Jobs at Clayton Utz

Advise clients on workplace relations, employment, industrial relations, discrimination, work health and safety, investigations, and litigation. The role involves managing diverse matters across courts and tribunals, supervising and mentoring junior lawyers, providing practical client service, and contributing to business development through seminars and publications.

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.

Support risk advisory engagements for financial services clients, including risk management frameworks, regulatory compliance advice, governance reviews, and regulatory enforcement and investigation matters. Collaborate with legal, risk, data, and technology professionals to deliver strategic, practical solutions and help clients navigate complex regulatory environments.

Join Clayton Utz’s Sydney commercial and projects team advising major transport, logistics, telecommunications, airport, rail, port, and digital infrastructure clients. Responsibilities include commercial transactions, procurement, project delivery, regulatory matters, contract drafting and negotiation, operational issues, and asset management. The role offers broad transactional exposure, client secondment opportunities, and collaboration across the firm.

Senior Associate supporting complex restructuring, insolvency, receivership, distressed debt, financing, workouts, and special situations matters for financial institutions, companies, financiers, and insolvency practitioners. The role involves technically sound legal drafting, client relationship management, collaboration across practice groups, and delivering high-quality advice within a nationally coordinated team. Candidates need at least five years’ post-qualification experience, preferably from a leading commercial law firm, with transactional banking or finance experience viewed favorably.

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.

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.

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.

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