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Competition Law and Lawyers

Competition lawyers are also known as anti-trust lawyers. They work closely with their counterparts in transactional corporate, capital markets, banking and regulatory departments and advise on all aspects on mergers, acquisitions, monopolies and cartels. They principally advise large corporations, trade bodies and government departments on local, regional and global issues. Competition lawyers tend to be highly academic.

  1. Are these skills transferrable to in-house legal jobs? - Yes, but there are limited options due to the specialisation. The Government Regulators would be the most common option and indeed many competition lawyers would have done a secondment or a stint with them at some stage of their career.

  2. Do I need to specialise? - Unlikely.

  3. What type of law firm can I work in? - The large commercial and international firms have competition law practices either as stand alone department or in a corporate support role.

  4. Can I use my skills as a competition lawyer to get similar jobs overseas? - If you are an EC competition then these skills are transferrable within the EC, particularly to Brussels, language skills can help. Transferring to other Common Law markets such as Australia and New Zealand is possible. Local knowledge is important.

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