Finance Solicitor / Senior Solicitor

Chapman Tripp; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Annual wellbeing allowance

Team events

Job summary

Chapman Tripp’s Auckland Finance Practice is seeking a solicitor with 3 to 7 years of PQE to join the team focusing on corporate and institutional finance.

The role involves providing legal advice and transactional support on general lending, project finance and securitisation, working closely with partners on market-leading transactions for domestic and international clients. A collaborative, high-performance culture awaits.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years PQE in corporate/finance law.
• Experience advising on market-leading finance transactions.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on general lending, project finance and securitisation.
• Support and collaborate with partners on major finance transactions for domestic and international clients.

Skills

Corporate finance

Lending transactions

Securitisation

Transactional drafting

Job description

Chapman Tripp’s Auckland Finance Practice is looking for a Solicitor or Senior Solicitor to join the highly successful team, with a focus on corporate and institutional finance.

The role works closely with partner Gerard Souness, Cathryn Barber and Jana Hitchcock on market-leading finance transactions for prestigious domestic and international corporate, financial institutions and borrower clients. This role would focus on providing legal advice and transactional support on general lending, project finance and securitisation matters.

Our Auckland team has recently advised:

• InfraRed Capital Partners and Northleaf Capital on their acquisition of, and $1.3bn syndicated acquisition funding for, 80% of Vodafone NZ’s passive mobile tower business;
• ANZ, BNZ, Westpac, Kiwibank and independent security trustee, New Zealand Guardian Trust, providing c.NZ$600m syndicated project financings to Te Runanga o Toa Rangatira for the purchase of 40+ school properties from the Crown as a party of their Treaty settlements;
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board on the syndicated financing for its NZ$1.15 billion acquisition of 70% of Spark New Zealand’s passive mobile tower business (that business became Connexa Limited, post-acquisition);
• BNZ, ANZ and Société Générale as Arranger and Joint Lead Managers on the $650m public term securitisation for UDC Finance in 2024. This deal is the largest term securitisation transaction in New Zealand to date. We have advised the Joint Lead Managers for UDC’s public terms deals every year since its inaugural issue in 2021; and
• Kathmandu Holdings Limited on a three-year AU$300m debt refinancing facility which included, at AU$100m, the largest syndicated sustainability linked loan to be established by a New Zealand corporate.

Chapman Tripp has been named NZ Firm of the Year at the 2024 IFLR Asia-Pacific and KangaNews awards and 2025 Law Firm of the Year at the Asia Pacific Chambers Awards, so you will be working with high performing individuals on satisfying work.

If you are a talented solicitor with 3 to 7 years PQE, wanting a step up or a new challenge, we think we have the best team, work, culture and opportunity to develop your career.

Working with Chapman Tripp:

• Top-tier clients and work
• Flexible working style and supportive leadership
• Inclusive culture and team
• Ongoing learning and development and formal mentoring programme
• Comprehensive salary and benefits package including healthcare and annual wellbeing allowance
• Groups and activities to suit your interests: sports, arts & culture, regular team and firm events for connection

We are a collaborative workplace of smart, passionate and hardworking people, united by a commitment to excellence. Work for Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest legal partnership and enjoy a firm which has the resources and structures in place for you to do your best work; as well as people who are caring, inclusive and authentic.