Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Sydney

Provides commercial legal advice across contracts, procurement, tenders, software licences, intellectual property, corporate governance, property, disputes, and regulatory matters. Drafts and negotiates agreements, maintains legal templates, supports litigation and company secretarial activities, and delivers legal guidance to business stakeholders. This is a 12-month maximum-term contract requiring Australian legal admission and strong commercial judgment.

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.

Provides commercially focused legal advice across contract negotiation, corporate governance, compliance, dispute resolution, privacy, data protection, technology procurement, and legal operations. Partners with Sales, Procurement, Delivery, and Operations teams, drafts and reviews commercial agreements, manages legal risk, maintains templates and playbooks, and supports strategic initiatives alongside the General Counsel.

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.

Legal Counsel advising CIMIC Group on infrastructure, engineering, construction, renewable energy, data centre, PPP, and operations projects. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, supporting tenders, advising project teams on procurement and contract administration, assessing legal and commercial risks, interpreting agreements, monitoring legislation, delivering legal training, and providing general operational legal advice.

Provides strategic legal and commercial advice across major infrastructure, engineering, renewable energy, data centre, construction, services and PPP projects. Leads contract negotiations, assesses project risks, advises on procurement and contract administration, manages disputes and external counsel, monitors regulatory developments, delivers legal training, and mentors legal team members.

Provides legal and regulatory advice to AMP’s superannuation and investment platform business. Responsibilities include advising on product development, platform structures, investment offerings, regulated documents, marketing, incidents, regulatory notifications, conflicts of interest, investor remediation, platform initiatives, and Board matters. The role requires deep financial services law expertise, strong stakeholder management, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.

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 commercially focused legal advice across mortgage broking, lending, franchising, technology, data, AI initiatives, privacy, regulatory matters, and corporate activities. Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, advise on legal and regulatory risks, support customer and regulator matters, improve legal processes, and manage external counsel and legal budgets.

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.

Provides legal and compliance advice across multiple jurisdictions, serving as Data Protection Officer and Legal Compliance Officer. Administers the privacy program, assesses data processing, advises cross-functional teams on global data protection regulations, drafts privacy notices and data processing agreements, manages records of processing activities, evaluates risks, handles data subject requests, and responds to personal data breaches. Drives compliance improvements and collaborates with regional legal teams.

Provide legal and regulatory advice for CFD trading and stockbroking across ANZ; lead and mentor legal staff; draft and review client disclosure and commercial agreements; support projects and cross-functional teams on Corporations Act, privacy, IP and regulatory reform matters; shape commercial strategy and ensure legal protections for global expansion.

As Legal Counsel, you will provide legal support in contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, and strategic initiatives within a fintech environment, reporting to Senior Legal Counsel.

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 pragmatic commercial and regulatory legal advice across product development, partnerships and transactions. Advise on Australian consumer credit, financial services and privacy law, draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements, and partner with Product, Commercial and Compliance to operationalise compliant solutions. Manage external counsel and contribute to strategic initiatives.

Provide legal advice on content safety, product and privacy for generative AI and digital products. Advise product and engineering teams, develop safety policies and playbooks, handle incidents and regulatory inquiries, support compliance projects and training, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to operationalize scalable legal processes.

Advise product and engineering on privacy, IP, AI, online safety, consumer and platform laws. Develop AI policies, legal playbooks, and scalable review processes. Support incident response, collaborate globally with cross-functional teams, and track global AI/privacy regulations to guide product launches and governance.