ACT Associate

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is one of the leading international law firms, with a total staff of approximately 5,000 people, working across 27 offices in 16 countries. We provide a comprehensive worldwide service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments.

Our antitrust practice comprises over 265 specialised lawyers (including 50 partners), of 24 different nationalities, in 14 jurisdictions across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East.

Your role

Our Antitrust Competition and Trade lawyers are widely recognised as operating at the forefront of this practice area advising our clients on all types of competition cases around the world, many of which are cross-border or global.

We advise on the complete range of competition, antitrust, regulatory, and trade issues and have a substantial litigation practice, regularly appearing in the European and national courts on EU law, antitrust/competition and trade cases.

This is a chance for a high-calibre associate to join an award-winning and energetic team of true professionals who consistently strive to develop new and imaginative commercial solutions to the issues faced by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer clients.

Key responsibilities

§ Advising clients on a range of competition law and commercial issues

§ Drafting/negotiating transaction or other contract documents

§ Drafting submissions to competition authorities and courts

§ Managing transactions

§ Managing client relationships

§ Actively participating in business development and client events

§ Training/managing trainees/junior lawyers

§ You can expect to receive a wide variety of high quality work from a range of partners, with whom you will work closely.

key requirements

We are seeking experienced and qualified lawyers from all over Europe with first rate technical and commercial abilities and relevant experience in antitrust/competition and trade.

Driven to do high quality work, you will be able to contribute to the wider success of the team either through a proactive involvement in business development and knowledge management and by supervising more junior lawyers/trainees. You have excellent communication skills, are able to take on a high degree of responsibility and manage challenging workload. You should also be proactive and committed in providing an excellent service to our clients.