Senior Associate

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate to join our growing Energy transactional team in Melbourne. This dynamic role offers you the opportunity to run market-leading transactions working with our national Energy practice, reporting directly to Partner, Sarah Birrell.

Sarah heads up the Energy practice in Melbourne and works with clients in the renewables, oil and gas, mining, critical minerals and infrastructure sectors, delivering strategic solutions on M&A, joint ventures and other complex transactions. You'll also collaborate closely with our Sydney-based Partners, including Raymond Lou (Head of our Australian Energy practice), Sean Duffy, and Lucas Tyszkiewicz – leaders in the energy space.

Our practice

Baker McKenzie's Transactional Practice Group is at the forefront of providing commercially astute advice to major Australian and global companies, fund managers, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Energy transition is one of the three key pillars for Baker McKenzie globally, and the Australian office has done some of the largest renewables M&A transactions in the last two years.

We're renowned for our expertise in high-end mergers and acquisitions, and what truly sets us apart is our unmatched global reach. With offices across the world, we offer clients something no other Australian law firm can: a leading local practice seamlessly connected to a fully integrated global platform. This means you'll work on cross-border deals that make front-page news, alongside some of the most respected legal minds in the industry.

Our team specialises in complex M&A transactions, privatisations, listed public to private transactions, PPPs, structured finance, major infrastructure (including digital and telco infrastructure), energy, resources and utilities. This role offers you the opportunity to work on high profile projects with our industry-leading Australian and international clients – who are driving energy transition through investments in, and the development and operation of, energy and critical minerals projects.

About you

You will have:

• demonstrable experience as a Senior Associate across a range of matters in the energy sector (regulatory experience and experience in oil and gas matters preferred but not essential);
• relevant experience in a top tier or leading international law firm (preferred);
• a strong client service focus;
• a commitment to high standards including strong drafting and commercial skills, and excellent analytical, written and oral communication;
• an ability to develop strong relationships with clients and take responsibility for these relationships, together with business development aptitude, interest, and experience;
• an ability to work well in a team environment (including across Australian offices and internationally);
• a proven ability to delegate and willingness to develop others through mentoring and sharing experiences.

About us

At Baker McKenzie, we are different in the way we think, work and behave. The first local, truly global law firm in Australia, we commenced operations in Sydney in 1964, in Melbourne in 1982 and in Brisbane in 2014. With our breadth of experience in the local market and global connectivity, we are the law firm of choice for Australian and multinational companies. We have 6,500 lawyers globally who work seamlessly together – across practice groups, sectors and markets – to provide our clients with the connected perspectives, integrated solutions and seamless guidance they need to succeed in an increasingly interconnected global market.

Baker McKenzie Australia can offer you access to complex, market-leading matters working with some of the world's best legal minds – people who know the law and who understand business. We have an unrivalled ability to provide training and secondment opportunities across our global network. Locally, we have an inclusive culture of learning, coaching and opportunity where you will work as part of teams on matters that often cross borders. We value people who think ahead and get noticed.

At Baker McKenzie, our flat structure means you will have direct exposure to our clients, responsibility for meaningful involvement across a broad range of matters, and opportunities for progression. You will also regularly work with our extensive network of global colleagues and clients.

Additional Information

Our benefits

• Financial: competitive remuneration package, generous bonus scheme, salary continuance insurance, life insurance, salary sacrifice options, employee discounts, referral rewards, and travel insurance for you and your immediate family.
• Learning & development opportunities: client and international office secondments and regional and global development programs.
• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to balance your work and lifestyle.
• Leave: 26 weeks' paid parental leave for parents/carers (with no minimum service) with access to an external coaching service, ability to purchase additional annual leave, flexible public holidays and volunteer leave.
• Health & wellbeing programs: Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling and wellbeing and financial coaching for you and your immediate family, flu vaccinations and discounted health insurance.

Inclusion, Diversity & Equity

Baker McKenzie is committed to providing a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for all its employees, with equal opportunity for all to progress and have a meaningful career with our Firm. As part of our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from people of all genders (including if you identify as transgender or gender diverse), sexual orientations, abilities, cultural backgrounds, as well as First Nations peoples and people with caring responsibilities, neurodivergent lived experiences and disabilities. We want all applicants to be given the best possible opportunity to succeed in our recruitment processes, so invite you to let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to equitably participate in our recruitment processes or in performing the requirements of a role at Baker McKenzie.

We appreciate that everyone's needs are different. Please contact us so that we can work with you to best support you in our recruitment processes. We are happy to share accommodations we've made in the past and are keen to work with you personally, to set you up for success.

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