Senior Legal Counsel
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Job no: 793474
Business unit: Commercial Services
Primary position location: 395 Bourke St, Melbourne, VIC
Work type: Permanent Full time, Permanent Part time
Region: NSW- Sydney CBD, VIC- Melbourne CBD
- Use your expertise to drive positive outcomes for the NAB Group and our customers
- Outstanding opportunity to build and progress your career
- You’ll be supported to manage your career, work, and life
It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.
You make NAB. You get it done for our customers and our communities. You’re laying the foundations for NAB’s future success. Together we’ll grow, excel for our customers, and make this a workplace to be proud of.
It’s a good time to see what more you can find at NAB as a Senior Legal Counsel within Corporate Advisory Legal Team.
The Role:
This position is with the Corporate Advisory Legal team who provides legal support and advice to the NAB Group on a diverse range of strategic matters including M&A, strategic alliances, joint ventures, equity investments and other advice relating to corporate law issues.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partnering with various internal teams to enable strategies of the NAB Group in relation to M&A, strategic alliances, joint ventures and equity investments
- Advising the NAB Group on a range of corporate law and governance issues, such as listing rule issues, public disclosures, directors’ duties, shareholder issues and equity incentive schemes
- Liaising with external parties, such as lawyers, regulators and counterparties, in relation to legal aspects of these activities
What you will bring:
You are a motivated and experienced corporate/M&A lawyer who has enjoyed transactional work in private practice and now wants to be part of a high quality in-house team.
You have excellent stakeholder management expertise, underpinned by first class communication and influencing skills. A highly motivated individual who strives to consistently provide high quality, commercially relevant legal services, you also have:
- Admission to practice law in Australia, with a minimum of 4+ years PQE
- Good depth of knowledge in M&A, joint ventures, equity investments and general corporate legal advice
- Strong technical skills, quality academic results and a demonstrated track record of managing M&A transactions at a leading law firm
- Ability to balance legal and commercial considerations
- Experience in the financial services sector would be ideal, but not a prerequisite
A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone:
We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of respect – where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their true authentic selves at NAB. With our focus on inclusion and diversity, and in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups, NAB is a place where First Nations colleagues, colleagues of all genders, sexualities and ages, carers and colleagues with disability, and colleagues from all cultures, races and religions have the opportunity to thrive, connect and grow.
More focus on you
We are committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities. To learn more, visit the Benefits of Working at NAB page on our website.
Join NAB
If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.
Unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.
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