Simmons Adaptive – Interim Competition Lawyer

About Us

Simmons & Simmons Adaptive:

Clients today need flexible resourcing solutions to meet the changing demands of the marketplace. Simmons & Simmons has always been willing to adapt and embrace new forms of service delivery to meet changing client demands. Simmons Adaptive is a flexible resourcing solution to meet client requirements at the same high quality you expect from Simmons & Simmons. We understand that our firm is equal only to the strengths of our people and place great emphasis on recruiting and retaining staff who meet our high standards.

As an Adaptive consultant, you will be fully supported by the Simmons & Simmons team with a sponsoring Partner and a client team with whom we would encourage you to engage on a regular basis. You will have access to the firm's resources and Know-how and have the opportunity to be involved in training and development at the Firm.

Simmons Adaptive is the flexible resourcing team for leading international law firm, Simmons & Simmons. For additional information on the firm, please visit www.simmons-simmons.com.

Main purpose of the role:

Simmons Adaptive are keen to hear from competition lawyers to support our client within financial services.

The role is covering a maternity leave cover for 12 months, working closely with the Competition Team on a broad range of legal, compliance and competition-policy related matters.

• Providing ongoing legal and strategic competition law advice on commercial and industry projects, antitrust issues, and contracts.
• CMA, FCA and EC market studies and investigations, employing competition law proactively and supporting interventions as a third party.
• Transactional corporate projects (M&A or joint ventures).
• CMA, FCA or internal competition law investigations.
• Competition litigation.
• Engagement with the CMA on alleged breaches of Market Investigations Orders.

Person specification:

• You are a qualified lawyer with proven experience in competition law gained within a leading private practice or an in-house legal team.
• You demonstrate technical excellence in all areas of EU and UK competition law identification and advice.
• You possess a sound understanding of processes and procedures of UK and EU competition authorities and financial regulators, their jurisdictions and authority – and have experience of direct dealings with such bodies.
• You are a problem solver and offer a collaborative approach.
• You are able to work in a dynamic and fast moving environment.
• You are able to work quickly and effectively to tight deadlines. You have excellent organisation skills with the ability to effectively prioritise workloads.
• You can work autonomously but can also collaborate as part of the wider team.
• You will be required to hold the relevant right to work in the UK (visa sponsorship is not available).

Why you should join Simmons Adaptive:

• You will have access to high-quality roles and work within Simmons & Simmons’ market-leading clients
• You’ll have support from a Simmons & Simmons ‘sponsor Partner’ whilst on external assignment
• You will be given access to the Firms’ resources and Know-how when on assignment
• We will invite you to our in-person and virtual networking events exclusively for Adaptive consultants, along with firmwide webinars and events
• You will have the backing of a leading international law firm.

Equal opportunities:

• We are committed to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to equal opportunities in employment.
• We believe in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
• At Simmons & Simmons we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us, should this be something you are interested in.

Background screening:

All recruits of Simmons & Simmons will be required to go through our background screening process. Depending on the position you apply for this may include a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) certificate. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a DBS certificate on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed. The firm's policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders is available on request.