Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Sydney

Provide commercially focused legal advice to R&D, IP, Clinical, product, marketing, and commercial stakeholders. Draft, review, and negotiate research, collaboration, intellectual property, services, and technology agreements. Support disputes, litigation, product and marketing initiatives, legal templates, playbooks, process improvements, and AI-enabled legal service delivery in a regulated medical technology environment.

Provides legal advice across contracts, corporate governance, intellectual property, privacy, regulatory compliance, employment, disputes, and M&A. Drafts and negotiates agreements, advises on product and regulatory matters, manages litigation and external counsel, liaises with regulators, develops compliance policies and monitoring frameworks, improves legal processes, and trains employees. The role supports management and business stakeholders within the technology, payments, banking, or fintech sector.

Provides strategic legal advice across corporate, real estate, funds, property management, construction, employment, disputes, privacy, and governance matters. Drafts and negotiates commercial documentation, leads legal workstreams for acquisitions, disposals, and development transactions, manages stakeholder relationships, identifies legal risks, and supports governance policy development.

Provides legal, regulatory, commercial, and risk advice to CMC Markets’ CFD and stockbroking businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Responsibilities include contract negotiation, financial product disclosures, regulatory compliance, disputes, privacy, M&A, governance, external counsel management, stakeholder support, legal training, and mentoring legal team members.

Provides commercially focused legal advice across mortgage broking, lending, franchising, technology, data, AI initiatives, privacy, regulatory matters, and corporate activities. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements, advises senior stakeholders, supports strategic projects and customer matters, manages legal and regulatory risk, oversees external counsel, and improves legal processes and tools.

Provide practical commercial legal advice to Buildings and Transportation businesses. Draft, review, and negotiate consultancy, framework, subcontract, joint venture, confidentiality, and project agreements. Advise on tenders, procurement, risk allocation, disputes, claims, governance, compliance, intellectual property, insurance, and corporate matters. Collaborate with project teams, business leaders, and legal professionals throughout infrastructure, buildings, transport, and professional services projects.

Manages commercial litigation and disputes for CFD and stockbroking businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Advises on regulatory matters, ASIC and financial services issues, regulatory reform, marketing materials, contracts, and strategic legal projects. Works with external counsel, manages legal spend, provides practical guidance to stakeholders, and escalates key risks. Supervises and mentors junior lawyers while supporting the broader legal team.

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 strategic legal advice across Australian financial services regulation, corporate and commercial matters. Advises on AFSL obligations, ASIC, AUSTRAC, AML/CTF, product development, regulatory risks, governance, and complex commercial agreements. Partners with Risk, Compliance, Product, Operations, Marketing, and senior stakeholders; manages external counsel and independently leads legal matters. Requires 9+ years post-admission experience, financial services expertise, and a current NSW practising certificate.

Provides commercially focused legal advice on complex and significant matters, manages legal risks, leads negotiations and cross-functional legal work, advises senior stakeholders, and coordinates external counsel. The role independently owns matters through resolution, supports strategic business decisions, coaches less experienced lawyers, and improves Legal team processes through playbooks, precedents, tools, and data-informed practices.

Counsel International will provide commercial and corporate legal advice to APAC teams, draft and negotiate contracts, support patient operations, manage transaction obligations and corporate governance, maintain legal guidance, and advise business stakeholders across healthcare, technology, and e-commerce. The role requires an Australian-qualified lawyer with 3–5 years of post-qualification experience, strong communication skills, sound commercial judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities.

Provides legal counsel to product and engineering teams on privacy, data protection, intellectual property, AI, online safety, marketing, platform, competition, and consumer laws. Advises on AI products, product launches, partnerships, consumer terms, and risk mitigation; develops AI policies, legal playbooks, and scalable review processes; supports privacy and data security incident response; and monitors global regulatory developments.

Provides commercially focused legal advice across contract drafting and negotiation, corporate governance, compliance, dispute resolution, privacy, data protection, technology procurement, and legal operations. Partners with Sales, Procurement, Delivery, Operations, and senior leadership while supporting legal risk management, maintaining templates and playbooks, and advising on strategic initiatives in a technology and cybersecurity business.

Provide corporate, commercial, compliance, litigation, and dispute-related legal support for Fever’s APAC and common-law operations. Draft and negotiate commercial contracts across jurisdictions, adapt legal strategy to regional needs, monitor legislative developments, coordinate internal stakeholders and external counsel, maintain legal templates and guides, and support the growth and development of team members.

Serve as in-house commercial legal counsel on a 14-month fixed-term contract. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating commercial contracts; advising on M&A, property, litigation, employment, and regulatory matters; managing legal and industry risks; improving legal processes; collaborating with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Independence teams; and training colleagues on legal and commercial risk.

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 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.

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%).