Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Sydney

Serve as primary employment counsel for APAC, advising People teams and business leaders across Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, and India. Build legal infrastructure for market entry, workforce structuring, compensation, benefits, employee relations, disputes, privacy, and AI-related employment regulations. Develop scalable compliance templates, playbooks, training, and guidance while managing outside counsel and collaborating across time zones.

Provides legal and regulatory advice across consumer credit, financial services, commercial agreements, privacy, governance, disputes, and product development. Drafts and negotiates contracts, supports regulatory breach investigations and remediation, reviews marketing materials, handles complaints, and advises senior stakeholders on commercial and legal risks within a fintech lending business.

Senior Legal Counsel supporting major infrastructure and engineering projects across APAC. Responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts; advising project, technical, and operational teams; managing legal issues involving employment, privacy, intellectual property, disputes, compliance, and governance; and supporting projects from procurement through delivery and dispute resolution.

Provide legal, risk, and governance advice on consultancy, advisory, digital, and infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include contract review and negotiation, dispute management, transaction and compliance support, cyber, data and AI matters, stakeholder collaboration, and employee training. The role also advises senior leadership and manages competing priorities across a fast-paced, matrix organization.

Provides commercially focused legal advice across mortgage broking, lending, franchising, technology, data, AI, privacy, regulatory compliance, and corporate matters. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements, advises on responsible AI governance and customer information, supports strategic initiatives and regulatory engagements, manages legal risks and external counsel, and improves legal processes and tools.

Provides commercially focused legal advice to the Reserve Bank of Australia on banking, payments, financial markets, regulatory, transactional, and financial stability matters. The role involves advising senior leaders, analyzing complex legal issues, assessing risk, drafting legal documents and advice, and building effective stakeholder relationships within a collaborative legal team.

Provides legal counsel primarily for Australia, with support for New Zealand and Singapore. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating vendor, finance, security, and priority agreements; maintaining standard documentation; supporting disputes, insolvency, collections, compliance, AML/CTF, privacy, and marketing review; and managing external counsel. The role requires collaboration with credit, compliance, sales, and other stakeholders in a fast-paced finance environment.

Provide strategic legal and regulatory advice across financial services, wealth management, lending, investments, corporate transactions, governance, and commercial contracts. Draft and negotiate sophisticated agreements, advise on AFSL, AML/CTF, privacy and Corporations Act obligations, support board matters and strategic projects, and manage external counsel. Partner closely with executives to deliver pragmatic legal solutions in a global private wealth management environment.

Provides legal advice across water, environmental, property, litigation, and commercial law. The role partners with business units, identifies legal risks, supports commercial and customer outcomes, and works autonomously while reporting to the General Counsel. Candidates must hold a law degree, be admitted or eligible for admission to practice in Victoria, and have up to six years of practising experience. Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, process-optimization, and commercial skills are required.

Provides commercial legal advice to Buildings and Transportation project teams. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates consultancy agreements, subcontracts, joint ventures, confidentiality agreements, and other project contracts. Advises on tenders, procurement, risk allocation, disputes, claims, governance, compliance, intellectual property, insurance, and commercial matters throughout project delivery. Collaborates with business leaders and multidisciplinary teams across major infrastructure and professional services projects.

Provide pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice across corporate, commercial, privacy, consumer and regulatory matters. Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, review customer-facing materials, manage legal risk and external providers, support governance and compliance, deliver legal training, and partner with senior stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance across the HCF Group.

Provide commercial, transactional, regulatory, and legal advice across renewable energy projects throughout development, construction, operations, and project finance. Draft and review NDAs, consultancy agreements, and other business documentation; support negotiations, manage legal risks, and collaborate with internal stakeholders and external counsel in a fast-paced environment.

Provides commercial and corporate legal advice to business units, management, and the Board. Responsibilities include reviewing and negotiating commercial, IT, and supplier agreements; advising on superannuation regulations; supporting strategic initiatives; contributing to policies, governance reporting, and Board submissions; managing stakeholder relationships; and delivering legal training.

Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice across mortgage broking, lending, franchising, technology, privacy, AI, data, and regulatory matters. Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements; advise on new products and initiatives; manage legal and regulatory risk; support customer complaints; improve legal processes; and coordinate external counsel. The role partners closely with stakeholders across a fast-moving, regulated financial services business.

Provide pragmatic commercial legal guidance across Propeller’s global operations. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating customer and vendor contracts, supporting sales and corporate transactions, advising Marketing and RevOps, managing GDPR and privacy compliance, interpreting international laws, overseeing disputes, and improving legal processes. The role also supports fundraising, M&A, governance, and regulatory compliance for AI-enabled SaaS products.

Provides commercially focused legal advice to Sydney Airport, primarily supporting airline relationships and strategic growth initiatives. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, advising on transactions, managing legal risk, monitoring regulatory developments, supporting disputes, training stakeholders, maintaining legal templates, and overseeing external legal advisors. The role requires autonomous work, strong stakeholder relationships, and practical legal judgment across commercial, technology, data-sharing, consumer law, and marketing matters.

Provide in‑house legal advice on employment matters, manage investigations and litigation (Fair Work Commission/AHRC and courts), draft responsive documents, coordinate with external counsel, assist with subpoenas and regulatory responses, and advise on employment policies and workers compensation issues.

Provide day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to the business.

Serve as legal domain expert bridging clients and internal engineering to define negotiation playbooks, translate legal rules into prompts/specs, validate AI outputs, lead UAT, and guide integration of GenAI and CLM contract tools for complex commercial negotiation workflows.

Act as a bilingual legal-technology expert architecting AI-powered contract solutions and drafting CLM redlining rules (80%). Serve as legal tech SME in client meetings, test and improve AI legal tools, train global teams, and handle in-house client/supplier contracts, compliance, and corporate governance (20%).

Provide hands-on commercial legal support for high-volume IT and technology contracts, including drafting, negotiating and advising on SaaS, cloud and software licensing, vendor and outsourcing agreements, and collaborating with procurement across contracting workflows.

Provide commercial and regulatory legal advice across APAC; draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts; support procurement, sales, tenders and corporate governance; manage licences and external advisers; deliver legal training; drive process improvements and support cross-jurisdictional compliance.

Provide multi-jurisdictional employment law advice for Oyster's EOR platform: maintain templates and policies, support product and HR teams, manage cross-border compliance, liaise with outside counsel, handle audits and regulatory inquiries, and drive process improvements and AI/automation initiatives to scale employment compliance.

Provide practical, commercial employment and workplace relations legal advice across the organisation, manage disputes and Fair Work matters, support restructures, acquisitions and major people initiatives, develop governance and compliance solutions, manage external providers and legal spend, and build legal capability across the business.

Advise internal teams and product stakeholders on multi-jurisdictional employment law matters for an Employer of Record platform. Maintain templates, policies, and compliance documentation; monitor global legislative changes; support cross-border hiring, terminations, benefits, and immigration issues; liaise with outside counsel; contribute to product design and strategic initiatives; drive process improvements and automation (including AI tools) to scale employment compliance globally.