Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Sydney

Provide legal and regulatory advice for Remitly’s Australia, New Zealand, and broader APAC operations. Responsibilities include financial services regulation, AML/CTF, payments, consumer protection, privacy, product launches, partner agreements, licensing, regulator engagement, and management of external counsel. The role also supports compliance, government relations, and practical legal tools using AI.

Senior Legal Counsel reporting to the General Counsel, responsible for global SaaS and commercial contracts, employment, data and technology matters, corporate governance, tenders, and potential M&A. The role provides pragmatic legal advice, negotiates agreements, manages external counsel, supports governance activities, and develops legal processes for a rapidly growing AI healthcare company.

Provides autonomous, commercially focused legal advice across Australia and New Zealand. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating customer, supplier, technology, and content licensing agreements; advising on commercial risk; supporting technology, AI, and product initiatives; developing legal templates and guidance; delivering training; managing disputes and external counsel; and using generative AI and legal technology to improve legal service delivery.

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.

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.

Legal Counsel will provide commercial and project-focused legal advice across consultancy, professional services, construction, infrastructure, and engineering matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, supporting tenders and project delivery, advising on variations, claims, disputes, procurement, privacy, employment, intellectual property, governance, and compliance. The role also contributes to legal templates, training, process automation, and AI-supported legal tools while working closely with project and business leaders.

Leads the Legal, Advocacy and Governance function across Australia and New Zealand, advising executive leadership on strategy, growth, transformation, risk, compliance, governance, litigation, regulatory matters, commercial agreements, and cross-border issues. The role manages external counsel, budgets, investigations, and legal resources while supporting sales, marketing, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, technology, and organizational change initiatives.

Provides commercially focused legal advice across commercial agreements, privacy, consumer law, intellectual property, governance, regulatory compliance, litigation, digital initiatives, and technology matters. Drafts and negotiates agreements, manages legal risk, advises stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand, oversees external counsel, monitors legal developments, and improves legal service delivery through innovation and process improvement.

Provide commercially oriented legal advice and support to Perpetual Wealth business units, including trustee, Native Title, fiduciary, and outsourced litigation matters. Responsibilities include managing external legal advisers, resolving legal queries, negotiating with internal stakeholders, and monitoring relevant legal developments. This is a 12-month parental leave contract requiring Australian legal admission and 2–3 years of post-qualification experience, ideally involving wills and estates, with litigation experience advantageous.

Provides practical legal, regulatory, and commercial support by reviewing, drafting, advising on, and negotiating customer, supplier, and operational contracts. The role manages legal matters, identifies and escalates risks, partners with cross-functional teams, and develops guidance for recurring legal issues. Candidates must be qualified lawyers with 2–5 years of post-qualification experience and strong drafting, negotiation, communication, commercial judgment, and matter-management skills.

Provides legal counsel to Honeywell’s Building Automation business, focusing on reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and settling construction, services, technology, and commercial contracts. Advises project delivery, sales, commercial, and operations teams on risk, compliance, contract management, tenders, disputes, and business practices while protecting Honeywell’s commercial interests.

Legal Counsel supporting Honeywell’s ANZ Building Automation business through contract review, drafting, negotiation, settlement, and dispute resolution. The role advises sales, operations, and project delivery teams on construction, services, technology, tender, and procurement agreements; manages contractual risk; ensures compliance with company policies and code of conduct; and aligns legal obligations with commercial objectives.

Provides legal advice across contracts, corporate governance, intellectual property, privacy, regulatory compliance, employment, disputes, and mergers and acquisitions. The role drafts and negotiates agreements, manages regulatory relationships and litigation, develops compliance policies and monitoring frameworks, advises on product requirements, improves legal operations, and trains employees. It requires an Australian law license and substantial legal experience in technology, payments, banking, or fintech.

Provide strategic, solution-focused legal advice across corporate, commercial, real estate, funds, development, construction, employment, privacy, governance, and dispute matters. Draft and negotiate contracts, lead legal workstreams for acquisitions, disposals, and development transactions, manage external stakeholders, identify legal risks, and contribute to governance policies and procedures.

Supports international legal operations across LATAM, including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, legal and regulatory research, litigation support, corporate housekeeping, compliance projects, certification processes, and regulator communications. Maintains contract repositories and legal libraries, tracks deadlines and certifications, coordinates with external counsel, testing laboratories, vendors, and regulators, and prepares reports for leadership. Requires a law degree, active bar membership, fluent English and Spanish, strong organization, and attention to detail.

Provides commercial legal counsel across the APAC region, advising on corporate, commercial, employment, regulatory, privacy, disputes, compliance, and construction matters. Supports mergers and acquisitions, drafts and negotiates agreements, monitors legal developments, delivers compliance training, and partners with HR, Finance, Operations, and senior leaders. The role requires Australian legal admission, 3–5 years of post-qualification experience, strong cross-jurisdictional capability, and full working rights in Australia.

Senior Legal Counsel advising Cochlear’s Global Strategic Marketing function on advertising, competition and consumer law, commercial contracts, intellectual property, marketing disputes, regulatory risks and product claims. The role independently leads complex matters, negotiates agreements, manages external advisers, improves legal processes and technology-enabled service delivery, and coaches junior colleagues. Australian legal qualification and approximately 8–12 years of relevant experience are required.

Provides commercially focused legal advice to Sydney Airport on contracts, strategic transactions, privacy, IP, technology, marketing, consumer law, property, regulatory matters, and commercial initiatives. Responsibilities include negotiating with third parties, identifying legal risks, preparing submissions, advising stakeholders, reviewing board materials, updating policies and precedents, training staff, and managing external legal counsel and costs.

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, 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.

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 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.

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.

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.