Associate: Major Projects & Infrastructure

The opportunity

Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Project Development Practice in our Melbourne office?

Our Project Development and Finance Practice specialises in advising clients on the legal and financial aspects of large-scale infrastructure and development projects. Our practice provides comprehensive support through all stages of project development, including initial planning, financing, construction and operation.

Our team works with clients across various sectors such as energy, transportation, real estate and public infrastructure, offering expertise in structuring and negotiating project agreements, managing regulatory compliance and mitigating risks. We also assist clients in securing funding through various financial instruments and navigating complex financial transactions. By combining deep industry knowledge with a global perspective, our Project Development and Finance Practice helps clients successfully bring projects to fruition, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.

At White & Case, we'll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our international team from day one. We foster a collegial working environment where partners are friendly and accessible, and colleagues always supportive and open to questions.

Key responsibilities

• Manage a substantial amount of contractual work reviewing ancillary and commercial documents.
• Undertake a range of logistics, communication, and research tasks to drive processes forward.
• Execute multiple work streams and deliver flawless work within short timeframes, using excellent drafting skills and attention to detail.

The skills and attributes we are looking for

• Admission in Australia
• PQE 2-4
• Experience in major projects and infrastructure transactions, particularly in the transport, power, and renewables sector
• Experience advising consortiums, financiers, equity investors and contractors tendering for infrastructure projects.
• Outstanding communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
• Excellent drafting and analytical skills
• Team player and collaborative approach
• Client service focus and commercial awareness

What We Offer

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values-to be pioneering, united and human-and we believe that you'll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

Since our arrival in Australia in 2016, our Australian practice has grown to 37 partners and 95+ lawyers across Sydney and Melbourne. Our teams work with clients in every state of Australia, across the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe on all aspects of transactions.

Projects, disputes and regulatory matters, including cross-border and domestic M&A, project and leveraged finance, project development, financial restructuring and insolvency, antitrust, commercial litigation and international arbitration. Working closely with White & Case teams in key economic hubs across the globe, we serve Australian and international organizations on their most complex transactions and projects.

How to apply

Interested? Please apply by submitting your CV for further consideration.

We are committed to creating a fair workplace and encourage applications from all ages, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, genders, sexual orientations, as well as people who have family or carer responsibilities. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

If you require assistance and/or accommodation to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email the recruiting contact listed. We will be happy to work with you.

For further assistance or queries regarding this opportunity please reach out to Lauren Evans at [email protected]

Note to recruitment agencies: Our internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction.

Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the APAC Recruitment team .

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