Senior Associate - Private Enterprise

About HopgoodGanim Lawyers

HopgoodGanim is a leading independent law firm operating nationally and internationally from our Brisbane and Perth offices. We are seeking an experienced corporate or commercial solicitor with at least 4 - 5 years’ PAE to join our Private Enterprise team.

The Role

Our Private Enterprise team works with entrepreneurs, family businesses and privately-owned businesses of all sizes to help them to protect and enhance their commercial strength.

In this role you will work with the Partners on a broad range of matters, including:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Business sales
• Private capital raising
• Structuring and restructuring
• Commercial agreement drafting and negotiation
• Business succession
• Shareholder’s agreements
• Family-owned business matters, including family business governance, estate planning, succession planning, structuring, intergenerational transfers and family trusts and constitutions.

Additionally, our Private Enterprise team works collaboratively with all practice groups within HopgoodGanim, nationally.

The Successful Candidate

Our team is looking for someone who has a passion and enthusiasm for working within a team, but also autonomously to provide exceptional outcomes for our clients. Candidates with experience in firms specialising in business advisory will be highly regarded.

If you have ability to understand commercial problems and translate them into quality advice for clients, then HopgoodGanim is the firm for you. If you are someone who takes their work seriously but doesn’t take themselves seriously, someone who looks for solutions rather than problems and someone who never says, ‘that’s not part of my job’, then come and work with us. With a unique culture, the firm is recognised as a place where people are supported and love to work.