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About the Role
This role sits within Baker McKenzie's broader Transactional Practice Group in Sydney, focusing on Funds Associate legal work. You will provide commercially astute advice to major Australian and global companies, fund managers, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds, with a primary focus on transactional matters including capital raising, investments, and M&A, alongside regulatory advice on fund formation and operations.
Responsibilities
- Assisting funds on raising capital
- Undertaking investments and M&A transactions
- Advising sponsors and managers on all regulatory aspects of fund formation, capital raisings and operating an investment management business
Requirements
- 3-4 years' experience in Funds
- Relevant experience in a top-tier or leading international firm preferred
- Strong client service orientation
- Strong technical and drafting skills
- Business development aptitude, interest, and experience
- Relevant legal qualifications with a strong academic background
- Excellent analytical, communication and research skills
- Commitment to high work standards and strong attention to detail
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and proactivity
- Ability to work well in a team environment (including across Australian offices and internationally)
- Willingness to learn
- Willingness to develop others through mentoring and sharing experiences
Skills
- Technical skills
- Drafting skills
- Business development
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- Research skills
- Attention to detail
- Initiative
- Proactivity
- Teamwork
- Mentoring
- Sharing experiences
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full Time
Experience Level
- 3-4 years' PQE
Education Level
- Relevant legal qualifications with a strong academic background
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive remuneration package
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration package
- Generous bonus scheme
- Salary continuance insurance
- Life insurance
- Salary sacrifice options
- Employee discounts
- Referral rewards
- Travel insurance for you and your family
- Client and international office secondments
- Regional and global development programs
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
- 26 weeks paid parental leave for all parents with no minimum service
- Ability to purchase additional annual leave
- Flexible public holidays
- Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling and wellbeing and financial coaching for you and your immediate family
- Flu vaccinations
- Discounted health insurance
About the Company
- Baker McKenzie is the first local, truly global law firm in Australia, with operations commencing in Sydney in 1964, Melbourne in 1982, and Brisbane in 2014.
- Our lawyers work seamlessly with global colleagues, collectively providing a capacity of over 13,000 people, including over 6,500 lawyers.
- We drive growth that is both sustainable and inclusive.
- Baker McKenzie Australia offers access to complex, market-leading matters working with some of the world's best legal minds.
- We have an unrivalled ability to provide training and secondment opportunities across our global network.
- Locally, we have an inclusive culture of learning, coaching, and opportunity where you will work in small teams on matters that often cross borders.
- We value people who think ahead and get noticed.
Equal Opportunity
- Baker McKenzie is committed to providing a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for all its employees, with equal opportunity for all to progress and have a meaningful career with our Firm.
- We welcome applications from people of all genders (including if you identify as transgender or gender diverse), sexual orientations, abilities, cultural backgrounds, as well as First Nations peoples and people with caring responsibilities, neurodivergent lived experiences and disabilities.
- We want all applicants to be given the best possible opportunity to succeed in our recruitment processes, so invite you to let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to equitably participate in our recruitment processes or in performing the requirements of a role at Baker McKenzie.
- Please contact us so that we can work with you to best support you in our recruitment processes.
- We are happy to share accommodations we've made in the past and are keen to work with you personally, to set you up for success.