Associate / Senior Associate - Corporate

2 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Bell Gully Full time

**CORPORATE**:

- **AUCKLAND**

20 June 2024
- Work with industry-leading commercial law experts
- Collaborative team environment
- Flexible work practices, plus a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme

**About the role**

Our market-leading Corporate team is looking for experienced lawyers in our Auckland office who have the drive and ambition to get deals done.

As an intermediate or senior lawyer in the team, you will advise on a full range of corporate matters, including on M&A, takeovers and capital markets transactions, across a broad range of industries and sectors and for a diverse group of local and international clients.

**Recent Deals**

The Corporate team has lead the New Zealand market in deal activity in the past 12 months, culminating in winning New Zealand Deal Firm of the Year at the 2021 Australasian Law Awards. Among other matters, the team advised:

- **EQT Infrastructure IV Fund** on its NZ$1.49 billion acquisition of NZX-listed Metlifecare by way of scheme of arrangement;
- **Bentley Systems** on its US$1.05 billion acquisition of Seequent, a global leader in 3D modelling software for geosciences;
- **Lightspeed POS **on the US$350 million acquisition of Vend, a cloud-based retail management software company;
- **Modern Times Group **on its NZ$203 million acquisition of New Zealand-based leading tower defense mobile games developer and publisher Ninja Kiwi;
- **AustralianSuper **on its proposed AU$5.4 billion acquisition of Infratil; and
- **Resolution Life** on the New Zealand aspects of the acquisition of AMP Life for AU$3.0 billion.

**Experience and qualifications**
- 4 to 7 or more years PQE, including private practice and/or in-house.
- Large scale M&A, takeovers and capital markets transactions.
- Strong technical knowledge and commercial acumen.
- Right to work in New Zealand.

**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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