Group Actions and Competition Managing Associate

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 and early involvement in growing the business. 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 dental care for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers
• We support the causes you care about by giving you one day per year off to volunteer with any charity that you are involved with outside of work
• A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical emotional financial and social aspects.
• Most of our roles are hybrid meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.
• We are an equal opportunity organisation committed to having a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of age sex race disability sexual orientation culture or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives.

We are currently seeking an enterprising Managing (Senior) Associate with solid competition litigation and group actions experience (claimant and/or defendant side) to join our Group Actions and Competition team who enjoys leading on cases managing teams and driving forward business development ideas.

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

• Cartel and abuse of dominance claims (Chapter I and Chapter II);
• Preferably experience of the opt-out collective actions regime in the Competition Appeal Tribunal;
• Providing pre-action advice and support to clients in relation to potential competition damages claims and assisting with the identification and development of claim opportunities;
• Preferably some broader experience of mass claims (e.g. securities litigation consumer protection litigation and/or broader ESG focused actions).

The successful candidate must have the experience and competence to manage cases effectively delegating work where appropriate and monitoring expenditure against agreed budgets. They must have excellent client communication skills. They must be willing to participate actively in the teams business development and have the desire and ambition to identify and develop claim opportunities.

Recent awards and recognition for our Group Action and Competition team:

• Recognised in the Global Competition Review 100 - an annual list of the worlds best competition practices.
• The team and/or the Partners are recognised by Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for Competition Law: Private enforcement Group Litigation and EU and competition law.
• Nominated for Most Notable Class or Collective Action at ILFAs Legal Finance Awards.
• Nominated at The British Legal Awards 2025 for Competition/Regulatory team of the year.
• Head of practice Genevieve Quierin is one of the leading competition litigators in the UK. She has been named in this years The Lawyer: Hot 100 and featured in Global Competition Reviews Women in Antitrust.

If you would like a copy of the full job description please reach out to Luke Van Rooyen ().

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm and were committed to creating positive partnerships with our clients. We represent listed and private companies institutions and individuals building lasting relationships to help them succeed in a complex and ever-changing world.

Our focus is on five core sectors: Energy Transition Life Sciences and Healthcare Private Capital and Funds Technology and Transportation and Trade.

With more than 1500 people including 220 partners across ten offices in Europe the Middle East and Asia we combine deep legal capabilities and broad commercial expertise. We have also forged close ties with high quality law firms around the world blending local knowledge with global savvy for clients in over 100 countries.

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.

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