Associate: Mergers

**Associate: Mergers & Acquisitions**

**Firm Summary**

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work, and why we attract a diverse group of people.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Diversity is a core value of our Firm and it has been recognized with numerous awards and top rankings around the world. Our people represent 110 nationalities and speak 87 languages.

**Position Summary**

We are currently looking associates to join the Corporate M&A practice.

As well as possessing excellent academic credentials and legal knowledge, you should also be commercially-minded, with a solid grasp of the market and an enthusiasm for the cut-and-thrust of international deal-making.

Excellent oral and written communication skills will be major assets—enabling you to negotiate effectively, and to seamlessly manage the flow of information between practice groups, clients and stakeholders.

Regularly working in large, international and multidisciplinary teams, you should also demonstrate a collaborative approach and an ease interacting with a wide range of legal and business professionals. Proactive and self-motivated, you should be eager to take ownership of your work product and demonstrate the skill, talent and commitment to deliver outstanding results.

**Our Practice Area**

Drawing on a global breadth of knowledge and experience, we support major multinationals and leading corporations, banks, private equity funds and other visionaries to execute their largest, most complex multijurisdictional transactions. Combining deep local market knowledge with specialist expertise across the full spectrum of legal areas and business sectors, we have been involved in some of the largest and most high-profile M&A transactions worldwide, and numerous market ‘firsts’.

As an associate in our practice, you will be working in an exciting working environment, handling challenging, time-sensitive deals that demand a cool head and positive mindset. From the moment you join, you will be interacting with multidisciplinary teams from across our international offices and practice groups, from Project Finance to Private Equity and Commercial Litigation. As well as learning from leading practitioners within our own group, you will therefore also be ideally placed to integrate yourself within the firm’s wider global network.

You will also have opportunities to work on high-profile matters that involve the development and financing of complex projects in the natural resources, power and infrastructure sectors from a variety of client perspectives. We advise sponsors, investors, commercial banks, multilateral lenders, export credit agencies, insurance companies, underwriters, governments, contractors and off-takers.

It is not just our cutting-edge approach to achieving our clients’ goals that sets us apart, it is our people. You will work with a diverse group of lawyers and support staff across our Australian domestic, regional, and international offices who are as much friends as colleagues. We strive for an environment that fosters collaboration and encourages our people to approach issues with new thinking while employing the established expertise and skills of our associates.

**Duties and Accountabilities**
- Drafting and reviewing legal and technical documentation
- Conducting legal and technical research
- Analysing commercial and legal information
- Working directly with clients and managing relationships
- Involvement in due diligence - analysis of agreements and their subsequent description
- Drafting legal memoranda on broad range of topics arising under commercial law and corporate law precedents
- Providing direct assistance to senior lawyers on matters arising in the course of day-to-day provision of legal services to leading international and domestic corporate clients
- Manage more junior associates and graduates on transactions

**Qualifications**
- Admission in Australia, England & Wales or other Common Law jurisdiction qualification
- PQE 4+ years
- Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, cre