2022 Law Graduate null

WE ARE HIRING LAW GRADUATES

Cleveland & Co External In-House Counsel is a specialist outsourced legal team providing legal advisory services in the investment management industry. Our success is built on our ability to think differently, pioneering a better way to serve our clients in an ever-changing world while fostering a culture of success. Our single global team of pace-setting professionals is the key to supporting our global client base and their continued success. We pride ourselves on being flexible, effective, and efficient in determining our client's objectives and are driven by their success. Our ambitions and successes are reflected through the diverse team we’ve built and the 200+ international clients we’ve won, who represent a combined AUM of over £9 trillion.

We have offices in London and Sydney and will be setting up a North American office in the near future.

This excellent opportunity provides a varied role that will offer a broad range of experience with firms across the financial services industry. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience in a professional office environment or at least 1 year of experience at a law firm or in-house, although we are flexible for the right candidate. The ideal candidate will have experience in or knowledge of two or more of the following areas:

• Investment management (retail and/or institutional);
• Regulated and unregulated funds (including working with responsible entities or trustees);
• Transactional documentation;
• Shareholder agreements and arrangements;
• General services agreements;
• Distribution of funds or other financial products;
• General services agreements;
• General IP and trademark work;
• Lending;
• Fund establishment;
• Hedge funds;
• Private equity;
• Real estate;
• Trading and derivatives;
• Custody and administration services;
• Corporate transactional documentation; and
• Commercial contracts.

Must-have criteria for this role:

• Graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce & Laws or equivalent;
• Have the ability to work full-time;
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office;
• English language proficiency;
• Independent, resourceful, and confident with great problem-solving skills;
• Ability to work effectively with a range of personality types and seniority levels;
• Highly motivated self-starter with a history of pushing for deadline-driven results;
• Ability to jump in and support the team when/where needed;
• Ability to work in an environment requiring attention to detail and high levels of accuracy;
• Ability to work autonomously where required, meet deadlines and handle queries from inside and outside the company;
• Ability to commute to Sydney office as this is an in-office role but we have a flexible work policy; and
• A mac laptop as we operate a BYOA(pple) policy to allow for maximum agility.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will work within the team to engage in a variety of client work, including without limitation:

• financial services regulation;
• funds (mutual, private equity, real estate, hedge and listed);
• distribution and placement;
• investment advice, execution, transition management, overlay;
• custody and administration;
• broker-dealer arrangements;
• trading documentation;
• entity establishment;
• transactional documentation (LPAs, Asset and Share Sale Agreements, term sheets, DD etc);
• corporate lending;
• commercial contracts;
• legal research; and
• writing legal articles.

BENEFITS

• 4 weeks’ holiday;
• Competitive salary;
• Flexible working pattern;
• Practical Legal Training opportunity;
• Scope for fast career progression and skills development;
• Secondment opportunities;
• Opportunity to immediately impact growing a successful firm with industry recognition;
• Statutory superannuation;
• A culture of success focused on our values and results;
• Exciting and varied work gaining experience from multiple investment firms;
• Casual dress; and
• Annual Company events & regular social hours.