Ashurst Perkins Coie
Competition Economist
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At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?
- Flexible work options - part-time, working from home, and additional leave
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
- Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
The Opportunity:
Our Competition team is seeking an exceptional economist to join us in London. Widely recognised as a long-established and award-winning practice, we are unique among city law firms in combining first-class industrial economists with competition lawyers to provide integrated legal and economic advice across mergers and acquisitions, market investigations, antitrust matters, and competition litigation. In this role, you will enhance your skills by applying economic theories and empirical techniques across a range of sectors, working on high-profile cases for major global clients. You will gain first-hand experience working alongside our team of competition lawyers and economists, with exposure to senior business executives, competition authorities, and regulators. We will support your progress through team working, client exposure, and training when you need it.
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About you:
The successful candidate will:
- Hold a degree in economics (minimum 2:1), with a Master's degree in economics and experience of industrial and competition economics being an advantage.
- Be a recently graduated university candidate or an economist with less than two years' experience looking to make their first move.
- Demonstrate strong numerical and data analysis skills, with a good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and STATA.
- Possess first-rate written and communication skills, with the ability to draft and present complex economic concepts in a clear and concise manner accessible to non-economists.
- Bring experience in competition and/or regulatory economics gained in consultancy, industry, government, or a regulatory agency (an advantage, not essential).
- Be able to develop client relationships and contribute to our competition department's goals.
- Have additional language skills (a bonus).
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