Senior Commercial Lawyer (Bunbury)

Owing to the Balfour Meagher's continued growth and reputation, we’re seeking another excellent Senior Commercial and Corporate Lawyer to join our already amazing team of experienced lawyers. Whether you are:
- a front-facing lawyer who enjoys engaging directly with clients, referrers and business partners; and/or support lawyer who more prefers to work in the background, assisting team lawyers and clients, reviewing & drafting documents, providing advice & the like, we have the role for you! You will have demonstrated experience in advising, reviewing, drafting and transacting/conveying on various matters across property and/or estate areas (Balfour Meagher is a full-service, contemporary commercial & corporate law firm). About you:
- You seek a modern workplace which puts courtesy, manners & respect foremost for yourself, your colleagues, clients and our business partners.
- Minimum 5 years+ post-admission’s experience in either, property, estate planning or commercial several of those areas.
- Practising and located in WA.
- Self-sufficient and autonomous (e.g. at least computer literate with Microsoft Office365 and modern electronic legal practice management systems).
- You strive for excellence in client service; including in any face-to-face meetings, online, telephone as well as contemporary, written communication skills.
- Relishes regular collegiate conferrals & mentoring as well as practical legal/contemporary business skills’ development
- working with only experienced, senior lawyers and directors.
- Perhaps looking for a different yet more fulfilling professional pace; including a much better & more flexible approach than larger and older-style firms allow (require…) About the position You will be working on and regularly exposed to a large range of various, interesting and often complex/challenging:
- Corporate (advisory & due diligence, substantial business and asset sales/purchases, large scale M&As; (company & equity) transactions, business/asset/entity structuring and ownership, business succession e.g. shareholder, partnership and unitholder agreements, insurance-funded buy/sell option agreements etc);
- Commercial matters (contract reviews, bespoke drafting of contracts, agreements & deeds, hire arrangements, loans and securitisation/PPSR/mortgages);
- Property & Leasing
- reviews & bespoke drafting, all types of conveyancing & settlements, securitisation, property development; acting property sales agencies; complex business real property-into-SMSF transactions,
- Estate planning (including estate planning complex Wills including testamentary trusts), dealing high net-wealth family groups; international assets matters , Family/Discretionary Trust & Company-succession arrangements, SMSFs & BDBNs, Enduring Powers of Attorney and Guardianship etc).
- Niche advice on IP Commercialisation, Software & Technology Law; and About us and your role in our team:
- Commitment to excellence in service, documentation and advice.
- State-of-the-art computers, technologies, documentation as well as phenomenal office administration support.
- Regular and wide-ranging in-house, as well as external, CPD training (+ additional, elective CPDs and other well exceeding the career development training minimum LPBWA requirements).
- Hybrid workplace
- with WFH by default (with full home-office set-up; including laptop and home printer/scanner etc) yet also with daily contact and regular in-person, individual as well as team catch-ups, plus off-site client and referral partner meetings; includes also paid-for office parking.
- Collaborative and collegiate workplace, where true work/life balance
- manners, courtesy and mutual respect are all paramount
- Excellent, continuous range of interesting new and regular clients as well as a massive, longstanding referral network.
- Direct, client-facing work with autonomy, while being fully supported by the directors and colleagues. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3q43eg