Associate Non-Contentious - Group Actions and Competition

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We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you The Deal between the firm and its employees.

You can expect:

• A Competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies
• Life assurance private health and cental care for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers
• Tech cycle and electric car schemes
• The opportunity to support the firms charity through volunteering leave
• A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health and tools and support for when we experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical emotional financial and social aspects.

We are currently seeking an enterprising Associate with extensive UK and EU competition law experience to join our Competition team who enjoys leading on cases and driving forward business development ideas.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in the areas set out below:

• Merger control and foreign direct investment rules (especially the National Security and Investment Act);
• Cartel and abuse of dominance investigations;
• Dawn raids and competition law compliance;
• Market studies and investigations; and
• State aid and subsidy control including the EU Foreign Subsidy Regulation (ideally but not a requirement)

Furthermore the perfect candidate will be interested in or have worked in CMA consumer protection cases. We see consumer protection as an area of great expansion in the competition world and are looking for an ambitious associate to help us grow this area of the practice.

With 8 offices worldwide and with our headquarters based in London Stephenson Harwood is a law firm where our people are committed to achieving the goals of our clients listed and private companies institutions and individuals across the globe. Our mix of expertise and culture results in a combination of deep local insight and the capability to provide a seamless international service.

Our experience encompasses corporate commercial litigation and arbitration employment pensions and private wealth finance marine and international trade and real estate and projects.

We assemble teams of bright thinkers to match our clients needs and give the right advice from the right person at the right time. Dedicating the highest calibre of legal talent to overcome the most complex issues we deliver pragmatic expert advice that is set squarely in the real world.

We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.

Our values:

Individuality We encourage creativity and develop talent

Commitment To be the best and deliver the highest standard

Teamwork We work together to build close longterm relationships

Straight talking We say what we mean and do what we say

These values express the personality of the individuals within our firm. They are the behaviours we encourage in our people and the standards which inform our decisions and actions.

Our vision into 2026

To be a successful firm where talented people work together in an entrepreneurial environment building long term client relationships.

This vision is about who we want to be as well as who we are. It is as much about our values as about our character the attributes we want to see from all of our people. Thats how we unlock our entrepreneurial spirit advising our clients with top performing teams.

A key part of the 2026 strategy is to focus on five core sectors: energy transition; life sciences and healthcare; private capital and funds; technology; transportation and trade. These have been identified as crucial in the drive for accelerated profitable growth.