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About the Role
Seeking a talented and commercially minded Solicitor to join the Funds M&A team in Sydney. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to deepen expertise in funds-related mergers and acquisitions, private capital transactions, and structured investments, focusing on real assets while working with leading practitioners and high-profile clients.
Responsibilities
- Advise clients on a broad range of transactions across the funds life cycle, including capital raising, asset and platform M&A, formation of fund, club, joint venture and mandate structures, and associated management arrangements.
- Manage and support the execution of transactions from inception to completion, including coordinating legal due diligence, negotiating unit and share sale agreements, and running signing and completion processes.
- Work closely with clients and broader tax, duty, real estate, and debt teams, including collaborating across the global network, to develop and implement investment structures.
- Draft and negotiate fund and structured investment documents, including unitholder and shareholder agreements, mandate agreements, trust deeds, and related management agreements.
- Assist with capital raising for real asset funds, including preparing information memoranda and due diligence committee materials.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships through responsive and high-quality legal service.
Requirements
- Admission to practice as a lawyer in Australia or New Zealand.
- 2–5 years' post-qualification experience gained within a leading corporate legal team.
- Experience in funds, private equity, corporate M&A and/or investment management transactions.
- Strong technical understanding of investment structures and M&A processes.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills.
- Sound commercial judgment and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
- Collaborative approach and enthusiasm for working in high-performing, team-oriented environments.
- Innovative mindset, curious about AI and emerging technologies.
Skills
- Funds M&A
- Private capital transactions
- Structured investments
- Real assets
- Capital raising
- Asset M&A
- Platform M&A
- Fund formation
- Joint venture structures
- Mandate structures
- Legal due diligence
- Negotiation
- Drafting
- Client relationship management
- Stakeholder management
- AI
- Emerging technologies
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent Contract
Experience Level
- 2-5 years post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Admission to practice as a lawyer in Australia or New Zealand
Benefits
- Holistic wellbeing fund
- Home office allowance
About the Company
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm committed to helping clients achieve their goals through exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence.
- The firm is a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm with an extensive footprint across the world’s largest markets, key financial centres, and major growth hubs.
- Recognized for tackling complexity and navigating change in demanding litigation, regulatory work, and complex transactions, particularly in energy, infrastructure, and resources sectors.
- A global team of over 6,000 professionals across 26 offices, committed to high performance, collaboration, diversity, and digital innovation.
- Client-centred, commercially driven, and renowned for solution-focused expertise.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives.
- Essential to success, including the ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance.
- A key part of the firm's Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.