Senior Private Client & Wealth Counsel

JLegal; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JLegal is expanding its Sydney and Melbourne private clients practice, seeking Senior Associate/Special Counsel with 5+ years PAE to work across advisory and transactional matters for private individuals, families and family offices.

The role offers significant client exposure and development of long‑term advisory relationships, collaborating with lawyers across complementary practices to deliver sophisticated wealth planning, governance and investment structuring.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5+ years of post-admission experience gained within private practice.
• Strong technical legal capability and commercial judgement.
• Experience managing complex or high-value matters with an appropriate level of independence.
• The ability to consider legal issues within the context of broader commercial and personal objectives.
• Strong drafting, analytical and communication skills.
• Confidence dealing directly with clients and external professional advisers.
• A high degree of discretion when handling confidential and sensitive matters.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop trusted, long-term client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Establishing, reviewing and restructuring family office arrangements.
• Advising on governance frameworks for families, private investment structures and family-owned enterprises.
• Assisting with the acquisition and disposal of privately held businesses and other significant assets.
• Advising on private M&A, investments and capital transactions.
• Structuring trusts and other vehicles used for holding and protecting family wealth.
• Advising on succession arrangements and the transition of ownership and control between generations.
• Preparing and advising on agreements governing family, business and investment relationships.
• Assisting with estate and broader wealth planning matters.
• Establishing and advising on charitable, philanthropic and social investment structures.
• Coordinating legal and commercial advice where clients have multiple interconnected business, investment and personal interests.

Skills

Private wealth

Family office

M&A experience

Tax

Trusts

Succession planning

Drafting

Client relationship management

Commercial judgement

Discretion

Interpersonal skills

Job description

JLegal is expanding its Sydney and Melbourne private clients practice, seeking Senior Associate/Special Counsel with 5+ years PAE to work across advisory and transactional matters for private individuals, families and family offices.

The role offers significant client exposure and development of long‑term advisory relationships, collaborating with lawyers across complementary practices to deliver sophisticated wealth planning, governance and investment structuring.