Senior Associate - Commercial Litigation

The Role

This is an opportunity for a Senior Associate to join our Sydney Litigation team. Our Litigation practice offers diversity of matters which will offer intellectually complex and innovative thinking. You will join a closeknit team under the guidance of Brit Ibanez National Head of Litigation.Working closely with other Senior Lawyers of similar experience to you you will have the opportunity to develop and collaborate as well as mentor and develop Lawyers within the team.The types of matters you will be involved in includes:

• Providing officers and boards with comprehensive advice in advance of making critical board decisions and general corporate governance
• Advising insolvency practitioners and conducting litigation relating to restructures and insolvent entities.
• Defending investigations and prosecutions brought by ASIC against companies and individuals for breaches of the Corporations Act 2001.
• Resolving shareholder oppression actions.
• Conducting litigation in regards to disputed contract rights and obligations.
• Advising responsible entities and trustees on the operation and management of their schemes.
• Acting for parties in joint venture partnership and M&A disputes.
• Financial services disputes and complaints.

About you:

As a curious and analytical thinker passionate about solving challenges you will thrive in our fastpaced and collaborative culture where innovative thinking is encouraged and rewarded.

You will possess:

• At least 5 years legal experience Post Admission;
• Litigation experience ideally in a commercial litigation team;
• A genuine passion for disputes matters and a desire to develop your skills;
• A natural aptitude to mentor and develop junior team members;
• The ability to work in a close knit high performing and collaborative team; and
• An entrepreneurial and innovative mindset.

The Firm

Hamilton Locke is an international law firm evolving the traditional approach to corporate and commercial legal services. We are constantly removing the layers of bureaucracy reacting quickly to change providing exceptional service and finding creative solutions to deliver smart advice.

We have offices in Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Perth Newcastle and Auckland with our clients located across Australia New Zealand and Internationally.

We are an exciting rapidly growing firm and have consistently been recognised as Australias fastest growing law firm.

Our People Experience

Hamilton Locke is a law firm with a difference working to evolve the traditional business model. We have built a highgrowth peoplecentric business that maximises our people experience (PX) and believe this delivers the best client experience (CX). We foster a vibrant culture putting our people at the forefront of everything we do.

We are agile and flexible in our approach with innovative stateoftheart systems and technology that frees up our team from bureaucracy and administration. We actively develop a culture that supports employee health wellness and development.

Put simply we have created a work environment based on respect trust development collaboration and innovation. This allows our people to grow and be the best version of themselves. In turn this enables our people to do their best work which ultimately makes our clients happy.This is a winwinwin.

We put our peoples experience at the centre of everything we do.

We are more than just a law firm.

How do we do this Find out more here: hamiltonlocke/culture/

Whats in it for You

• Mentorship in a supportive environment with access to highquality work and professional development opportunities.
• A fun collaborative and highperforming team environment with regular social events training days and team retreats.
• Competitive remuneration package including equity pursuant to the Groups ESS.
• An extra weeks leave as part of our employee personal development program.
• Fullday birthday leave.
• A clear and transparent performance bonus scheme.
• Support in building client relationships.

How to Apply

We prefer to work directly with candidates. If you are interested in this role please click the Apply button or contact the consultant below for more information.

For more information on Hamilton Locke please visit https://hamiltonlocke/ or follow us on LinkedIn here.

Accessibility and Inclusion

At Hamilton Locke our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our peoples differences across gender gender identity sexual orientation age ability cultural backgrounds and family and caring arrangements.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive barrierfree recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application please contact us at .

Agency Submissions

Hamilton Locke does not accept agency submissions unless specifically contacted by a member of the Recruitment Team.

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