The Opportunity

Join a leading organisation in a role that will strengthen your legal career.

- Duration: 3 months
- Arrangement: 3-5 days (depending on seniority)
- Location: Perth

About You

You are an experienced financial services lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from private practice or in-house roles within large organisations.

Your Experience and Expertise:

- General banking and finance legal experience within a financial services or commercial environment
- Experience reviewing and negotiating confidentiality agreements and NDAs
- Experience reviewing and negotiating reliance letters
- Experience drafting, reviewing and advising on bank guarantees
- Familiarity with bilateral and syndicated loan agreements and associated finance documentation
- Understanding of lending transactions and general banking documentation
- Knowledge of trade finance products and associated legal considerations
- Experience advising on supply chain finance arrangements
- Experience supporting bank guarantee and other trade finance products
- Ability to identify and advise on legal, contractual and commercial risks arising from banking transactions
- Strong commercial contracts experience, including identifying key contractual risks and negotiating appropriate protections
- Ability to provide practical and commercially focused legal advice to product and business teams
- Experience working directly with multiple internal stakeholders across product, operational and functional teams
- Ability to manage a varied workload across banking, finance and general commercial matters
- Previous in-house legal experience within a bank or other financial institution highly regarded
- Experience working with regional or cross-border stakeholders across APAC highly regarded

Attributes:





- Confident and comfortable working directly with senior and diverse stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Commercial and pragmatic approach to legal advice
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify key legal and contractual risks
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Responsive and comfortable operating in a rapid-paced in-house environment
- Culturally aware and effective when engaging with stakeholders across APAC

Requirements:

- Current Australian practising certificate
- Right to live and work in Australia

About Reach

Reach is the flexible legal resourcing platform of Ashurst Perkins Coie, a global law firm with more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices. Sitting within Advance, the firm's NewLaw division, we place lawyers and professionals where they're needed most — whether our clients need to meet a surge in demand, cover leave, bridge a recruitment gap, or bring in specialist expertise.

Why join Reach?

Reach gives you the flexibility to build a career that fits your life — not the other way around. We work with talented consultants across a broad range of specialties, matching the right people with the right opportunities.

Here's what you can expect as a Reach consultant:

- Flexibility and choice — control over how, when, and where you work, on terms that suit your life.
- A genuine partnership — a dedicated Reach team who will get to know you and actively champion your career goals.
- The backing of a global firm — the resources, reputation, and culture of Ashurst Perkins Coie, including access to clients doing market-leading work and a refreshingly open and inclusive community.

Interested?

Ready to find out more? Apply now or get in touch with Adam Saunders, our Talent Solutions Advisor, at [email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.

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📌 Reach Legal Consultant | Financial Services lawyers | Perth
🏢 Ashurst
📍 Perth