Associate: Corporate M&A

The opportunity

Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Corporate M&A team in our Sydney office?

As an Associate, you will apply good judgment and excellent analytical skills to your work. Highly organised and self-motivated, you'll be a team player with a strong professional presence and client focus.

Our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice is globally recognised as a top-tier leader in both public and private M&A transactions. We deliver unparalleled legal services for complex corporate deals, offering strategic planning, due diligence, negotiation, and execution of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other business combinations. Serving a diverse clientele, including multinational corporations, private equity firms and banks, our team ensures regulatory compliance, manages risk, and structures transactions for optimal outcomes.

By combining extensive legal expertise with deep market insight, we help clients navigate high-stakes transactions, fostering growth and creating value, solidifying our reputation as one of the premier M&A practices worldwide.

At White & Case, we'll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our 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

• Assisting on leading complex multi-jurisdictional cross-border M&A and Private Equity transactions
• Coordinating the various groups working on a project and ensuring that they are all on schedule, understanding and disseminating transactional information
• Liaising with clients and stakeholders
• Involvement in due diligence – analysis of agreements and their subsequent description
• Working with local counsels in various jurisdictions
• Drafting and reviewing legal and technical documentation
• Managing more junior associates and graduates on transactions

The skills and attributes we are looking for

• Admission in Australia, England & Wales or other Common Law jurisdiction qualification
• PQE 5-7 years, currently at Senior Associate level
• Good understanding of the key risks and issues involved in large transactions.
• Experience of advising on numerous commercial contracts
• Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when working across multiple deals
• Excellent drafting skills
• Client service focus and commercial awareness
• Team player
• Strong judgment

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

Interested? Please apply by submitting your CV for further consideration.

We are committed to creating a fair workplace and encourage applications from all ages, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, genders, sexual orientations, as well as people who have family or carer responsibilities. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

For further assistance or queries regarding this opportunity please reach out to Lauren Evans at

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