Jobs at Gilbert + Tobin

Advises clients on competition, consumer, and market regulation matters, including mergers and acquisitions, ACCC clearances, investigations, litigation, cartel conduct, economic regulation, regulatory design, legislative reform, and consumer protection. The role requires strong legal drafting and advice-writing skills, technical knowledge, client management ability, and capacity to work autonomously and collaboratively.

Experienced mergers and acquisitions lawyer joining the Melbourne Corporate Advisory team. Responsibilities include advising on complex public and private M&A, private credit transactions, and equity capital markets matters; drafting and analyzing legal documents; providing commercially practical client advice; collaborating with partners and colleagues; and mentoring junior team members.

Advise clients on complex public and private M&A, equity capital markets, joint ventures, and corporate governance matters. The role involves working on landmark transactions with leading partners, applying strong legal drafting, analytical, technical, and client advisory skills, while maintaining a practical, commercial, and team-oriented approach.

Provides executive and legal administrative support to two partners and a disputes and investigations team. Responsibilities include diary and email management, billing and accounts reporting, document and file management, client liaison, e-filing, travel coordination, and ad hoc administration. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, communication skills, initiative, and at least three years of executive assistant or legal secretary experience in a law firm.

Lead business development strategy for the Corporate Advisory practice, partnering with lawyers and senior stakeholders to drive growth, client engagement, and market positioning. Manage tenders, proposals, client presentations, campaigns, events, thought leadership, rankings, sponsorships, market intelligence, and business development infrastructure. Support client relationship development, cross-practice collaboration, workflow management, and mentoring of junior team members.

Conduct high-quality legal document reviews and related tasks, including chronologies, statements, and submissions. Support document review management by answering queries, monitoring progress, ensuring processes are followed, escalating issues, and implementing solutions. Participate in debriefings, quality assurance activities, and review meetings while helping improve future matters. Use platforms such as Relativity or NUIX in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment.

Provides executive assistant, administrative, customer service, and office operations support within a legal firm’s Services team. Responsibilities include diary and correspondence management, facilities and mailroom support, meeting room and event coordination, front-of-house service, workplace health and safety assistance, service request handling, process improvements, and support for the Services Manager and practice groups in Melbourne.

Provides employment law advice and litigation support to Australian and multinational companies, government bodies, and senior executives. Handles Fair Work Commission and court matters, workplace investigations, whistleblower issues, M&A employment matters, contracts, industrial relations, workplace change, terminations, and health and safety investigations. Builds client relationships, writes clear legal advice, solves complex problems, and works independently and collaboratively.

Advise banks, insurers, funds, fintechs, and payment providers on financial services regulation, including licensing, conduct obligations, FAR/BEAR, governance, investigations, enforcement, remediation, regulatory reform, and transactional matters. Lead complex workstreams, manage client relationships, engage with ASIC and APRA, advise on compliance transformation, and mentor junior lawyers.

Handle complex commercial litigation, regulatory disputes, investigations, inquiries, and related advisory matters. Work with mining, energy, and infrastructure clients on issues including native title, land access, environmental and administrative law, restructuring, trusts, and regulatory investigations. Responsibilities include legal analysis, drafting, independent matter management, collaboration with partners and colleagues, and building trusted client relationships.

Advises clients on complex energy, resources, and infrastructure transactions across project development, acquisitions, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. Manages workstreams, assesses transaction structures and risk allocation, engages with clients and stakeholders, and contributes to high-value matters while developing sector expertise.

Manage billing and invoicing, including account preparation, amendments, and finalization. Handle debtor management, invoice queries, client disbursement payments, trust account records, reconciliations, fund allocations, and financial reporting. Provide billing and trust-related client communication while supporting lawyers and the Intellectual Property team with file management, general administration, and project work.

Advise on high-profile private and public M&A transactions alongside leading corporate partners. The role involves drafting and providing legal advice, applying strong technical and analytical skills, managing transaction matters, developing client relationships, and delivering practical, commercially focused solutions. Lawyers will work in a fast-paced, supportive team while developing legal and non-legal skills and contributing to market-leading corporate transactions.

Represent clients in complex, high-stakes commercial disputes and investigations. Responsibilities include appearing in court, managing litigation matters, drafting pleadings, preparing evidence, briefing counsel, overseeing hearings, analyzing complex legal and commercial issues, and communicating with clients and stakeholders. The role requires collaboration, independence, strong performance under pressure, and delivery of high-quality legal outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Advise clients on competition, consumer, and market regulation matters, including mergers and acquisitions, ACCC clearances, joint ventures, investigations, enforcement proceedings, cartel matters, litigation, economic regulation, regulatory design, legislative reform, and consumer protection. The role requires drafting advice, applying technical competition-law knowledge, working with clients, and contributing autonomously within a high-performing legal team.

Advises on complex, high-value energy, resources, and infrastructure transactions and projects across their lifecycle. Responsibilities include supporting mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy matters; applying Australian regulatory frameworks; drafting legal documents; conducting analysis; communicating with clients; and collaborating with partners and colleagues on technically challenging work.

Advise investment funds and fund managers on fund establishment, regulatory matters, FIRB, fund manager M&A, fund launches, and financial services regulation. Draft fund documents including scheme constitutions, limited partnership agreements, trust deeds, management agreements, custodian agreements, and co-investment agreements. Build client relationships and deliver complex, high-profile transactions collaboratively.

A talent community referral opportunity for Gilbert + Tobin employees to recommend candidates when no suitable open role is currently available. Referred candidates may be contacted when an appropriate position arises.

Advise funds, banks, borrowers, investors, directors, and insolvency practitioners on distressed transactions, restructuring, insolvency, workouts, administrations, liquidations, receiverships, and related disputes. Responsibilities include drafting legal documents, preparing written advice, working directly with clients, handling technically challenging matters, and contributing independently within a high-performing team.

Advise Australian and multinational clients on employment litigation, workplace investigations, whistleblower matters, M&A employment issues, contracts, industrial relations, workplace changes, terminations, and health and safety prosecutions. The role requires managing both advisory and litigation matters, drafting clear legal advice, solving complex problems, making sound decisions, and building effective client relationships independently and collaboratively.