The role:
The Clayton Utz Corporate, M&A & Capital Markets team is currently recruiting for a part-time Senior Corporate Knowledge Management Lawyer. This is an 18 month long parental leave contract.
As part of this innovative team, the role will involve:
- drafting, maintaining and developing corporate precedents;
- ensuring a consistent and market leading approach across the firm; and
- providing expert advice to the Clayton Utz Corporate, M&A & Capital Markets team.
The role and team are based in Sydney.
The role would suit a senior corporate transactions lawyer who can work autonomously and collaboratively, and who is seeking a part-time, more flexible and less time-sensitive role.
Standard working hours for the role are 3 days per week 9am-5pm and the role may be performed flexibly if needed.
Skills & Experience
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Substantial corporate transactional legal experience at a large firm.
- The ability to co-ordinate and undertake precedent development and drafting, research activities, and to draft appropriate summaries or commentaries.
- Good communication skills. Tact and an ability to deal constructively with competing interests and to prioritise those interests are a real advantage in this role.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
- The ability to conduct training sessions for practitioners at different levels, including formal presentations, workshops and one-on-one training.
The Corporate team
Clayton Utz maintains a top-tier multi-disciplinary Corporate M&A practice. Acting for many of Australia's top 100 companies and leading multinationals, we provide corporate clients with the tools needed to manage all the issues that arise in a successful company.
Our clients' business is our business. Whether it's capital raising, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions or commercial contract negotiation, we offer leading edge expertise, second-to-none execution skills and commercial judgment born from years of experience in the Australian corporate environment. For further information, please visit our Corporate page on LinkedIn.