Lawyer 5+ years PQE  Com­mer­cial / Cor­po­rate / IP

About the role

We are look­ing for a bright, moti­vat­ed, client focused, expe­ri­enced lawyer with min­i­mum 5 years PQE to work direct­ly with two Part­ners in our Com­mer­cial / Cor­po­rate / IP team.

In this role you will be involved in all areas of com­mer­cial, cor­po­rate and IP trans­ac­tion­al work, includ­ing acqui­si­tions and dis­pos­als, invest­ments, loan and secu­ri­ty, share­hold­er agree­ments, as well as restruc­tur­ing and cor­po­rate advi­so­ry work. In terms of client base, this role has a good mix, and will see you advis­ing Aus­tralian and inter­na­tion­al clients, includ­ing both pri­vate and pub­lic com­pa­nies, on a range of mat­ters for a num­ber of indus­try sectors. 

Day to day, you will work on com­mer­cial busi­ness mat­ters from start to fin­ish and you will be involved in, for exam­ple, draft­ing com­mer­cial agree­ments, draft­ing joint ven­ture agree­ments, advise on restruc­tur­ings, due dili­gences, draft part­ner­ship agree­ments, trade­mark pros­e­cu­tions and fil­ings, port­fo­lio man­age­ment, sale and pur­chase of busi­ness­es as well as cor­po­rate and trust structuring.

Skills & Experience

To be con­sid­ered for this posi­tion, you will have at least 5 years post qual­i­fy­ing expe­ri­ence as a Com­mer­cial and Cor­po­rate lawyer in a sim­i­lar role and be tech­ni­cal­ly com­pe­tent in the area of com­mer­cial law. Ide­al­ly, you will have an inter­est in IP and want to be devel­oped in this area. It is impor­tant that you are a strong com­mu­ni­ca­tor, you pride your­self in your high atten­tion to detail and you plan your time effec­tive­ly to meet deadlines.

An inter­me­di­ate lev­el of MS Office appli­ca­tions is essen­tial and expe­ri­ence with use of Affin­i­ty prac­tice man­age­ment sys­tem and File Site Doc­u­ment Man­age­ment would be high­ly regard­ed but not essen­tial as full train­ing will be given.

This is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for an enthu­si­as­tic dri­ven lawyer to real­ly own the role and join a high­ly-regard­ed Commercial/​Corporate and IP prac­tice, work­ing with two sup­port­ive Partners.

Cul­ture

Work­place cul­ture is impor­tant to us, because when our peo­ple are hap­py, we know they will look after our clients and them­selves. Swaab is a place where peo­ple can belong, evolve and cre­ate and are reward­ed for their efforts. Our peo­ple are the key to our suc­cess, and we believe in recog­nis­ing the val­ue that they bring to the firm.

Ben­e­fits

In addi­tion to a com­pet­i­tive salary, you will also ben­e­fit from the following:

• Salary con­tin­u­ance insurance
• Gym/​wellness contribution
• Excel­lent work­place envi­ron­ment and culture
• Flex­i­bil­i­ty
• Reg­u­lar team build­ing and social events
• Sup­port­ive team and firm
• Pur­chased leave
• Flu shots
• EAP
• Annu­al legal allowance
• Yoga
• Var­i­ous oth­er well-being initiatives

About Swaab

We are a mul­ti-award win­ning com­mer­cial law firm with an entrenched com­mit­ment to our clients and our col­leagues which we live through our own Swaab Brand of Service.

We proud­ly serve the mid­dle mar­ket, list­ed cor­po­ra­tions, fam­i­ly busi­ness­es, wealthy indi­vid­u­als, entre­pre­neurs and start-ups that want a respon­sive and nim­ble team of experts who cel­e­brate their con­tri­bu­tion to the broad­er Aus­tralian economy.

Our key areas of prac­tice are prop­er­ty, cor­po­rate, com­mer­cial, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and tech­nol­o­gy, employ­ment law, lit­i­ga­tion, insol­ven­cy, trans­port and fran­chis­ing. We work across a num­ber of indus­tries includ­ing prop­er­ty, retail and fash­ion, health, pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices, trans­port and media. In addi­tion to our com­mer­cial prac­tice we also have a high­ly rep­utable fam­i­ly law team.

We are a mem­ber of Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent, full-ser­vice law firms and is its only Syd­ney based mem­ber. This allows us to keep in touch glob­al­ly, pro­vide extend­ed ser­vices to our clients and gives us the expo­sure and oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with inter­na­tion­al businesses.

How to Apply

If this sounds like the oppor­tu­ni­ty that you have been wait­ing for please apply now, direct­ing your appli­ca­tion to Angela Sharpe, Head of Peo­ple and Cul­ture. All appli­ca­tions will be treat­ed in strict confidence.