Monitoring Trustee Lawyer

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners. We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.

You'll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you're supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one. You'll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team. Together, we grow, belong and impact.

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About the team

The Monitoring Trustee team is a dynamic consultancy team within the Forensics & Competition Team of Forvis Mazars LLP (“Forvis Mazars”) advising companies and regulatory authorities on compliance with remedies in primarily merger and anti-trust cases. The role will involve working with a multinational, blue chip client base drawn from a broad range of sectors. Forvis Mazars is regularly appointed as Monitoring Trustee in connection with the world's largest M&A transactions and is a renowned market leader in the field.

We are seeking an experienced lawyer to join our Monitoring Trustee team in London.  The role would suit someone with competition law practice experience or a commercial/corporate/regulatory compliance lawyer with a demonstrated interest in competition law.  We are flexible when it comes to experience level, although the successful candidate will need to demonstrate that they can operate at associate level at a minimum.

This is an opportunity to apply your analytical skills to real-world situations across a range of scenarios, industries and jurisdictions to support the effectiveness of remedies designed to safeguard competition.  You will join a high-performing multidisciplinary team which acts as the ‘eyes and ears’ of regulatory authorities as well as providing expertise to clients wishing to navigate transactions raising complex issues.  The team is  agile, forensic, articulate and pragmatic.

About the role

• Contribute to the assessment of parties’ compliance with commitments offered to competition authorities in the EU, UK and globally (North and South America, Asia).
• Manage / assist in the management of entire projects or work streams of larger projects (e.g. monitoring of divestiture processes and hold-separate/ring-fencing obligations).
• Contribute to the assessment of potential purchasers of divestment businesses (e.g. review of independence, identification of competition concerns and assessing the terms of sales for compliance with remedies).
• Monitor behavioural commitments (e.g. monitoring long term access commitments, fair and equitable contract terms, analysis of legal agreements for compliance purposes and exchanges of confidential information).
• Proactively identify compliance issues and appropriately escalate these within the team.
• Analysis of specific legal aspects of compliance, or discrete legal issues on an ad hoc basis.
• Co-ordinate and supervise team members in order to compile detailed reports to competition enforcement agencies or communications to the client/agencies on compliance points.
• Draft clear, accurate and concise contributions to compliance reports to competition authorities; review the work product of other team members to secure these standards.
• Identify business development opportunities and support/ lead with proposals.
• Assist in/ lead the development of training, engagement procedures and methodologies.
• Mentor, coach and develop junior team members as required.
• (Depending on level) formal line management responsibilities
• Play an appropriate role in ensuring Forvis Mazars’ standards and procedures are maintained across the team.
• Adopt a flexible approach where necessary to accommodate interaction with clients/regulators in different time zones and to meet deadlines.
• Promote the firm's values and beliefs, demonstrating integrity and maintaining an ethical stance, using flexibility and tact to express views both internally and externally as necessary.

What we are looking for

• Qualified lawyer with significant experience of advising corporate clients / stakeholders.
• Experience at associate / senior associate level in private practice or equivalent.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to interrogate information with a critical eye, identify compliance issues, generate insights and formulate solutions.
• Organisational skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritise workload.
• Excellent drafting and communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to communicate team goals with clarity, set clear objectives for more junior team members and provide timely feedback and support as necessary.
• Experience of a client-facing role with an ability to build and develop relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholders to explain complex issues clearly and efficiently, adopting the appropriate tone in both written and oral communications.
• Practical experience in regulatory compliance or monitoring trustee services would be beneficial but is not essential.
• A working knowledge of another language (especially, . German, Spanish, or Portuguese) will be advantageous.
• Strong IT skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word as well as the appropriate deployment of AI).

Ready to grow, belong, and impact? Apply now and join us at Forvis Mazars!

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Forvis Mazars diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our values. We value our people's unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experience, and know this diversity create better outcomes for our clients. We seek to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, inclusive of sex, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, and faith. We select candidates based on skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience and aim to support all our team members to reach their potential. At Forvis Mazars, we promote an environment in which you can grow your skills, belong to a team that values your ideas, and make an impact that matters.