client contact is encouraged. From day one your role will include business development activities within the team and across the firm's sector groups.
The team undertakes a significant amount of cross-border work, cooperating on a daily basis with our international offices and the role will include travel. We are committed to investing in our team and we provide comprehensive training to develop knowledge and skills.
The ideal candidate will:
- have a solid background and experience/training in UK and EU competition law, a willingness to learn FDI, public procurement, state aid/subsidy and/or trade law and a general desire for a balanced practice across the different areas of transactional, contentious and advisory work,
- 2-6PQE
- have excellent communication and drafting skills - the ability to communicate succinctly is a must
If you are interested in this position, and you meet the requirements of the role, please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Dafydd Marshman for a confidential discussion.
Our advertisements use salary and experience as a guide only. Interlink Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer.
- Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving we are unable to contact applicants who have been unsuccessful.