Corporate Antitrust Mid-Level Lawyer

The role

What You Will Be Responsible For

As an Antitrust Lawyer based in Riyadh, you will be working across a wide range of sectors including technology, consumer goods and retail, financial services, energy and infrastructure, transport, telecommunications, and media. You will advise on a range of matters, including:

• Merger control: merger control analysis and preparing merger filings to the Saudi General Authority of Competition in connection with both local transactions and as part of multi-jurisdictional filing programmes.
• Coordinating international filings that are required as a result of local transactions in Saudi Arabia.
• Working with the global antitrust team on developing international best practice and knowhow.
• Market investigations/sector inquiries.
• Cartel and abuse of dominance investigations.
• Cooperation, distribution, and licensing arrangements.
• Developing relationships with clients and actively engaging in business development and thought leadership initiatives.
• Developing knowledge and expertise of antitrust matters in the corporate team more generally, including delivering training to colleagues.

Key Attractions

• We are committed to working with clients as integrated team members - which means that, from day one, our lawyers have hands-on client contact.
• We are proud of our reputation for being a friendly, supportive, meritocratic and diverse group and reinforce this with regular social events - both ad hoc and organized.
• We run a sophisticated global training programme including local monthly courses run by The Academy.
• Our remuneration package is one of the most attractive in the market.

Who You Will Work With 

The work covered by our Antitrust Group includes advice on a broad range of antitrust and sector-specific regulatory matters, often with a cross-border dimension. Our Antitrust and Regulatory lawyers work on behalf of our clients on market/sector investigations, enforcement matters, and mergers requiring clearance from competition and other regulatory authorities. We advise on market-leading mandates across the full range of contentious and non-contentious domestic and cross-border antitrust matters. Our global team obtains clearances for our clients in the world's most challenging merger control proceedings, acts on the most significant dominance cases, and represents clients on complex multi-jurisdictional cartels. We also help our clients avoid antitrust issues by developing and implementing sophisticated compliance programs.

Your experience

• You will have strong proven working knowledge across all areas of competition law, sector-specific regulation, and public policy as a mid-level lawyer, probably gained at a city firm, or at an overseas common law practice with a highly regarded profile.
• You will naturally be able to demonstrate excellent document drafting skills. You should demonstrate strong communication and analytical skills along with a high level of commercial awareness.
• You will need to demonstrate that you can thrive in a team with high professional standards and a flexible client-friendly commercial approach.
• You will have had strong exposure to collaborating with multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams.
• It is crucial that you can demonstrate an appetite for business development, client relationship management, and thought leadership.
• You will have strong legal skills with the ability to provide commercial solutions.
• Good transactional and management skills.
• Experience of taking a leading role in advising clients, supervising junior Lawyers/ trainees and completing transactions.
• You will enjoy working in a busy and supportive team, supervising others and liaising with Lawyers in other practice areas and/or offices in the firm.
• Candidates should be fluent in English and have previous experience working in an international law firm. Arabic language is advantageous but not required.
• In all cases, candidates should have first class legal ability coupled with a practical commercial approach; excellent drafting, analytical and communication skills; and enjoy being part of a friendly outgoing team. You must also have exceptional results throughout your academic history.

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

AS&H Clifford Chance is one of Saudi Arabia's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise.  The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the KSA and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; public policy and regulatory; litigation and dispute resolution. 

Equal Opportunities

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society. 

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here