Overview
A leading international law firm is seeking a Senior Associate to join its growing London Competition Litigation practice.
Driven by sustained client demand and a strong pipeline of contentious antitrust work, the team has expanded significantly over the past 18 months. This role offers an experienced competition litigator the opportunity to assume substantial responsibility within a highly regarded and busy practice.
What You’ll Do
- Lead significant workstreams on complex competition disputes.
- Advise on follow-on damages claims, collective actions and CPO proceedings.
- Handle litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and other courts.
- Work on cartel, abuse of dominance and regulatory enforcement matters.
- Develop case strategy, including settlement approaches and cross-border coordination.
- Engage with economic experts and manage complex evidence.
- Build trusted relationships with sophisticated institutional clients and stakeholders.
- Supervise, mentor and develop junior associates.
- Contribute to business development and the continued growth of the practice.
About You
- Approximately 6–8PQE, with substantial experience in Competition Litigation.
- Strong technical knowledge of UK and EU competition law.
- Training and experience gained within a leading international, US or top-tier UK firm.
- A proven ability to manage major workstreams with appropriate partner oversight.
- Experience of CAT proceedings, collective actions or follow-on damages litigation.
- Excellent drafting, analytical and strategic judgement.
- Confident managing clients, experts, internal teams and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience supervising junior lawyers.
Candidates from claimant-side practices may be considered where they can demonstrate broad, transferable experience, strong technical competition law knowledge and the ability to advise sophisticated institutional clients. General litigators without a genuine Competition Litigation specialism are unlikely to be suitable.
Why Apply?
- Join a highly regarded Competition Litigation platform with sustained momentum.
- Work on sophisticated, high-value contentious antitrust matters.
- Assume meaningful senior responsibility within a growing team.
- Advise an impressive institutional client base.
- Develop experience across major damages claims, collective proceedings and regulatory disputes.
- Benefit from strong progression prospects and opportunities to help shape the practice.
- Complete a focused interview process, most likely comprising two stages, with a possible third meeting where appropriate.
Applications are invited from experienced Competition Litigation lawyers ready to take a leading role in complex, strategically significant disputes.
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