Jobs at Russell McVeagh

Provide corporate and commercial legal advice across complex transactions, business-critical projects, governance, regulatory matters, and general advisory work. The role involves working with multiple partners and major corporate, government, and infrastructure clients while contributing to a high-performing team and developing client-focused legal solutions.

Provides generalist People & Culture business partnering to legal and business services teams. Coaches managers, advises employees on policies and employment matters, manages diversity and inclusion initiatives, oversees engagement surveys, and produces P&C reporting. The role requires ownership of projects, strong relationship-building and influencing skills, and at least five years of generalist P&C experience. This is a 12-month fixed-term parental leave cover based in Auckland.

Provide project and banking finance legal advice on large-scale infrastructure, renewable energy, construction, property finance and corporate finance transactions. Work within the Banking & Finance team on complex, cross-border matters, supporting project financing, securitisations and sustainability-linked financings while developing expertise under senior partners.

Provide technology and digital legal advice on procurement, outsourcing, IP, privacy/data protection, cybersecurity incident response, AI/biometric/blockchain projects, commercial negotiations, M&A of tech assets, and IT disputes for complex, cross-border transactions.

Join the Corporate Advisory team to advise on complex corporate and commercial transactions, often with cross-border and government or infrastructure elements. Work with senior partners on high-profile matters, manage transaction workflow, prepare documentation, and liaise with clients. The role emphasizes career development within a high-performing, supportive team.

Join a tier‑1 Auckland litigation team handling complex domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, including workouts, formal insolvencies, distressed financings, enforcement, and claims against directors and auditors. You will work with banks, insolvency practitioners, corporate borrowers and international firms, engage with courts, collaborate across practice groups, and develop under senior lawyers in a supportive high‑performing environment.

Mid-senior corporate lawyer to support partners on corporate advisory, commercial and large-scale renewable energy and infrastructure matters. Work includes joint ventures, public and private M&A, capital raisings, shareholder arrangements and project contracts, providing independent legal advice and collaborating across teams to deliver client-focused solutions.

Partner with lawyers and technology teams to design, implement and optimise AI-enabled legal solutions (prompt libraries, document automation, knowledge tools). Identify efficiency opportunities, support responsible AI adoption, deliver training and guidance, and monitor emerging legal technology to drive firm-wide transformation.