Mid-level Solicitor, Corporate Energy

**PERTH**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

We are seeking a mid-level Solicitor to join our Band 1 Corporate Energy & Resources team in Perth.

Working closely with industry-leading Partners, you'll be joining a cohesive and high-performing team highly regarded for its deep expertise.

**SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- 2-5 years' legal experience in the energy and resources sector, preferably with a Corporate M&A or projects/procurement background
- be a qualified/admitted legal practitioner in either Australia or New Zealand;
- have an excellent academic record, strong communication and teamwork skills;
- have a hunger to learn and develop, and be part of maintaining a market-leading practice.

**GROUP / TEAM**

Corporate

**GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION**

**The team**:
Our Corporate team are frequently working with industries that are reshaping, restructuring and expanding into new markets. They advise on many of our clients' most important commercial transactions, including significant cross-border mergers and acquisitions, ground-breaking projects and privatisations. We provide market-leading advice across a wide range of industry sectors including the energy, mining, healthcare, infrastructure, technology, media and telecoms, and financial services sectors. The firm is deeply entrenched with clients globally on carbon initiatives and shaping the re-electrification of energy markets and the development of allied industries.

Herbert Smith Freehills' Energy and Resources (E&R) group ranked as a Tier 1 (Legal 500) and ranked Band 1 (Chambers Asia Pacific). The firm's E&R practice has been awarded Energy, Resources and Utilities Team of the Year (2020) by Merger Market Australian Law Awards and Client Choice, Best Firm by Mining, Oil & Gas (2021).

Herbert Smith Freehills is proud to be awarded Most Innovative International Law Firm, Asia Pacific (Financial Times Awards 2019 & 2020) and Winner of the Minds Count Annual Award for Best Mental Wellbeing Initiative 2019.

**What we offer**:

- The opportunity to partner with prestigious clients based in Australia and globally on some of the largest, most strategic and most complex matters, and develop deep expertise across a range of sectors, as well as opportunities to collaborate on cross-border matters with our global network. We also encourage your involvement in our various networks, pro-bono legal offerings, learning and development initiatives and innovation groups such as Innovation 10, Digital Law Group and our Alternative Legal Services (ALT) practice group.
- We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our clients and we value empathy, simplicity and commerciality.
- People join us to develop their careers and themselves. To support this we provide contemporary tailored learning programs, regular career conversations and a culture of feedback.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills we value flexibility. For most roles, we work an average of 60% of the time in the office, taking into consideration individual, team, client and learning needs.**ROLE TYPE**

Legal professionals/Practice Group

**CONTRACT TYPE**

Permanent

**WORKING PATTERN**

Full Time

**DIVERSITY & INCLUSION**

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.

Herbert Smith Freehills