Senior Legal Counsel - Antitrust and Trade Law

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a  Senior Legal Counsel  to join the  Antitrust and Trade Law team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences. 

The Antitrust and Trade Law team is responsible for Delivery Hero's competition and trade law matters globally, covering the 70+ jurisdictions where we operate. We are involved from the start on exciting M&A transactions, develop strategies in relation to competition investigations, and foster compliance efforts with competition and sanctions laws throughout the entire group. We are a dynamic team, regularly dealing with novel questions and coming up with innovative solutions to address both legal risks and business needs.

• Overseeing and advising on all aspects of competition law arising in the context of Delivery Hero’s global operations, including merger control, antitrust investigations and commercial agreements, across 65+ jurisdictions;

• Providing pragmatic advice in relation to the structuring and risks of potential M&A transactions, including running multi-jurisdictional merger control and foreign direct investment filing assessments, advising on due diligence processes, transaction agreement clauses as well as post-merger integration processes, and overseeing filing processes;

• Leading on antitrust investigations, including developing strategies and updating senior management on these investigations;

• Guiding local legal teams on a wide range of competition law matters including on investigations and compliance questions across our jurisdictions and developing best practices;

• Advising on international trade law, in particular on risk mitigation strategies related to EU and US sanctions laws;

• Developing and providing training sessions to a wide range of stakeholders in the group worldwide.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of post-qualification experience in reputable international law firms and/or in-house legal teams, ideally advising tech companies or platform businesses on competition and trade law matters.
• Strong expertise in EU competition law, including merger control, vertical restraints, antitrust investigations, and platform regulation.
• Experience working with antitrust and competition law frameworks across multiple global jurisdictions.
• Familiarity with foreign direct investment regimes, foreign subsidies regulations, and US/EU export control and sanctions laws.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to provide pragmatic legal advice to non-legal stakeholders.
• Full professional proficiency in English; additional languages such as German are considered a plus.

Additional Information

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.

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Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

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