Associate: Financial Restructuring and Insolvency

3 months ago

Sydney, Australia White & Case Full time

**Associate: Financial Restructuring and Insolvency**

**The Opportunity**

Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice in our Sydney office?

Globally recognised as a leader in complex cross-border insolvencies and workouts, we represent clients in all aspects of restructuring and insolvency matters—both transactional and litigation. Our team frequently advises multinational corporations in simultaneous proceedings and collaborates across practices such as M&A, litigation, tax, and regulatory, ensuring comprehensive support for our clients.

At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our diverse, international team from day one. We foster a collegial working environment where partners are friendly and accessible, and colleagues always supportive and open to questions.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Supporting transactional and advisory work, collaborating with senior associates to manage files and progress matters
- Drafting documents such as deeds of company arrangement, share and asset sale agreements and other documents supplementary to a sale process
- Conducting and overseeing legal research for a wide range of matters.
- Working as a part of a team to support delivering to clients

**The skills and attributes we are looking for**
- Admission in Australia (or Common Law qualified and willing to qualify in Australia)
- PQE 1-3
- Enthusiasm for the practice and willingness to learn
- Excellent drafting skills and attention to detail
- Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when juggling multiple projects.
- Outstanding communication skills
- Strong professional presence and client focus
- Team player and enjoys working as a part of a team.

**What We Offer**

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.

**About White & Case**

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

Since our arrival in Australia in 2016, our Australian practice has grown to 34 partners and 100+ lawyers across Sydney and Melbourne. Our teams work with clients in every state of Australia, across the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe on all aspects of the energy, infrastructure, power (including renewable energy) mining & metals sectors, and on high-profile public market and private equity M&A transactions.

**How to apply**

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Primary Location: Australia-Sydney

Expected Workplace: Hybrid

Job Posting: Oct 10, 2024, 1:59:44 AM

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