Competition Litigation Senior Associate (6+PQE)

Competition Litigation, Group action, tribunal, senior associate, 6+PQE


The Opportunity
This specialist litigation firm are looking for a senior associate to join their competition department. The firm specialises in collective actions either as representative actions using CPR 19.6, group litigation orders or collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. They undertake these cases across a wide spectrum of causes of action such as competition law, consumer law and data privacy breaches. The work and cases that the firm are currently undertaking is right at the forefront of the UK's developing class action regime. They focus solely on claimant litigation. They are currently involved in the VW and Mercedes 'dieselgate' emissions claims and are in the process of launching a number of other collective actions.

The Role
They are looking for someone to join a small specialist team in order to assist in running their collective actions. As well as being involved in all aspects of the case from correspondence to strategy you will also be involved in business development and funding activities as they continue to develop more cases. This is an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of developing and bringing cases in some of the most rapidly developing areas of law.

The Ideal Candidate

• Have strong academics
• Have a minimum of 5 years' experience as a litigator ideally with some competition experience or experience of collective actions
• Have experience working on and managing complex litigation
• Be entrepreneurial and interested in finding and building claims

They do not require candidates to have specific knowledge of competition law or class actions and representative actions, but they do expect candidates to be willing to learn and be interested in being involved in a new and rapidly developing area of the law.

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