Solicitor – Finance

Finance, Projects & Restructuring

Job Reference

5037

Function

Finance, Projects & Restructuring

Category

Lawyers

Location

Sydney, Australia

The role

Role: Solicitor, DLA Piper
Experience: 2 – 5 years PQE
Area: Finance – transactional finance (real estate lending , corporate and acquisition finance, asset finance, structured finance)
Sectors: Financial institutions, banking;  real estate – development and investment; retail, hospitality & hotels; healthcare; energy & resources

DLA Piper understands that you’re building a future, which is why we encourage you to reach your full potential. To explore the opportunities and choices that shape your individual career journey. Here, personal growth goes hand in hand with professional development. 

That’s our commitment. This is your opportunity. 

DLA Piper’s Finance practice is growing, and we are looking for a high performing Solicitor (ideally with 2 – 5 years’ experience) based in Sydney to join the team. This is your opportunity to join a leading team and develop your career, working closely with our finance partners including Hugo Thistlewood and Alex Regan on a range of market leading transactions, with specialisation in corporate debt finance and real estate finance. 

Our team works across various sectors, including real estate, retail and hospitality, hotels, energy and natural resources, healthcare and insurance. The role works within the team to provide our clients focused, innovative sector advice and solutions. Our clients benefit from a valuable combination of global insight and local knowledge that enables us to advise on all legal aspects of their strategic endeavours.

To support in your success and progression, you will benefit from access to our award-winning international development forum designed to cultivate high performance and support your career goals.

This is a truly exciting time to join a diverse and collaborative team where every voice is heard, and your success is recognised. So, find out more about being valued for who you are as well as what you do, in a global law firm that commits to you and your career.

Together, we can make business better. Apply now and be part of our future.

ABOUT US

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

OUR VALUES

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

  • Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
  • Be Collaborative – we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
  • Be Bold – we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
  • Be Exceptional – we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

HYBRID WORKING

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

PRE-ENGAGEMENT SCREENING

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.