Job Description

Elevate is recruiting a Specialist - M&A to assist and support the senior members of the team to manage a Transactions Centre of Excellence. The Transactions Centre of Excellence is being established as a Service Centre for a large Australian Law Firm. As an associate, on a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for due diligence and understand all of a company's obligations.

Specifically, you will :

- Be M&A / Diligence expertise.

- Identify and mitigate risks and ensure quality product.

- Find potential problems that could delay closing the deal.

- Able to resolve escalations initiated by clients with limited assistance from Seniors.

- Deliver high quality outputs and actively seek to improve operational efficiency on projects.

- Drafting due diligence reports.

- Reviewing existing legal and business contracts of a business (including corporate documents, agreements and financial statements) for potential problems and issues prior to a proposed transaction, such as a merger or acquisition.

- Develop close working relationship with client/lawyers of the law firm.

- Work on tight deadlines.

Experience:

- 3+ years of total work experience, with a corporate background.

- 2+ years of relevant law firm experience, specifically in diligence, ideally cross border.

- Ideally, significant experience with large legal matters like M&A and other Due Diligence; post-M&A integration, large remediation programmers.

- Running multi-jurisdictional Diligence at scale.

- Drafting and reviewing Diligence reports, etc. and other transactional documents.

- Ideally familiarity with tech such as deal rooms and relevant AI products, e.g., HighQ, Wizdocs, Kira, Legatics will be added advantage.

- Able to work in tight deadlines.

Skills for Success:

- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

- Impeccable attention to detail.

- Self-starter; proactive with strong follow-up skills.

- Excellent platform skills.

- Superior written and oral communication skills.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree required in LLB or equivalent required.