Careers
Work alongside our exceptional team on a wide range of challenging and exciting work. Our team enjoy building deep and trusted relationships with our clients and working collaboratively to support one another.
Why Join Us
Join a workplace with an authentically human approach to legal practice. Hazelbrook’s founding principles were to build a law practice where people truly enjoyed the company of their colleagues, where the team supports one another to deliver exceptional results for their clients and where the work is interesting and rewarding.
There’s no secret to how we attract and maintain exceptional people: be kind and empathetic; foster a collaborative and supportive culture; provide work that is interesting and challenging and reward hard work. Hazelbrook offers you a brilliant environment to practice a diverse range of corporate law and develop your legal skills for a stellar future career.
Genuine Benefits
At Hazelbrook we have a genuine focus on employee training, development and wellbeing.
Our Health and Wellbeing Program includes:
- In-house mindfulness sessions;
- Whole-firm overseas offsites (our last one was in Queenstown New Zealand);
- Regular paid social events including dinners, lunches and drinks and cultural trips outside the office during work hours; and
- Discounted hotel and gym memberships.
We provide training and development benefits including:
- Paid study leave;
- Formal mentoring;
- Whole office strategy sessions; and
- Hazelbrook Career Acceleration program – bespoke training and personalised career planning with our Head of People & Wellbeing.
Be rewarded for your hard work and initiative with our innovative and fully inclusive bonus and reward scheme.
Hazelbrook Legal’s Career Acceleration Program
At Hazelbrook, we understand how important it is to be supported in your career development. As a firm genuinely committed to the wellbeing and development of its people, Hazelbrook Legal have established a bespoke and highly personalised career acceleration program (CAP) for legal professionals.
Our CAP encompasses a range of tools and resources, as well as being overseen and managed by our Head of People & Wellbeing. As a globally experienced top-tier and magic circle legal HR Professional, our Head of People & Wellbeing is passionate about working with lawyers and professionals at all levels to support them to achieve their career goals.
This Program provides you with:
- A dedicated and highly experienced career professional motivated to see you develop;
- A focus on strengthening essential soft skills that you need in order to reach the top of the profession;
- One-on-one coaching to help you achieve your individual career aspirations;
- Opportunity to gain fresh perspectives on the behind-the-scenes aspects of how to succeed in the industry, including culture and law firm operations;
- Mentoring by top lawyers and legal professionals in the industry; and
- A robust framework to provide transparency on pathways within the firm.
Clerkship Program
Our programs allow you to experience the full breadth of Corporate Law work from Day one.
At Hazelbrook we offer you a truly supportive working environment, where you will have direct client contact from the get-go, the opportunity to build deep relationships and networks, greater responsibility and genuine progression.
Clerkship Program
Ready to put theory into practice?
A clerk at Hazelbrook will experience what it’s like to work within a fast-paced corporate team where you will experience a broad range of practice areas including: corporate contracting; IP and data privacy; commercial litigation; funds (VC and PE), financial services and regulatory; and mergers and acquisitions.
In our program you will:
- Be part of a team working on complex corporate matters working with change makers of industry.
- Have fun in a supportive high-performance environment.
- Do real work assisting the team on a variety of corporate matters.
- Be empowered with a range of initiatives to position you for success.
- Learn the importance of commerciality and other soft skills alongside legal skills.
- Be mentored by top-tier lawyers who are friendly, smart and eager to see young lawyers excel.
- Experience what it’s really like to work in a market leading law firm.
High performing clerks may have the opportunity to progress to a graduate position with Hazelbrook Legal.
This program is most suitable for students in their penultimate year of law. However, we are willing to consider those in their final year.
Applications for our 2025 Clerkship Program will open on
11 June 2025 and close on Sunday 6 July 2025.
Please apply by sending your cover letter, CV and academic transcript to Simone at careers@hazelbrooklegal.com
Our 2025 Clerkship program will run from
24 November 2025 until 30 January 2026.
Opportunities
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for legal practitioners at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.
If you would like to apply to our Clerkship Program, please see full program details and dates available on the main Careers page.
Legal Support Professionals
Legal Support Professionals
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for Legal Support Professionals at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.
