Jobs at Gilbert + Tobin

Early-career admitted lawyer joining a Melbourne disputes and investigations team. The role involves supporting significant commercial disputes, class actions, regulatory matters, and a Royal Commission. Responsibilities include legal research, analysis, case strategy, client and counsel collaboration, and preparation for court proceedings. Candidates should demonstrate strong analytical, written communication, attention-to-detail, initiative, resilience, and a genuine interest in developing a commercial litigation career.

Handle complex commercial litigation, class actions, regulatory disputes, and investigations. Responsibilities include developing case strategy, preparing pleadings, evidence, and submissions, briefing counsel, managing workstreams, working with clients and partners, and supporting hearings and trials. The role offers increasing ownership of significant matters and opportunities to develop legal, strategic, commercial, and client advisory skills.

Manage large-scale eDiscovery and document review matters using Relativity, including data imports, processing, analytics, quality control, auditing, and exports. Support legal teams with Harvey vaults, virtual data rooms, deal rooms, and technology-enabled workflows. Develop and improve legal informatics processes, validate AI-assisted reviews, manage large datasets, and provide technical support during court proceedings and inquiries.

Advise sponsors, borrowers, and lenders on complex infrastructure and project finance transactions across digital infrastructure, social infrastructure, energy, and resources. Responsibilities include analyzing financing structures, negotiating transaction terms, drafting legal documents, advising clients, and working independently and collaboratively on high-profile deals. Candidates with three to five years of post-qualification experience and finance, project finance, property finance, or banking backgrounds are sought.

Advises clients on competition, consumer, and market regulation matters, including mergers, ACCC clearances, investigations, litigation, cartel issues, economic regulation, regulatory design, legislative reform, and consumer protection. Requires strong legal drafting, technical knowledge, client service, and collaboration skills, with at least three years of relevant experience.

Advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, due diligence, IPOs, placements, rights issues, corporate governance, continuous disclosure, Corporations Act matters, and ASX Listing Rule compliance. The role also involves legal drafting, transaction analysis, mentoring, and matter management within a high-performing corporate advisory team.

This general referral posting allows Gilbert + Tobin employees to recommend candidates for future opportunities in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. Applicants are added to the firm’s Talent Community and contacted when a suitable open role becomes available.

Leads end-user computing, enterprise applications support, and document automation teams. Oversees digital workplace performance, incident and change management, endpoint lifecycle, application upgrades, integrations, releases, vendor performance, licensing, and operational readiness. Drives cloud transition, standardization, automation, security controls, and service improvements using operational data. Acts as the senior escalation point and advises stakeholders on service performance, risks, priorities, and remediation.

Corporate lawyer role focused on equity capital markets and public and private M&A transactions. Responsibilities include advising listed companies on IPOs, equity raisings, acquisitions, disclosure obligations, ASX Listing Rules, and corporate governance. The role offers exposure to major transactions, hands-on partner mentorship, and opportunities to develop commercially astute legal judgment across ECM and M&A matters.

Advise Australian and multinational clients on employment law matters, including litigation, workplace investigations, whistleblower issues, M&A employment aspects, contracts, industrial relations, workplace change, terminations, and health and safety investigations. The role requires managing both advisory and litigation work, preparing clear legal advice, solving complex problems, building client relationships, and collaborating effectively.

Advises sponsors, borrowers, and lenders on project finance transactions across infrastructure, energy, resources, PPPs, and social housing. Responsibilities include analyzing, negotiating, and drafting financing documents, working with clients, supporting complex transactions, and collaborating with senior lawyers. The role suits lawyers with at least three years of post-qualification experience and finance exposure, particularly project finance, property finance, or general banking experience.

First Nations Legal Cadets gain practical legal experience while completing an LLB or JD. Working one to two days per week during semester, cadets rotate across legal practice areas, collaborate with specialist lawyers, and receive mentoring and structured support. Applicants must identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, be enrolled in law studies, and attend a Sydney, Melbourne, or Perth office. Applications require a cover letter, CV, and academic transcripts.

Provides high-level administrative support to a partner and lawyers in a disputes and investigations team. Responsibilities include managing legal documents and files, preparing court documents, compiling counsel briefs, coordinating communications, managing court e-filing, overseeing diaries and email, assisting with billing and reconciliation, handling limited digital dictation, and arranging travel. The role requires executive or personal assistant experience, ideally in a law firm, strong organization, attention to detail, communication skills, sound judgment, and intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office proficiency.

Advise banks, insurers, fintechs, funds and other financial services clients on regulatory compliance, licensing, governance, accountability, investigations, enforcement, remediation, transactions and regulatory reform. Work includes AFSL and ACL obligations, FAR and BEAR frameworks, ASIC and APRA engagement, AML/CTF, privacy, payments, digital regulation and fintech matters. The role requires strong drafting, analytical, proactive and commercially minded skills, with direct client and regulator exposure.

Work with leading M&A partners on complex private and public transactions. Responsibilities include advising clients, drafting legal documents, providing practical and commercially minded advice, managing transaction matters, developing client relationships, and contributing to a high-performing corporate advisory team.

Advise clients on complex public and private M&A, equity capital markets, joint ventures, and corporate governance matters. Draft and analyze legal documents, provide strategic and commercial advice, and support landmark transactions alongside leading corporate partners. The role requires strong technical, analytical, drafting, and client advisory skills, plus a collaborative, outcome-focused approach.

Advises on high-profile private and public mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions. The role involves working with leading M&A partners, drafting legal documents and advice, analyzing complex matters, managing transaction-related projects, developing client relationships, and delivering practical, commercial solutions in a fast-paced legal environment.

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.

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.

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.