This is a fantastic opportunity for a Legal Counsel/ Senior Legal Counsel to embed yourself in a fast-paced business environment where your legal expertise will directly support strategic initiatives, operational excellence and a strong governance culture.

Reporting to the General Counsel, you’ll play a key role in partnering with senior stakeholders and external advisers across a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters.

Key Responsibilities:

- Supporting strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A;), including legal advice and support for M&A; transactions.
- Offering regulatory advice and aiding in the implementation of compliance initiatives.
- Providing company secretarial and corporate governance support.
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a range of commercial contracts that underpin key business operations and partnerships.
- Advising on consumer, privacy, data, employment and general corporate matters with a practical, solutions-focused approach.
- Managing external legal advisers to secure cost-effective, timely support on specialised matters.

About You:

- Admitted as a lawyer in Australia with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience in corporate or commercial law, ideally gained at a top-tier or mid-tier law firm and/or in-house.
- Solid grounding in contract negotiation and managing diverse commercial matters.
- Experience advising on regulatory, compliance and governance issues.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills,



with the ability to build trusted relationships at all levels.
- Organised, resilient and comfortable working in a energetic, evolving environment.

Contact Greenfields Executive Recruitment & Search has been retained on an exclusive basis for this appointment. All applications and enquiries are managed directly by Greenfields. Please send your resume in confidence to Catherine Wolfe-Coote, Managing Director, Greenfields Executive Recruitment & Search. Email [email protected]

About Greenfields Executive Recruitment & Search

Greenfields is one of Sydney's most highly valued, top ranked executive search firms in legal, governance, risk, compliance and company secretarial appointments. We are led by Catherine Wolfe-Coote, Owner, Founder and Managing Director, and are frequently retained by ASX-listed companies, private and family-owned groups, not-for-profits and government to appoint Chief Legal Officers, General Counsel, General Counsel & Company Secretary, Heads of Legal, Heads of Legal, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Head of Governance and Company Secretary, Heads of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), and highly technical senior in-house counsel. We have particular expertise in appointments where legal and governance capability intersects with technology and AI – the emerging profile of the modern in-house legal function.

📌 Senior Legal Counsel | In-house Corporate & Commercial (Sydney)
🏢 Greenfields Executive Recruitment u0026 Search
📍 Sydney