Total 325 legal intern job vacancies in Sydney, New South Wales

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

Please note this role is a 6 month FTC covering parental leave.

Working with the Group Legal Counsel, the role is responsible for managing legal matters relating to Rest including providing legal advice to Rest Business units, Management, Board and Directors to ensure appropriate management of Rest’s legal rights and duties and legal compliance and managing Legal Counsel direct reports.

• Provide advice on regulatory legal matters and guidance to the business in relation to legislative, regulatory and licensing obligations
• Participate in the due diligence process as a legal stakeholder to provide review and legal advice on required documents and processes 
• Advise management on regulatory matters that affect business decisions and the execution of Rest’s strategic objectives, 
• Maintain a good working knowledge of regulatory matters and regulatory change relating to the Trustee and Fund.  
• Advise on proposed and actual regulatory changes to stakeholders to manage legal risks.  
• Advise on Rest’s governance framework including licences and the activities of representatives of the Trustee to properly discharge licence responsibilities. 
• Advise on Rest’s regulatory reporting frameworks 
• Manage legal aspects of regulatory investigations. 
• Assist with liaison with regulators including ASIC and APRA for all communications including meetings and correspondence, preparation of reports, schedules and presentations for APRA prudential reviews, where required. Participate in industry forums and groups to provide input and discussions on regulatory changes and communicate outcomes to relevant internal stakeholders as required. 
•  Support and advise management on regulatory matters that affect business decisions and the execution of Rest’s objectives
• Assist as required in the delivery of legal training to Rest Business Units. 
• Manage litigated matters and disputes where required, including liaison with Rest’s external legal panel and Senior Counsel in relation to litigated matters 
• Liaising with external legal providers, auditors, fund administration and regulators when required 
• Preparation and review of relevant Fund policies as required 

What you’ll be doing

• Drafting and negotiating data and technology related commercial agreements including:
• Data and/or software licensing, maintenance and support, consulting and/or professional services agreements
• Master services/Framework Agreements
• Partner agreements – contracts with resellers, referrers and other intermediaries
• Various other commercial agreements that may arise with clients (and occasionally suppliers or group companies)
• Assisting product and legal teams to prepare new contract templates for new products and propositions along with product special terms and conditions.  
• Working with legal teams to help make changes to standard terms and conditions.
• Ensuring that deals are consistent with Experian policies as set out in the Legal “play book” and any exceptions are escalated for approval at the appropriate level
• Working with legal department helping to reinforce policies and procedures
• Supporting and providing advice the practical implementation of contracts into contract automation/review systems/processes.
• Assist with strategic projects, M&A activities, joint ventures, marketing campaigns and new product launches.
• Support regulatory engagement and provide legal input into the risk assessment and compliance functions.
• Deliver relevant training to business units.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of well-prepared precedents and implement legal technology to manage and deliver efficient legal service.

Key responsibilities will include:

• proactively managing assigned customers;
• ensuring a superior level of customer service to facilitate client access to Medilaw's Independent Medical Exams and other Medilaw services according to the client's needs; 
• promptly answering the phone to all clients and managing appointments and appointment related inquiries in line with Medilaw procedures;
• delivering superior customer service & client liaison to our key stakeholders;
• actively promoting new products/services to assigned existing clients.

The UP&E Business & Legal Affairs team is seeking an experienced, motivated, and collaborative in-house lawyer to support the Consumer Products business across the Asia Pacific region (APAC).  The role will look after contract needs related to IP consumer product and publishing licensing agreements, retail/marketing campaigns, design asset creation and other services arrangements and provide business & legal affairs support to commercial/category and creative teams across UP&E APAC offices in Sydney, Tokyo & Seoul. You will work closely with cross-functional partners in compliance, tax, IP enforcement, accounting/finance and other business and legal stakeholders located in Universal’s APAC, Los Angeles and London offices as you work across a range of licensing and legal issues.  This role will report to the VP, Business & Legal Affairs based in London.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise and coordinate with category management, marketing, product development, creative, and finance executives at all levels of seniority to identify and resolve business and legal issues (including issues relating to contract interpretation), mitigate risk, and provide ongoing counsel, advice and support.
• Draft, manage and negotiate a high volume of intellectual property license and service agreements associated with the licensing, distribution, promotion and marketing of toys, apparel, books and other consumer goods.
• Management of junior staff, fostering training and development whilst concurringly managing an independent workload.
• Supervise and review contracts and related legal work product generated by the Business & Legal Affairs team, aligning priorities and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with NBCUniversal tax, compliance, IP/trademark, controllership/finance, litigation and other internal teams on a range of issues.
• Advise internal stakeholders on new business propositions, undertake research and identify potential issues and risks.
• Create ad-hoc contracts and legal documents as business requirements dictate.
• Assist with royalty audits, interpreting contractual language and finalising settlement agreements.
• Perform additional duties and manage special projects as needed.

What a Senior Associate Counsel, Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific in Legal does at Visa:

The position is for a highly motivated and skilled lawyer to join Visa's growing legal team. You will be a key regulatory and commercial legal lead supporting the Visa business teams as they expand their value-added services and product offerings to enhance value for traditional bank/FI clients as well as develop new clients/partners/business streams in the evolving payment ecosystem. You will be exposed to a broad range of product and commercial legal work, supporting regulatory reviews and commercial negotiations in the areas of value added services, including digital/tech partnerships, acceptance solutions, and other financial/technology products and services.

You will report to the Senior Managing Counsel for Visa Legal in the Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific region and will work closely and in collaboration with Visa lawyers across geographies and functional support areas, including the Visa lawyers from Singapore, the US headquarters and other international offices.

You should have a good working knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to financial, digital and payments services, including payments/FI licensing, data privacy and outsourcing regulatory regimes in Australia (and preferably, in addition, New Zealand) and have experience in conducting and leading regulatory reviews and contractual negotiations.  You should also be well versed in commercial, technology and IP laws, and be able to apply this experience to your role in Visa by being a sound and practical legal advisor to the business.  You must have excellent risk judgment and analytical capability, and be a strong and efficient communicator, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced and challenging, but rewarding, environment. 

In this role, you are expected to:

• Be the lead counsel driving commercial negotiations on both the supply side as well as the client facing side.
• Assist with regulatory consultations/compliance with regulations across the region as applicable to existing or new Visa products/initiatives.
• Assist with regulatory issues relating to products, services or functions.
• Draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, technology, or strategic partnership agreements in support of business objectives.
• Provide advice and guidance to business and product teams regarding deal structures and key risks and proactively identify and resolve legal issues/risks.
• Possess strong inter-personal skills including the ability to communicate complex legal issues (and relevant solutions/recommendations), clearly and practically to the business.
• Travel as needed.

Why this is important to Visa

The Senior Associate Counsel will play a key role as a trusted advisor to our commercial solutions and products businesses that represent some of the most important pillars of Visa’s future growth and strategy. This role is critical in ensuring that both supply and client facing contracts and negotiations are managed efficiently with relevant stakeholders while enabling our business to innovate and push across new frontiers (particularly in the fast-evolving global payments industry).

The Senior Associate Counsel can look forward to being a key representative of a high performing Legal team in advising and managing projects that drive innovation and development within the payments industry.

Projects you will be a part of:

You will be a member of a local and regional legal team that works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges in the commercial/technology law space