Solicitors - Corporate

4 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Bell Gully Full time

Work with industry-leading commercial law experts
- Collaborative team environment
- Flexible work practices, plus a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme

Bell Gully is independently recognised as New Zealand’s leading commercial law firm, opening up a world of career opportunities working with a range of clients including iconic New Zealand brands, innovative start-ups, leading multinationals, global investment banks, financial institutions, iwi and government agencies

Our partners and lawyers advise on a full range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, commercial contracts, joint ventures, capital markets, securities and business reorganisations across a broad range of industries and sectors. The team has worked on many of the market-leading deals that have been undertaken in New Zealand in the last 12-18 months.

We are looking for talented lawyers to join the Wellington team to advise clients on M&A, takeovers and capital markets transactions, across a broad range of industries and sectors. Led by David Coull and Amon Nunns and Angela Harford and Dean Oppenhuis.

We have a friendly and supportive team. Whatever your background may be, we are after team players to join us, who are conscientious, fast learners and keen to be part of our successful and growing Wellington practice. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. This role would be perfect for solicitors with property experience in a large law firm, or smaller or specialised law firms, and could also suit in-house lawyers seeking a return to private practice.
- 3 or more years of relevant post-qualification experience, including private practice or inhouse.
- Large transaction experience - large scale M&A work, takeovers and capital markets.
- Strong technical knowledge and commercial acumen.
- Ability to get on well with others, whether the team, firm, clients or others.
- Right to work in New Zealand (we will consider foreign qualified lawyers), provided they already have their visa.

**Culture and benefits**
In addition to a strong team culture, we offer a range of benefits and initiatives to support our people. These include:

- professional development opportunities;
- community support programmes;
- flexible work practices, plus a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme;
- an annual subsidy for health insurance and a range of wellbeing activities; and
- sports teams, an annual ball, regular team events and department weekends away.
- We continuously work hard to ensure our workplace is inclusive, and trust that different experiences, perspectives, and values work together to achieve a better outcome. As such, this position is open to anyone with the qualifying skill set._


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