Associate/Senior Associate - Banking and Finance - Room for Advancement

The Opportunity:

Our Banking and Finance team is growing. We’re looking for an Associate or Senior Associate (5+ years PQE) to join our Auckland office.

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to work with well-respected partners that lead our Banking and Finance team. We have national and international reach with exposure to a varied range of work and a diversity of clients. 

The role is suitable for an experienced lawyer with a background in general banking and/or restructuring and insolvency gained from another law firm.

The role includes:

• Advising a number of bank and non-bank lenders on corporate and property finance transactions;
• Advising clients on restructuring and insolvency matters;
• Managing end-to-end transactions to effectively and efficiently deliver on client requests; and
• Providing that safe pair of experienced hands that Partners can rely upon to make things happen.

About You:

Ideally, you’ll have 5+ years’ post qualification experience with exposure to corporate law, particularly banking and finance, having built a high level of technical expertise and excellent client service ethos. An interest and experience in the CCCFA would be an advantage. 

Motivated and driven, you’ll thrive on being able to work hard and smart, delivering work effectively – both autonomously and through utilising the team. You’ll apply critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills to review information at hand, think of alternative solutions and evaluate the best approaches to reach a resolution. 

Most importantly you will be eager, innovative, and ready to grow your career with us as we support you to further develop/strengthen the above listed attributes.

What we can offer:

We really care about making Lane Neave a great place to work, so some of what’s on offer at Lane Neave includes;

• Highly competitive salary, benefits and opportunity for additional financial rewards;
• Personal and professional support and career development from a firm invested in your success;
• Collegial team environments and the ability to work cross functionally to provide multi-practice offerings;
• A genuine commitment to our community responsibilities – including environmental, health and economic causes;
• Award-winning work-life balance culture – bespoke flexibility; and
• Impressive office spaces and regular social offerings – if you love food, just know that we always nail the catering!

About Lane Neave:

At Lane Neave we’re proud of our people! We tap into more than 150 years of experience and provide our hugely talented pool of emerging and current legal experts with the opportunity to make the complex simple.

Keeping people at the heart of Lane Neave defines who we are and how we operate.

We’re exceptionally proud of our team and our achievements, winning multiple awards for our technical expertise, workplace and culture including: NZ Employer of Choice, at the NZ Lawyer Law Awards 2023, NZ Firm of the Year AND Work-Life Balance National Firm of the Year, at the 2022 Women in Business Law Awards Asia Pacific!

Apply now, or if you would like to have a confidential chat about the role, please contact Jo Clementson - People and Capability Advisor on 03 371 3750 or [email protected]