Senior Associate/ Special Counsel

In Australia, Dentons has offices across Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide. Our expertise, attitude and accessibility attract many of Australasia's most successful and innovative organisations as well as leading multinationals.

Our lawyers are repeatedly recognised as leading legal service providers in Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR 1000 and in the Best Lawyers International: Australia. Dentons has also been recognised on multiple occasions as Lawyers Weekly Diversity Law Firm of the Year and was named Small Employer of the Year, and awarded Gold status at the Australian Workplace Equality Index Awards in 2020.

The opportunity

We have a compelling offering for an experienced Senior Associate to Special Counsel level lawyer to join our dynamic and expanding Banking and Finance Practice to work with leading partners Chris Fanning and Peter Luke in our Sydney office. You will have at least four to eight years PQE gained running front end banking matters, but critically, you will be entrepreneurial, proactive and self-motivated.  You will also:

• be able to run transactions with minimal supervision, be technically proficient in drafting various debt documents and be able to negotiate in a commercial and effective manner;
• possess a strong work ethic and desire to consistently exceed client expectations from a product and service level;
• demonstrate eagerness to be part of a high-performing team with a strong business focus;
• demonstrate a genuine interest to join a close-knit team comprising robust personalities that highly values and embraces collaboration; and
• be able to demonstrate resilience working in a high pressure, demanding environment.

We are predominantly a loan markets practice and advise corporate and institutional lenders and borrowers on various debt arrangements.  Whilst we are ever-increasingly acting for Dentons global clients on cross border matters, we have an unwavering commitment to our Australian clients who include major Australian banks as well a number of private lenders, investment managers and private developers.

Career development is a focus at Dentons and you will have plenty of opportunity, not only to work in our business but also on our business.

Employee Extras

Dentons Australia focuses on the three key areas of talent management: engagement, development, and culture to motivate, develop and deliver excellence for our clients.

We offer competitive market salary packaging, incentive pay and reward, salary sacrifice packaging, additional leave programs (purchased leave, parental leave) and referral bonuses.  We provide a number of generous health and wellbeing programs and promote diversity initiatives across gender, flexibility, culture and LGBTI. At Dentons, we are constantly looking to improve employee's lives in and out of the workplace.

Dentons has an internal Talent Acquisition team that works directly with candidates on all of our career opportunities. Dentons does not accept external agency applications for this role. For a highly confidential conversation please contact Kirstin Usher on 08 9323 0954. Please note that our office is closed from 24 December 2020 to 8 January 2021.