Associate: Antitrust

Job Description - Associate: Antitrust (240000GC)

Associate: Antitrust Associate: Antitrust The opportunity

Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Antitrust Practice in our Sydney office?

As an Associate, you will apply good judgment and excellent analytical skills to your work. Highly organised and self-motivated, you’ll be a team player with a strong professional presence and client focus.

With experience in competition law and regulatory matters across a range of sectors, you will be joining a growing team with fantastic career progression opportunities. Our worldwide team of competition law professionals provides clients with a truly coordinated approach to the most challenging global competition issues in virtually all jurisdictions across the world.

Recognised by Global Competition Review as one of the world's top competition practices we are one of the few competition teams situated across five continents. White & Case’s global antitrust practice has been privileged to handle some of the most complex multijurisdictional competition matters of recent times.

At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our diverse, international team from day one. We foster a collegial working environment where partners are friendly and accessible, and colleagues always supportive and open to questions. 

Key responsibilities

• Undertaking merger analysis and preparing associated submissions/applications in Australia and across the APAC region.

• Advising on the competition law implications and structuring of joint ventures and other alliances.

• Advising clients on all aspects of competition and consumer law matters, including cartel conduct, misuse of market power, anti-competitive arrangements, misleading and deceptive, unconscionable conduct, and other consumer protection matters.

• Responding to ACCC investigations across all competition and consumer related matters.

• Advising on access regimes and regulation of monopoly infrastructure.

• Advising on and obtaining clearance for foreign investment.

• Contributing to the growth and development of the practice. 

The skills and attributes we are looking for

• PQE 2-4 years of competition law experience in private practice or with a regulator
• Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative and analytical thinker
• Outstanding communication skills - written and verbal.
• Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when working across multiple projects.
• Client service focus and commercial awareness
• Team player
• Strong judgment

What we offer

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

Since our arrival in Australia in 2016, our Australian practice has grown to 34 partners and 100+ lawyers across Sydney and Melbourne. Our teams work with clients in every state of Australia, across the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe on all aspects of the energy, infrastructure, power (including renewable energy) mining & metals sectors, and on high-profile public market and private equity M&A transactions.

How to apply

Interested? Please apply by submitting your CV for further consideration.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from all ages, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, genders, sexual orientations, as well as people who have family or carer responsibilities. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

For further assistance or queries regarding this opportunity please reach out to Lauren Evans at lauren.evans@whitecase.com

Note to recruitment agencies: Our internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction. Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the APAC Recruitment team. When engaging with agencies, we are supported by our preferred suppliers. 
Primary Location

Primary Location : Australia-Sydney

Expected Workplace : Hybrid

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