An American multinational law firm is looking for an experienced antitrust/competition lawyer to provide cover for a maternity leave.

The firm has over 1,500 lawyers and its clients include corporations, financial institutions, government agencies, universities, and health care organisations.

What will the role involve?
You’ll be supporting the firm’s work on:

• Complex ex-US merger control, FDI, and Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) reviews.
• Substantive risk assessments, strategic advocacy, and coordination of multi-jurisdictional filings.
• Investigations under Article 101(1) and 102 TFEU (or national equivalents) before the European Commission and national competition authorities.
• A client base that includes private equity funds and strategic corporates, requiring commercial awareness and responsiveness.

You will:

• Run and supervise multi-jurisdictional merger control and FDI reviews, including drafting advocacy submissions and managing filing processes.
• Lead on competition investigations, liaising with regulators and preparing strategic responses.
• Communicate clearly and confidently with clients via calls and emails, and take a proactive approach to building strong client and team relationships.
• Support the development of junior lawyers by identifying growth opportunities and providing training.
• Integrate smoothly into the team, adapting to new dynamics and contributing to a collaborative culture.

What skills do you need?

• Proven experience in international merger control and competition investigations, particularly involving PE and strategic clients.
• Strong client communication skills, with a proactive and solutions-oriented mindset.
• The ability to lead and supervise complex matters and support junior colleagues.
• A collaborative, adaptable approach and a genuine commitment to teamwork and professional development.

Why Join LOD?

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.