Solicitor, Corporate M&A

3 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Herbert Smith Freehills Full time

JOB DESCRIPTION

About Herbert Smith Freehills

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Solicitor to join our premier, award winning Band 1 Corporate M&A team in Sydney.

In this role you will have exposure to some of the best and highest profile deals in Australia and work closely with a range of leading Partners across our Corporate group including Tony Damian, Nicole Pedler and Amelia Morgan.

What you’ll do

  • Work across a range of corporate transactions including public and private M&A deals (including schemes of arrangement and takeovers), and cross border transactions.

  • Be a key contributor on M&A transactions, working closely with Partners and Senior Associates to draft and negotiate key transaction documents, perform due diligence, and provide advice on areas of legal risk for clients.

  • Manage your time various across large transactions and enjoy working closely with other legal teams across the firm, ensuring key deadlines are met, and deliverables are anticipated.

  • Support the delivery of exceptional client service, being highly responsive and supporting Partners and other team members with business development activities.

  • Provide mentorship to Graduates and Clerks that rotate through the team, in addition to contributing to a collaborative and supportive team environment with your fellow Solicitors.

What you’ll bring

  • Tertiary qualifications in law and an unrestricted Australian or New Zealand practicing certificate.

  • A minimum of 4 years’ post qualification experience in within a leading corporate M&A practice.

  • Experience across public and/or private M&A, and corporate advisory experience.

  • Excellent academic results, and a passion for continued learning.

  • A desire and energy to be part of a high energy, high performing team.

  • A proactive approach and ability to work to tight timeframes, collaboratively and at times autonomously.

  • A curiosity about clients, their businesses and the M&A landscape.

The M&A and Takeovers Team

Our market-leading M&A practice has a long-standing reputation for advising corporate clients across multiple jurisdictions on their most-significant, complex and innovative M&A, joint venture, takeover, demerger and corporate restructuring transactions. We are consistently ranked as a leading firm in this area when measured against international benchmarks.

We have secured our status as the leading legal adviser in Australian mergers and acquisitions, topping three different M&A league tables after acting on more deals than any other firm during the 2023 calendar year.

The firm ranked:

  • 1st by deal count and 1st by value of announced AU/NZ deals (Refinitiv).

  • 1st by deal count in announced AU/NZ deals (Bloomberg).

  • 1st by deal count and 1st by deal value of Australasian deals (Mergermarket).

What you can expect from us:

We're a world leading international law firm with a global team of over 5,000 professionals. As a market leader in Australia, we are committed to high performance, collaboration, diversity and digital innovation. We are client-centred, commercially driven, and renowned for our solution-focused expertise. We will align your growth with our ambitions.

We make your personal and professional growth our business. And as part of the team, our ambition is yours too. Wherever you are in your career: grow and help the firm grow with you.

We will provide opportunities to learn on the job as well as a mix of learning opportunities tailored to you. Daily experiences, access to leading clients, supportive challenges, team collaboration, mentors, and structured learning opportunities help you to expand your knowledge and reach your goals.

Join us to be part of a human, bold and outstanding team at Australia's market leading law firm.

For any questions or a confidential discussion, please contact Carissa Bartels, Recruitment Manager at carissa.bartels@hsf.com.  

This vacancy is being managed directly by Herbert Smith Freehills Recruitment team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional assistance. Thank you.

Team

Corporate

Working Pattern

Full time

Location

Sydney

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Diversity & Inclusion

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.

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