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Our International Competition/Antitrust group’s workload has continued to grow and they are seeking to further expand the existing team by hiring an additional associate, with a minimum of 2 years and maximum of 4 years post qualification experience, to join the team based in London. The following criteria is essential:
- Recent London market experience from a renowned internationally focused competition team (non-contentious workflow).
- Experience in merger control (UK and EU) and foreign investment matters, including running and coordinating multi-jurisdictional filing processes.
- Experience in obtaining merger control approvals before both the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
- Previous exposure to working with financial institutions, PE/funds and/or tech/digital and/or energy company clients.
- Strong experience in M&A transactions and/or restructurings.
- Previous exposure to FDI work desirable, but not essential.
We are looking for someone with a self-starter mentality, with the desire to continuously develop.
Strong academics needed, with additional post-graduate competition/antitrust studies preferred.
Candidates must be fluent in English and demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills. |
The EU/UK competition law team advises leading financial institutions and multinationals in complex behavioural, state aid, multi-jurisdictional merger control, foreign investment/national security and litigation cases across industries globally. The team is led by partners Davina Garrod and Scott Pettifor with 4 counsels, 2 associates and 2 research analysts.
Robust cross-border transactional antitrust capabilities led from London: The competition team in London is the firm’s hub for all international (ex-U.S.) antitrust and foreign investment/national security expertise. All cross-border investigations and transactions giving rise to antitrust/competition issues and approvals are handled by the team. The team is known for leading and coordinating international antitrust and merger control investigations, across the full spectrum of transactions, including complex restructurings, M&A, joint ventures (JVs), and strategic, suggestivist and activist investments.
We advise clients before the European Commission and other EU institutions, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Investment Security Unit (ISU) and other UK government departments, Office of Communications (OFCOM), Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM) and the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), as well as litigating before the European and U.K. courts.
The London team is supported by a network of Akin competition lawyers located in the key business centres throughout the U.S., Europe, China, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and Asia, working closely where appropriate with associated firms throughout Africa and LatAm.
A strong London presence underpins the firm’s leading competition law practice, with London being a global financial centre, the seat of a leading competition authority (the CMA has continued its post-Brexit rise to prominence) and the London courts being the forum of choice for an increasing number of competition law damages claims in the EU.
We also provide strategic, regulatory advice across a wide number of industries, including, inter alia, technology/digital markets (including on the designated market area (DMA)), financial services, energy, aviation, industrial, chemicals, and life sciences. |
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's employment practices actively promote equal opportunities throughout the Firm and its employees are selected and recruited by merit in relation to the job to be performed, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief.
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