Current Opportunities

Corporate Lawyer | 2-7 years PQE

The role

We are looking for a client-centric and personable Associate or Senior Associate to join our high performing Perth Corporate and Commercial team. Working directly with an industry leading Partner recognised in The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Paul Sartori, this is a rare and exciting opportunity.

The work will involve advising public and private companies on transactions and corporate compliance issues, with a focus on the mining and resources, property and construction, education, hospitality and manufacturing sectors, among others.

We offer a highly competitive remuneration package to attract the very best people to our growing Perth office and a real opportunity to develop skills in an interesting, challenging and vibrant area of legal practice.

Your experience

To succeed in this role, you will ideally have:

• 2-7 years post-admission corporate/commercial experience.
• Preferable experience working with medium-large corporations advising on mergers and acquisitions and various joint venture and shareholder investment arrangements.
• Excellent written and verbal skills that are client-centric.
• High level of attention to detail whilst working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Strong work ethic with a fun, engaging personality.
• Commitment to building expertise and ongoing learning.

The Firm

Piper Alderman is a premier commercial law firm with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne. We work with clients across Australia and internationally to achieve practical commercial outcomes, innovation in service delivery and deep engagement across multiple industries. Our lawyers are recognised as leaders in their fields.

At Piper Alderman we promote a culture of excellence, collaboration and teamwork. We recognise and support the contributions of our team members and invest in their continued professional development.

Our Perth office has been steadily growing since it opened in 2021. Although Piper Alderman is relatively new to the Perth market, our partners and senior lawyers based in Perth have extensive knowledge and experience working on some of the most challenging legal matters in Western Australia, as well as nationally and internationally. Our Perth office provides one of the rare opportunities to work directly with those partners and senior lawyers and our clients.

Apply today

Piper Alderman values diversity of thought and experience and aims to ensure all our people are valued and respected. We make every effort to attract and retain the best people and provide an environment where those people can achieve their aspirations.  Although we offer the usual perks, we are also interested to understand what motivates you. Some of the benefits we offer are:

• A variety of health and wellbeing initiatives including our Thrive@PiperAlderman Wellbeing Program.
• Learning and development opportunities to support career growth including generous study support options.
• An attractive parental leave policy offering up to 26 weeks paid leave.
• Purchased annual leave options.
• A range of fun office and team events all year round so we make sure we are connecting socially as often as possible!
• A range of corporate discounts.
• Employee-led Diversity & Inclusion and Reconciliation Committees and the opportunity to participate in pro-bono work.

Please submit an application by clicking the relevant link in this job advertisement. Please note, no applications will be accepted directly via email.