Associate/ Senior Associate

Full Job Description

Thomson Geer is a major Australian Corporate law firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra. The firm has more than 800 partners and staff nationally and offers a dynamic, friendly and professional work environment. In particular, the Perth Corporate Team is market leading and one of the busiest in Perth, attracting some of most high profile and complicated corporate work. We are passionate about providing value to our clients - their business success is our priority. Teams at Thomson Geer are built around client needs and delivering solutions-oriented service to our clients with their most challenging assignments. This pursuit of excellence in everything that we do is a key reason for our success. At Thomson Geer we are looking for candidates who are ambitious, client focused, commercially minded, solutions-oriented and who work well in a team environment.   

The Role

We are currently looking for Associates or Senior Associates with 2 - 8 years PAE to join our corporate team in Perth.  This position will work closely with experienced and respected Partners, providing legal advice across a wide spectrum of some of the most high profile matters in the Perth market and acting for a variety of clients across various industries. Exposure to transactional work (including capital markets work) and corporate advisory will be highly regarded for this position.  

Matters will range from mergers and acquisitions, corporate, commercial and strategic advisory work, IPOs and secondary capital raisings.  

The work would include:

• M&A transactions;
• Equity & debt capital markets;
• Corporate advisory;
• Joint ventures;
• Commercial arrangements;
• Corporate governance;
• Restructures; and
• General commercial and corporate contracts.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

• Be ambitious and driven, possess a strong willingness to learn, have a 'hands-on' approach, with great relationship-building and communication skills.
• Have solid experience and exposure to M&A transactions as well as a strong background in corporate advisory work, preferably through experience gained in mid to top-tier firms.
• Be able to work collaboratively in a team, including engaging with other specialist practice areas within the firm.
• Have solid experience with legal due diligence, including drafting due diligence reports.
• Experience with reviewing and drafting contracts.
• Provide sound, pragmatic and innovative legal advice to the firm's corporate clients.
• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills to varied situations.
• Have excellent attention to detail, backed up by strong academics.
• A thirst to develop as this is a role that offers genuine career development opportunities as part of one the most successful teams in Perth.

What we offer:    

As a major corporate firm we offer the successful candidate an opportunity to work with a strong and established client base, genuine growth trajectories and a variety of benefits including: interesting and challenging pro-bono opportunities, flexible working, generous parental leave, flu vaccinations and skin checks annually, study assistance, sophisticated employee assistance program, corporate discounts, a variety of social activities including EOFY and end of year functions, sporting teams and much more

We have a collaborative approach to all we do, based fundamentally on openness, transparency, respect and accountability to get the best outcome for our clients and make sure our team are taken care of

What you need to do:

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply via the link below or reach out to for a confidential discussion.