Group Overview
Our global network of over 200 antitrust lawyers covers all the key hubs of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the US, enabling us to support our clients on their most complex and important antitrust matters across the world. Our antitrust teams work together to solve multinational antitrust issues, considering the interplay between different practices and rules, and always mindful of the practical implications antitrust issues may have on our clients' business.
Who you will work with
The work covered by our Antitrust Group includes advice on a broad range of antitrust and sector specific regulatory matters, often with a cross-border dimension. Our Antitrust and Regulatory lawyers work on behalf of our clients on market/sector investigations, enforcement matters and mergers requiring clearance from competition and other regulatory authorities.
We advise on market leading mandates across the full range of contentious and non-contentious domestic and cross border antitrust matters. Our global team obtains clearances for our clients in the world's most challenging merger control proceedings, acts on the most significant dominance cases, and represents clients on complex multi-jurisdictional cartels. We also help our clients to avoid antitrust issues by developing and implementing sophisticated compliance programs, and we are at the forefront of state aid cases in Europe as well as the control of subsidies in the UK.
We continue to be recognised by leading industry bodies for our market leading work. We are ranked as a band one practice in both Chambers and Legal 500. Recent Awards include:
Band 1 for Chambers UK 2024: Competition Law
Band 1 for Legal 500 UK 2024: EU and Competition
Matter of the Year - Global Competition Review Awards 2023
Behavioural Matter of the Year (Europe) - Global Competition Review Awards 2023
Merger Control Matter of the Year (Americas) - Global Competition Review Awards 2023
Matter of the Year: Global Competition Review Awards 2023
Behavioural Matter of the Year: Europe: Global Competition Review Awards 2023
What you will be responsible for
As an Antitrust Lawyer, you will be working across a wide range of sectors including technology, consumer goods and retail, financial services, energy and infrastructure, transport, telecommunications and media.
You will advise on a range of matters, including:
- Merger control: carrying out multi-jurisdictional merger control analysis and preparing merger filings to the relevant authorities, including at the UK and European level.
- Foreign investment control: carrying out multi-jurisdictional FDI analyses, preparing filings and advising on undertakings
- Market investigations / sector enquiries.
- Cartel and abuse of dominance investigations.
- Cooperation, distribution and licensing arrangements.
- Antitrust litigation: appeals from decisions by competition authorities and significant follow on and stand-alone damages actions.
- State Aid and the control of subsidies (including FSR filings).
- Public procurement.
- Developing relationships with clients and actively engaging in business development and thought leadership initiatives and seeking out opportunities for new work.
- Drafting legal documents clearly and concisely, creating solutions using legal knowledge and commercial judgement to advise and support leading multi-national corporates.
Your career experience so far
You will have strong proven working knowledge across all areas of competition law, sector specific regulation and public policy as a mid-level lawyer, probably gained at a city firm, or at an overseas common law practice with a highly regarded profile.
In all cases you will have an outstanding academic history and proven first rate legal skills, combined with a strong reputation amongst existing clients for providing commercial solutions, excellent transactional and managements skills, and be recognised as a lawyer that is sought out by existing clients.
You will naturally be able to demonstrate excellent document drafting skills. You should demonstrate strong communication and analytical skills along with a high level of commercial awareness.
You will need to demonstrate that you can thrive in a team with high professional standards and a flexible client-friendly commercial approach. You will have had strong exposure of collaborating with multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams.
It is crucial that you can demonstrate an appetite for business development, client relationship management and thought leadership.
How we will support you
From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.
- You will be working with a broad range clients and the Firm's other teams and practice areas, not only in London, but across the globe.
- You will have extensive client contact both as part of your daily working routine but will also have the opportunity to develop client contacts.
- You will develop an unbeatable multi-disciplinary skill set as well as client facing skills whilst working with some of the best-known market leaders in their respective practice areas.
- We will provide the opportunity for you to develop as a recognised practitioner in the field.
Who we are
We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.
Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.
Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.
You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.
Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.
Hybrid Working
This role follows our 'balanced' hybrid working approach and as long as business needs allow, you will be supported to work in a hybrid way with the expectation of working from the office for a minimum of 50% of your time.
Equal opportunities statement
At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.
We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.
We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.
Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.
Find out more about our inclusive culture here.