Trainee Associate

Would you like to join one of the world’s most prestigious law firms? In addition to its highly regarded Competition practice, the firm has extensive Corporate, Financial Institutions, Commercial and Financing practices. It also has strong practices in Financial Regulation, Technology, Digital, Data and IP, Tax, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution and Pensions, Employment and Incentives. Much of the work spans the globe, with transactions involving our overseas offices as well as leading independent law firms in many other jurisdictions. Our Competition practice in London is led by 7 partners, supported by 3 Senior Counsel, and currently has 70 associates and 18 trainees. The practice has a reputation for being one of the world’s leading, ‘go-to’ competition law practices, and our associates have regular involvement in much of the leading-edge work in this space. the European and international merger control aspects of major deals (such as Facebook’s acquisition of Kustomer and IAG’s acquisition of Air Europa); and multijurisdictional follow-on litigation. The Group handles a variety of work types across the competition and regulatory fields. As a general guide, we would expect about 50% of your workload to relate to merger control matters, with the remaining 50% comprising a mixture of cartel investigations, abuse of dominance matters, state aid, public procurement, regulatory and other contentious matters. Depending on the scale and complexity of any given project, you may find yourself operating as the single associate on a matter or working as part of a larger team. for example, our Competition associates regularly work alongside Corporate, Disputes and Investigations and Intellectual Property lawyers, providing clients with unparalleled integration when it comes to legal advice. With the Competition Group operating out of our London, Brussels and Hong Kong offices, there are often both international and domestic client secondment opportunities available to associates, all of whom are encouraged to spend time working at one of our other offices at the appropriate time. Advising on a range of competition law and commercial issues Drafting, reviewing and amending the legal and commercial aspects of documentation Managing/supervising the work of others including trainees First rate legal/commercial knowledge Strong academic background and a demonstrable high level of intellectual analysis Exposure across a range of high value commercial and corporate transactions or similar (e.