Jobs at Clayton Utz

Advise financial institutions, companies, funds, directors, insolvency practitioners, and investors on restructurings, workouts, complex financing arrangements, special situations, and corporate insolvency. Draft high-quality legal documents, develop client relationships, collaborate across practice groups, and support clients on complex restructuring and insolvency matters within a national top-tier law firm.

Advise domestic and global clients on Australian and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public and private capital raisings, IPOs, strategic corporate matters, governance, shareholder activism, and ASX listing rules. The role involves leading transactions, managing projects autonomously, building client relationships, and collaborating with partners and senior leaders.

Conduct initial and enhanced client due diligence, risk screenings, beneficial ownership research, ongoing monitoring, and AML/CTF risk assessments. Maintain accurate client records, interpret regulations and internal policies, escalate higher-risk issues, advise stakeholders on CDD processes, and help improve compliance procedures.

Manage a portfolio of corporate events from initial brief through planning, delivery, and follow-up. Partner with senior stakeholders to shape event objectives, audiences, formats, and experiences. Coordinate suppliers, venues, invitations, registrations, budgets, sponsorships, and event-day logistics. Use HubSpot, event technology, data, and emerging AI tools to improve engagement and future events. Contribute to broader client, marketing, and business development initiatives while supporting the national Events team.

Develop and maintain corporate legal precedents, practice notes, and know-how resources; monitor legal and regulatory developments; support complex transactions; and promote knowledge sharing, legal technology, AI tools, training, and transformation initiatives across the Corporate, M&A, and Capital Markets practice.

Advises financial services clients on investment funds, superannuation, managed investment schemes, licensing, governance, disclosure, distribution, regulatory compliance, and complex domestic and international transactions. Leads matters independently, supervises junior lawyers, drafts high-quality legal documents, supports business development, and provides commercially focused advice across traditional and emerging financial products.

Manage the NSW Government account and Projects practice initiatives, including client relationship development, strategic growth opportunities, pitches, pursuits, client engagement, market profile raising, content and media support, and emerging service promotion. The role also involves mentoring team members, managing stakeholders, supporting firm strategy, and delivering business-critical projects within a legal professional services environment.

Lead risk advisory engagements for tier‑1 financial services clients, advising on regulatory compliance, risk frameworks, governance, investigations, and implementation. Provide strategic, hands‑on support across design and execution of risk management programs, collaborate with legal, data and technology teams, and present practical commercial solutions to senior stakeholders and c-suite executives.

Advises on enterprise risk and compliance across national operations, including third-party and supplier risk, modern slavery compliance, policies, internal queries, reporting, business continuity, crisis management, governance forums, and risk-awareness training. The role partners with senior risk leadership and business teams to maintain compliance frameworks, prepare dashboards and risk appetite statements, and promote a proactive risk culture.

Lead the national billing and e-billing function, manage a billing team, ensure accurate compliant invoicing, drive process automation and KPI monitoring, resolve complex billing issues, and collaborate with finance and commercial stakeholders.

Advise blue-chip private and public sector clients on employment law, workplace relations, safety, disputes, investigations, discrimination, harassment, restraints, corporate transactions, whistleblowing, and modern slavery. Manage matters across courts and tribunals, contribute to business development, build client relationships, publish thought leadership, deliver seminars, and pursue ongoing professional development within a supportive team.

Deliver legal technology, AI-enabled workflows, and eDiscovery services for complex legal matters. Partner with lawyers and clients to design defensible data solutions using platforms such as Relativity, Harvey AI, Mary Technology, and CaseTrace. The role involves technical problem-solving, data analysis, project coordination, client engagement, communicating complex concepts clearly, managing multiple deadlines, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Provide commercial and infrastructure legal advice across transport, logistics and digital infrastructure sectors. Work on transactions, procurement, project delivery, regulatory matters, drafting and negotiating contracts, client advisory, and asset lifecycle issues. Collaborate firm-wide and may undertake client secondments.

Lead adviser in employment law and workplace relations, handling high-stakes disputes, tribunal and court matters, investigations, discrimination and harassment, WHS, post-employment restraints, modern slavery and employment aspects of corporate transactions. Mentor junior lawyers, build client relationships and contribute to business development and thought leadership.

This role seeks lawyers with over 5 years of commercial legal experience for flexible opportunities at Clayton Utz, requiring right to work in Australia.