Jobs at Gilbert + Tobin

Advise clients on competition, consumer, and market regulation matters, including mergers, ACCC clearances, investigations, litigation, cartel conduct, economic regulation, regulatory design, legislative reform, and consumer protection. The role requires strong legal drafting, technical expertise, client management, autonomous work, and collaboration within a high-performing practice.

Leads complex legal informatics matters involving eDiscovery, investigations, document management, data analytics, and legal technology. Advises lawyers and clients, oversees Relativity workflows, develops technical standards and quality controls, implements AI and automation, manages teams, and handles delivery, risk, stakeholder, commercial, and financial responsibilities across critical legal matters.

Leads legal informatics services across eDiscovery, document reviews, data rooms, due diligence, analytics, and legal technology workflows. Manages Relativity-based processing, AI-assisted review, data quality, integrations, automation, and technical support for complex legal matters. Advises lawyers and clients, coordinates delivery, supervises technical staff, manages stakeholders and budgets, and improves repeatable workflows using scripting, data analysis, and cloud technologies.

Manage large-scale eDiscovery and document review matters using Relativity, including data imports, processing, analytics, quality control, auditing, and exports. Support legal teams with Harvey vaults, virtual data rooms, deal rooms, and technology-enabled workflows. Develop and improve legal informatics processes, validate AI-assisted reviews, manage large datasets, and provide technical support during court proceedings and inquiries.

This general referral posting allows Gilbert + Tobin employees to recommend candidates for future opportunities in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. Applicants are added to the firm’s Talent Community and contacted when a suitable open role becomes available.

Leads end-user computing, enterprise applications support, and document automation teams. Oversees digital workplace performance, incident and change management, endpoint lifecycle, application upgrades, integrations, releases, vendor performance, licensing, and operational readiness. Drives cloud transition, standardization, automation, security controls, and service improvements using operational data. Acts as the senior escalation point and advises stakeholders on service performance, risks, priorities, and remediation.

Corporate lawyer role focused on equity capital markets and public and private M&A transactions. Responsibilities include advising listed companies on IPOs, equity raisings, acquisitions, disclosure obligations, ASX Listing Rules, and corporate governance. The role offers exposure to major transactions, hands-on partner mentorship, and opportunities to develop commercially astute legal judgment across ECM and M&A matters.

Advise Australian and multinational clients on employment law matters, including litigation, workplace investigations, whistleblower issues, M&A employment aspects, contracts, industrial relations, workplace change, terminations, and health and safety investigations. The role requires managing both advisory and litigation work, preparing clear legal advice, solving complex problems, building client relationships, and collaborating effectively.

Advises sponsors, borrowers, and lenders on project finance transactions across infrastructure, energy, resources, PPPs, and social housing. Responsibilities include analyzing, negotiating, and drafting financing documents, working with clients, supporting complex transactions, and collaborating with senior lawyers. The role suits lawyers with at least three years of post-qualification experience and finance exposure, particularly project finance, property finance, or general banking experience.

First Nations Legal Cadets gain practical legal experience while completing an LLB or JD. Working one to two days per week during semester, cadets rotate across legal practice areas, collaborate with specialist lawyers, and receive mentoring and structured support. Applicants must identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, be enrolled in law studies, and attend a Sydney, Melbourne, or Perth office. Applications require a cover letter, CV, and academic transcripts.

Advise banks, insurers, fintechs, funds and other financial services clients on regulatory compliance, licensing, governance, accountability, investigations, enforcement, remediation, transactions and regulatory reform. Work includes AFSL and ACL obligations, FAR and BEAR frameworks, ASIC and APRA engagement, AML/CTF, privacy, payments, digital regulation and fintech matters. The role requires strong drafting, analytical, proactive and commercially minded skills, with direct client and regulator exposure.

Work with leading M&A partners on complex private and public transactions. Responsibilities include advising clients, drafting legal documents, providing practical and commercially minded advice, managing transaction matters, developing client relationships, and contributing to a high-performing corporate advisory team.

Advise clients on complex public and private M&A, equity capital markets, joint ventures, and corporate governance matters. Draft and analyze legal documents, provide strategic and commercial advice, and support landmark transactions alongside leading corporate partners. The role requires strong technical, analytical, drafting, and client advisory skills, plus a collaborative, outcome-focused approach.

Advises on high-profile private and public mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions. The role involves working with leading M&A partners, drafting legal documents and advice, analyzing complex matters, managing transaction-related projects, developing client relationships, and delivering practical, commercial solutions in a fast-paced legal environment.

Conduct high-quality legal document reviews and related tasks, including chronologies, statements, and submissions. Support document review management by answering queries, monitoring progress, ensuring processes are followed, escalating issues, and implementing solutions. Participate in debriefings, quality assurance activities, and review meetings while helping improve future matters. Use platforms such as Relativity or NUIX in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment.

Advises clients on complex energy, resources, and infrastructure transactions across project development, acquisitions, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. Manages workstreams, assesses transaction structures and risk allocation, engages with clients and stakeholders, and contributes to high-value matters while developing sector expertise.

Manage billing and invoicing, including account preparation, amendments, and finalization. Handle debtor management, invoice queries, client disbursement payments, trust account records, reconciliations, fund allocations, and financial reporting. Provide billing and trust-related client communication while supporting lawyers and the Intellectual Property team with file management, general administration, and project work.

Advise investment funds and fund managers on fund establishment, regulatory matters, FIRB, fund manager M&A, fund launches, and financial services regulation. Draft fund documents including scheme constitutions, limited partnership agreements, trust deeds, management agreements, custodian agreements, and co-investment agreements. Build client relationships and deliver complex, high-profile transactions collaboratively.

Advise Australian and multinational clients on employment litigation, workplace investigations, whistleblower matters, M&A employment issues, contracts, industrial relations, workplace changes, terminations, and health and safety prosecutions. The role requires managing both advisory and litigation matters, drafting clear legal advice, solving complex problems, making sound decisions, and building effective client relationships independently and collaboratively.

Advise clients on complex public and private M&A, equity capital markets, joint ventures, and corporate governance matters. The role involves working with leading partners on high-value transactions, applying strong drafting, analytical, technical, and client advisory skills, and delivering practical, commercial legal advice. Candidates will join the Sydney Corporate Advisory team and contribute collaboratively to landmark domestic and cross-border transactions.