Restructuring/Insolvency Litigation Lawyer (2yrs-Senior Associate)

AFL Recruitment - Accounting Financial Legal; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home after probation

Mentorship by senior partners

Directorship/equity potential

Job summary

A highly respected mid-tier law firm in Sydney seeks a Restructuring/Insolvency Litigation Lawyer (2yrs-Senior Associate) to join its growing practice. The role offers autonomy to manage own clients and cases, with a mix of litigation and advisory work in restructurings, insolvencies, and related proceedings.

You will work within a premier team led by industry-leading partners, with hybrid working arrangements and opportunities for growth, including potential leadership paths as the practice

Qualifications

• Admitted as a lawyer in NSW with 2+ years post-admission or more (up to senior associate).
• Experience in restructuring/insolvency law or general commercial litigation with insolvency interest.
• Reputable law firms background preferred and client-facing experience.

Responsibilities

• Advise and litigate on insolvency issues across a full spectrum of matters.
• Manage your own cases and clients from start to finish autonomously.
• Engage in front-end advisory/transactional work where applicable and balance caseloads.

Skills

Insolvency law

Litigation

Admitted NSW lawyer

Education

Admitted NSW lawyer

Job description

Restructuring/Insolvency Litigation Lawyer (2yrs-Senior Associate)

$90,000 - $190,000 a year

Hybrid

4mo ago , from AFL Recruitment - Accounting Financial Legal

Restructuring/Insolvency Litigation Lawyer (2yrs-Senior Associate)

Early Promotion Empowering career +Enviable future. Premier firm. Top quality work/clients. 5-star partners. Lovable culture/values. Life friendly/WFH. $90,000-$190,000. Sydney.

Our client is a highly respected renowned mid-tier law firm led by industry-leading partners with50+ years’ successwith aflourishingand expanding well-established restructuring/corporate & personal insolvency practicewith sophisticated clients (international, regional and local insolvency practitioners as well as for directors, creditors and individuals) led byindustry-leading Doyles’ Guide recommended partners.

Top legal professionals love working here (long term-even decades!) because of itsrefreshing ‘real’ authentic+down-to-earth people culture that values excellence+integrity+inclusion +growth+human relationships and generosity.

As a key valued lawyer in their winning Restructuring/Insolvency team (15) led by industry-leading partners and reporting to the head senior partner -a highly esteemed well known (recognised by Doyles as a Leader in insolvency law ), you will relish theautonomy+ variety +satisfaction having your own practice+ clientsadvising+ litigating on a full spectrum of issues including technical insolvency/bankruptcy advice, restructuring transactional work and insolvency/bankruptcy related litigation in the Supreme/Federal Courts/tribunals.

Flexibility to tailor-make the role to be more heavily weighted towards litigation or front-end advisory/transactional depending on your experience/preference.

Also additional ‘STRETCH/GROWTH opportunities to:

• partake in business development/marketing;
• lead/mentorjunior lawyers(if you are a senior lawyer).

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Inherit+ benefit from this firm’sreputation+astoundingly long provensuccess spanning over 50+ years with a successful well-established growing restructuring/insolvency practice;

Industry leading multi-award winning senior partner as your mentor;

Stimulating+ challenging+ interestingwork (lots of variety)including high-end clients;

More frequent $$ reviews(subject to your performance);

Exciting real career pathincluding genuinedirectorship/equity in the future(subject to your ambition+ performance + own client base);

Delightful Camaraderie+ People+Relationship focused+ Family-Like Collaborative Positiveculture where you can makeeven make friends+have somefunwith genuinely friendly+ positive colleagues/managers (without the nasty politics);

Resources+supportfor you to fulfil your fullpotential;

Genuine work/lifeBALANCE+flexibility for somework from home(after probation).

WHO YOU ARE

We are interested in hearing from you if you:

are admitted as a lawyer in NSW+haveminimum2 yearspost-admission orMORE(up to senior associate level) practising inrestructuring/insolvency law (preferably) OR general commercial litigation (with keen interest in insolvency if no prior experience) with reputable lawfirms;

have proven ability to highly autonomously manageyour own cases+ clients from start tofinish;

have strongtechnicalknowledge+ advocacy skills, areresults-focused, proactive,practicalwithstrong time prioritisationskills;

arehungry to advance your careerlong-term with a premier firm where you cangrow+advance.