Special Counsel / Senior Associate - Corporate & Commercial - 100% REMOTE

ALRA | Australia’s Leading Recruitment Agency; Brisbane; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Path to partnership

Flexible schedule

Job summary

This opportunity is for a Senior Associate or Special Counsel Corporate & Commercial Lawyer seeking balance between career and lifestyle. The firm operates as a fully remote practice with no billable-hour targets and offers a genuine path to partnership, flexible WFH and a focus on complex corporate work for major clients.

Based on the East Coast of Australia, the team collaborates across national and international matters in software, technology and commercial contracting, with a culture of

Qualifications

• Senior Associate or Special Counsel level experience in corporate & commercial law
• Autonomy to own matters and direct client work
• Experience with M&A, private equity or corporate advisory is valued
• Comfort working in a fully remote model with no billable hour targets
• Tech-sector clients experience advantageous but not essential

Responsibilities

• Advise on private M&A, capital raisings and IPOs for ASX-listed and other clients
• Provide ongoing commercial contracting and advisory services across industries
• Collaborate with a senior team to manage matters with limited supervision

Job description

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Associate or Special Counsel Corporate & Commercial Lawyer looking for the right balance between career and lifestyle:

• Interesting and complex work with major ASX listed, national and international clients
• Collaboration with a team of very high-quality and experienced peers (all 15+ years PQE and all joined from major international and mid-tier firms
• No billable hour targets
• Flexibility to work from home full-time, and
• A genuine path to Partnership.

This Corporate & Commercial firm was established from the outset as a fully remote practice, with everyone working from home. This means the culture, communication and way the team works together have all been built around remote working. Their processes encourage collaboration on matters, so even though staff members are based up and down the East Coast of Australia, their systems and culture are such that they remain connected - creating a sense of inclusion, support and belonging.

The firm maintains a relatively even split between corporate and commercial work, including private M&As (typically $10m-$100m), capital raisings and IPOs, ASX listing advice, and a significant commercial contracting and advisory practice.

Their clients often engage the team on monthly retainers, using them as an extension of their internal legal function. For some clients, the firm effectively operates as their outsourced legal team, so you get to know how your clients' businesses actually operate and get involved in the day-to‑day issues they face, rather than working only on discrete instructions.

This is an industry-agnostic practice, however, a significant part of the firm's growth is coming from software and technology clients. As such, experience dealing with tech-sector clients would be advantageous but not essential.

We are ideally looking for a Special Counsel level M&A and Commercial Lawyer, though we would also consider a strong Senior Associate. The key is autonomy. You need to be comfortable owning matters, settling your own work and dealing directly with clients.

This is a team of mature professionals who operate on a culture of trust and acknowledge the demands of life outside work, whether it be family, study or other outside passions. This enables flexibility around how, where and when their people work, provided they deliver on deadlines and client needs.

They have spaces in Brisbane and Melbourne that a couple of their Senior Lawyers use when they want to get out of their home offices. These are available to anyone who wants to use them, but it's not required if you'd rather WFH.