Baker McKenzie

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Join Baker McKenzie’s leading Commercial Real Estate team as a Conveyancing Paralegal.  Play a meaningful role contributing to high end transactional work for Australia-wide developments, transactional work and more. 

Our practice

Our Commercial Real Estate team partners with major developers, fund managers, luxury brands and institutional investors to deliver seamless conveyancing solutions for landmark transactions across Sydney and beyond.

Our team’s expertise spans a diverse range of property sectors, including luxury retail, renewables, hotels and commercial developments. We’re known for our hands-on and highly commercial approach to transactional work and efficiencies achieved through project management, electronic conveyancing and streamlined due diligence processes.

Working closely with colleagues across our global network and related practice groups in our Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane offices, we provide comprehensive, integrated legal services that support our clients’ ambitions and set new standards in the industry.

About you 

You will manage the conveyancing aspects of files from due diligence to contract and settlement, with a focus on significant transactional work, including complex settlement arrangements and supervision of a range of completion mechanics. You will also manage electronic settlements using PEXA and integrated platforms, register dealings with the titles office, and provide ancillary support to the banking and finance team with mortgage dealings, as well as ideally being able to support the tax team with stamp duty lodgements and e-duties requirements. 

With our culture of mentoring, you can expect to receive active coaching from experienced and leading managers, who will guide and develop you in all aspects of the role.

You will have at least five years' experience in high end commercial conveyancing practices and transactional work, including undertaking title due diligence, review and reporting on statutory searches relevant to properties and be ready to take the next step in your career.  Ideally you will also have experience in preparing draft leases (both commercial and retail) and contracts of sale, using template documents and heads of agreement.

You will also have: 

At Baker McKenzie, we are different in the way we think, work and behave. The first local, truly global law firm in Australia, we commenced operations in Sydney in 1964, in Melbourne in 1982 and in Brisbane in 2014. With our breadth of experience in the local market and global connectivity, we are the law firm of choice for Australian and multinational companies. We have 6,500 lawyers globally who work seamlessly together – across practice groups, sectors and markets – to provide our clients with the connected perspectives, integrated solutions and seamless guidance they need to succeed in an increasingly interconnected global market.

Baker McKenzie Australia can offer you access to complex, market-leading matters working with some of the world's best legal minds – people who know the law and who understand business. We have an inclusive culture of learning, coaching and opportunity where you will work as part of teams on matters that often cross borders. We value people who think ahead and get noticed.

At Baker McKenzie, our flat structure means you will have direct exposure to our clients and responsibility for meaningful involvement across a broad range of matters. You will also regularly work with our extensive network of global colleagues and clients. 

Our benefits

• Financial: competitive remuneration package, salary continuance insurance, salary sacrifice options, employee discounts, referral rewards, and travel insurance for you and your immediate family.
• Learning & development opportunities: regional and global development programs.
• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to balance your work and lifestyle.
• Leave: 26 weeks' paid parental leave for parents/carers (with no minimum service) with access to an external coaching service, ability to purchase additional annual leave, flexible public holidays and volunteer leave.
• Health & wellbeing programs: Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling including wellbeing and financial coaching for you and your immediate family, flu vaccinations and discounted health insurance.

Inclusion, Diversity & Equity

Baker McKenzie is committed to providing a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for all its employees, with equal opportunity for all to progress and have a meaningful career with our Firm. As part of our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from people of all genders (including if you identify as transgender or gender diverse), sexual orientations, abilities, cultural backgrounds, as well as First Nations peoples and people with caring responsibilities, neurodivergent lived experiences and disabilities. We want all applicants to be given the best possible opportunity to succeed in our recruitment processes, so invite you to let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to equitably participate in our recruitment processes or in performing the requirements of a role at Baker McKenzie.

We appreciate that everyone's needs are different. Please contact us so that we can work with you to best support you in our recruitment processes. We are happy to share accommodations we've made in the past and are keen to work with you personally, to set you up for success.

Apply today!
 

If you are interested in the above role, we would love to hear from you! Please click "Apply". 

If you would like to find out more or have a confidential chat, please contact me by email on holly.mcknight@bakermckenzie.com or by phone on +61 401 150 928.