Associate

Fox Williams offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a personable, progressive and entrepreneurial environment.  Our people and culture are important to us and central to everything we do. We continually strive to create and maintain a friendly and supportive environment for our staff.   You will quickly get to know everyone from the Senior Partner to the most junior staff.  Whilst we are recognised for our strong culture and investing in our people, we are equally well known for our high profile matters, quality of our work and solving our clients’ most complex legal issues. 

Fox Williams is committed to creating a diverse workforce which reflects the demographics of society and the broad range of clients for whom we work. We collaborate with our recruitment agents to seek a broad talent pool for all of our roles. We are passionate about working in an inclusive environment and successful candidates will be required to uphold this.

The Travel Team is headed by Rhys Griffiths and includes two other partners (Lucy England and Farina Azam), a senior associate and a junior associate. 

Our Travel Team is top-ranked in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for Travel: regulatory and commercial.  We represent the biggest and most well-known travel companies in the world, with a particular focus on tech-enabled travel companies such as booking platforms and online travel agents. Our clients include companies such as:

• Booking.com
• On the Beach
• Loveholidays
• easyJet holidays
• lastminute.com

The commercial work we are typically engaged upon includes:

• Agency Agreements between a travel supplier and an online travel agent for the sale of travel services.
• B2B Supplier Agreements – where our client is selling travel services to another company, which will then sell to the customer.
• Technology Agreements – all variety of these including for SaaS, API licences, White labelling, AI driven technologies.
• Customer terms and conditions.

The regulatory work we are typically engaged upon includes:

• Helping our clients navigate the applicable travel regulations, and obtain the necessary travel licences, across the world.
• Advising on compliance with general consumer law e.g. website booking journeys, sales and marketing practices. 
• Working on multi-jurisdictional compliance projects.
• Dealing with regulators on compliance issues, such as the CMA and CAA.

The successful candidate will:

• Have at least 2 years’ PQE in a commercial / regulatory role (travel sector experience is not expected).
• Enjoy undertaking a broad range of work.
• Have sound commercial contract experience.
• Have good problem solving skills for resolving new and unique scenarios.
• Have a can-do attitude.