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About the Role
In this newly created position of Director, Legal, you will join a team of senior legal professionals, providing and arranging legal advice for the Morrison group, with a particular focus on advising on investment origination, asset management and divestment activities.
Responsibilities
- Act as a member of the deal team, managing external legal advisers, and advising on legal documents and structures for (primarily) private market transactions.
- Lead legal workstreams, including managing legal due diligence, negotiating transaction documentation, structuring, shareholder / consortium arrangements, debt financing and regulatory approvals.
- Manage external legal advisers and coordinate legal inputs with investment, asset management and operational teams.
- Advise on early-stage transaction documents, such as NBIOs, term sheets and framework agreements.
- Support portfolio entity and asset management activities, including bolt-on acquisitions, refinancings, disputes, management incentive arrangements and shareholder matters.
- Provide general legal advice across the Morrison group, contributing to legal precedents and knowledge-sharing, and building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, clients and external providers.
Requirements
- Senior corporate/M&A lawyer with 8+ years’ post-qualification experience.
- Admission to practise in the relevant jurisdiction.
- Strong M&A, corporate, commercial and transaction execution experience.
- Proven ability to lead complex legal workstreams.
- Proven ability to work independently.
- Proven ability to manage external counsel.
- Proven ability to provide clear, commercial recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent technical legal skills.
- Excellent negotiation capability.
- Excellent legal risk judgment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Commercial, pragmatic and solutions-oriented.
- Confidence operating in fast-moving, high-intensity transaction environments.
- Collaborative and relationship-focused.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Possess a “one team” approach.
- Highly organised and disciplined.
- Sound judgment on materiality, escalation and risk trade-offs across multiple workstreams and deadlines.
- Curious and improvement-oriented.
- Motivated by working in a supportive, high-performing environment.
Skills
- M&A
- Corporate law
- Commercial law
- Transaction execution
- Private markets
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Asset management
- Cross-border transactions
- Legal due diligence
- Negotiation
- Structuring
- Shareholder arrangements
- Consortium arrangements
- Debt financing
- Regulatory approvals
- NBIOs
- Term sheets
- Framework agreements
- Portfolio entity management
- Bolt-on acquisitions
- Refinancings
- Dispute resolution
- Management incentive arrangements
- Shareholder matters
- Legal risk management
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
Location
- New York
- London
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Auckland
- Abu Dhabi
- Wellington
- Singapore
Work Type
- Hybrid work
Experience Level
- 8+ years’ post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Admission to practise in the relevant jurisdiction
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + incentives
Benefits
- Flexibility
- Hybrid work
- Learning and development program
- Attractive paid parental leave
- Flexible leave options
About the Company
- Morrison is a leading global infrastructure manager, investing across the risk spectrum in both private and listed markets.
- Its purpose is to invest wisely in ideas that matter.
- It believes the best investments serve an enduring societal need and has a firm commitment to sustainability.
- Morrison manages approximately USD$30 billion (as at March 31, 2026) in consolidated assets on behalf of its clients.
- Morrison has one of the largest specialist infrastructure teams, with over 200 professionals operating across eight global offices.
- Morrison is a thematic-based investor focused on the global, long-duration verticals of energy transition, digitization & connectivity, global mobility, aging population, and circular economy & resource constraints.
- We pride ourselves on our values and our culture of working as whānau (family) and supporting each other.
- The impact of what we do is important to us.
- We invest in environmentally sustainable companies and have a strong commitment to ESG.
Equal Opportunity
- Morrison is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.
- Please let us know if you require any support or adjustments during the recruitment process.