We are looking to recruit an associate to join the competition team within the Brussels office. Ashurst is recognised as having one of the leading competition practices in Europe, with top-ranked advisers throughout our teams in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm and Paris.
Our multilingual network has a strong track record of providing high quality advice and achieving successful outcomes for clients engaged in a full range of matters, including mergers and anti-trust investigations.
The successful candidate will join a team that has extensive experience in complex EC merger work, including second stage investigations by the Commission and appeals before the European Courts.
Since EC competition law was modernised and decentralised in 2004, close relationships with competition authorities at the national level have become ever more important. Ashurst has notable breadth and depth of experience in working with the various national competition authorities in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK, as well as representing clients before the courts in those countries. Our experience extends beyond the countries where Ashurst is physically present, with lawyers also regularly working closely with the competition authorities in various other countries.
Our lawyers deal on a daily basis with the European Commission and European courts and with the national competition and utilities regulators and courts of the EU Member States.
We are regularly called upon to give stand-alone competition and strategic regulatory advice and we advise on state aid matters, EU public procurement issues and utilities regulation. We place particular emphasis on the importance of industrial economics and have six in-house professional industrial economists, five of whom were formerly economists with various competition and regulatory bodies (including the OFT, the UK Department for Trade and Industry, the UK Competition Commission, the Spanish Antitrust Court and the Spanish Antitrust Council) and one of whom is also a professor of antitrust policy and financial economics.
