Associate | Banking

• Recognised in the AFR BOSS Magazine's Best Places to Work 2024/2025.
• Join a modern, market-leading law firm that puts its people first
• • Collaborative team with opportunities for career development and progression

About you

You are excited about the prospect of further developing your commercial legal career in a highly regarded and growing banking and finance team. You will enjoy working in a friendly, down-to-earth team with a collaborative and supportive mind-set, gaining exposure to a diverse mix of banking and finance matters and delivering client outcomes. Your experience in front-end banking and finance in private practice will demonstrate your ability in building and managing client relationships. Your dedication, enthusiasm and strong desire to learn will also ensure your successful career development in the firm.

The role

Our Corporate & Institutional Banking and Finance team works across the full range of corporate and institutional debt finance transactions, advising Australia's major banks as well as numerous other traditional and alternative lenders, corporate borrowers (including listed companies, multi-nationals and privately-owned groups), private equity houses, asset managers and property developers.  The team's clients, expertise and work-type make it one of the most diverse banking and finance law practices.

With a period of growth in our Brisbane Corporate & Institutional Banking and Finance team, this brings exciting opportunities for an experienced Associate with 3+ years experience. Your role will involve working on varied, complex and innovative finance transactions including corporate finance, secured and unsecured financing, property and construction finance and other real estate financing transactions, debt capital markets and acquisition finance.

Remuneration will be commensurate with relevant experience.

About Gadens

Gadens has again been named one of the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work for 2025, which ranks Australia and New Zealand's best workplaces across nine different industries. We are a leading, independent Australian law firm, with a clear vision and strategy for the future. We help people achieve their purpose in a complex world, by leading by example, inspiring others, innovating and building something we are all proud of. We have an aggressive growth strategy and as part of our evolution and journey, we are creating a modern law firm and will present to the market a new, exciting offering that will rival Australia's top tier firms. At Gadens, we:

• develop and inspire our people
• do the right thing and make an impact
• work with quality clients in our chosen markets
• solve problems with people and technology working seamlessly together
• are a widely recognised and respected brand.

We are always on the lookout for star performers to join our growing firm. To find out more please visit  

What we offer

We offer:

• A friendly, down-to-earth, and supportive team environment.

• Progressive and market-leading Parental Leave support including:

• 30 weeks' Paid Parental Leave

• Superannuation contributions while on Parental Leave, for up to 52 weeks (based on 5 days/week, regardless of your working days)

• An external coach to support our people through the various stages of the parental leave journey (Launch, Leave and Landing)

• A supported and staggered return

• Budget relief for fee earners upon landing/return

• Support and paid leave for Surrogacy and IVF treatment

• Ongoing professional development opportunities.

• Health and wellbeing initiatives.
• And much more

At Gadens, we engage with all of our people to create a work environment that encourages and promotes inclusion and diversity, while instilling pride in the firm and our values of excellence, collaboration, stewardship, positivity, responsibility and integrity.  Our values and culture assist us in creating a cohesive environment in which we are committed equally to professionalism and personal fulfilment. We strive to create a culture where the principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility are embraced and lived by our people every day. This includes respecting and connecting with First Nations people, and providing access to justice to those in need through our pro bono practice. This is what makes Gadens a great place to work.