Senior Associate Corporate 7+ PQE (x2)

Auckland - New Zealand

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are looking to appoint up to 2 Senior Associates to join our national practice who will contribute to our growth and become leaders in our practice.

The team

You will be joining a high-performing professional ambitious and collaborative team led by partners who have practiced in New Zealand London and Sydney including Wook Jin Lee Joy Wang and Keegan Toft.

We have a proven track record of recognising and developing talent with genuine partnership potential for the right candidates. We support and reward excellence as demonstrated by our recent promotion of Joy Wang to the partnership within 8 years of practice.

The work

The team has a strong transactional focus and regularly acts on both inbound and outbound cross-border transactions. This team has handled many of the firms most high-profile matters advising a blue-chip client base that includes:

Listed companies both NZX NASDAQ and other recognised securities exchanges
Private equity and venture capital fund managers
Iwi and Māori enterprises
Clients across a broad range of sectors particularly technology financial services and energy

About you

You may currently be a Senior Associate or a talented mid-level lawyer ready to step up. Ideally you will have 7 years strong corporate transactional experience and a strategic mindset.

You will enjoy ownership of matters working closely with partners and clients and mentoring junior team members.

The Overseas Investment Act frequently features in our work so knowledge or experience in this area would be advantageous though not essential.

Recent noteworthy engagements

NASDAQ-listed Teradyne on the acquisition of Quantifi Photonics including coordination of multiple jurisdictions
Forsyth Barr on the sale of 25% ownership interest to funds managed by Mercury Capital
SSE-listed Huatai Securities and Huatai International Private Equity on the acquisition of Egmont Honey
NZX-listed Steel & Tube on the acquisition of Perry Metal Protection Perry Grating and Waikato Sand Blasting
NASDAQ-listed Motorola Solutions on the acquisition of Noggin IT
NZX and ASX-listed Serko on the acquisition of the GetThere business from NASDAQ-listed Sabre Corporation including coordination of multiple jurisdictions
Shuttlerock on the acquisition of Shakr Media in Korea and the US

Apply Now

If you are returning to New Zealand from overseas wed love to hear from you we can be flexible on start dates to support your move.

To apply please submit your CV and cover a confidential discussion about the role please contact Shannon Davis (Auckland) at oror alternatively Claire Wilkinson (Wellington) at.

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We are looking to appoint up to 2 Senior Associates to join our national practice who will contribute to our growth and become leaders in our practice.The teamYou will be joining a high-performing professional ambitious and collaborative team led by partners who have practiced in New Zealand London ...