Legal Practitioners
Legal Practitioners
Role: Corporate, M&A
We are looking for a Senior Associate with 4 - 6 PQE in Corporate M&A.
Location: Sydney or Canberra
ABOUT HAZELBROOK LEGAL
Hazelbrook Legal is a strategic legal advisory firm specializing in complex corporate, financial services, funds, and public and private M&A law. With offices in Sydney and Canberra, we work alongside some of the most innovative and exciting businesses across Australia and offshore. We have developed a nationally awarded practice with a high-performing team that operates in a driven and supportive environment.
THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Associate with 4 - 6 years PQE in Corporate M&A to join our dynamic, tightly knit team in either our Canberra or Sydney office. This role offers the opportunity to work across a broad range of practice areas while deepening your existing specialty. You will assist across the full suite of corporate and transactional advice, including:
- Private and public M&A
- Corporate structuring and restructuring
- Commercial contracting
- ECM
- Lending and corporate finance
- Employment and workplace relations
- Outsourced legal general counsel
- IP including IP commercialization
- Corporate governance and company secretarial services
WHY CHOOSE HAZELBROOK?
Relationships Our team is committed to building genuine relationships with each other, our clients, and our partners. We have built our client base solely through word of mouth and the strength of our relationships.
Calibre of Work and Clients Work at the top end of town with deals and clients who are regularly featured in the AFR and transactions with significant ramifications, including cross-border matters. Work alongside industry-recognized lawyers.
Genuine Progression We offer clear and transparent pathways. We have clearly defined career frameworks, training, resources, and mentoring to help you build deep client relationships and networks, greater responsibility, and genuine progression. We believe in ‘growing our own.’
Development and Training Hazelbrook Legal is committed to the professional development of its people. Our bespoke and highly personalized career acceleration program (CAP) encompasses a range of training, tools, and resources to develop well-rounded professionals. Focused on skills that set you up for success and position you for progression, we develop your leadership, mentoring, commerciality, communication, business development, and brand skills, as well as your technical expertise. This program is overseen and managed by our Head of People & Wellbeing.
Remuneration Be rewarded for your hard work and initiative with our innovative and inclusive bonus and reward scheme. Hazelbrook has a competitive, market-driven, and merit-based reward scheme. Fee earners are eligible for rewards throughout the year.
Award-Winning Hazelbrook Legal and our senior leaders are multi-award winning. In 2020, 2022, and 2023, we were finalists for Australian Law Firm of the Year at the Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards. In 2023, we were winners of Boutique Diversity Law Firm of the Year and listed with Best Lawyers for 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Culture and Diversity We have a supportive working environment, excellent training, and mentoring, including whole team business strategy sessions. We are proud to have always maintained a gender-balanced workforce (including the leadership team) and genuine progression opportunities.
Community and Sustainability We make impactful contributions to our local and global communities through considered partnerships. Our team is encouraged to take part in our pro bono initiatives throughout the year.
Social and Wellbeing Join a workplace with an authentically human approach to legal practice. We are a tight-knit team that supports each other and makes time for social events, including cultural visits, bookclub, sporting activities, family events, and offsites.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
Ideal candidates will be experienced Corporate and M&A lawyers with approximately 4 - 6 years PQE.
Eligibility
- All applicants must be Australian Citizens or hold Australian Residency
- Direct applicants only
How to Apply
Please send a cover letter, transcript and CV addressed to Simone Gigg at careers@hazelbrooklegal.com
Applications will close as soon as a suitable applicant is found.
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for legal practitioners at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.
If you would like to apply to our Clerkship Program, please see full program details and dates available on the main Careers page.
Legal Support Professionals
Legal Support Professionals
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for Legal Support Professionals at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.
Legal Practitioners
Legal Practitioners
Role: Corporate, M&A
We are looking for a Senior Associate with 4 - 6 PQE in Corporate M&A.
Location: Sydney or Canberra
ABOUT HAZELBROOK LEGAL
Hazelbrook Legal is a strategic legal advisory firm specializing in complex corporate, financial services, funds, and public and private M&A law. With offices in Sydney and Canberra, we work alongside some of the most innovative and exciting businesses across Australia and offshore. We have developed a nationally awarded practice with a high-performing team that operates in a driven and supportive environment.
THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Associate with 4 - 6 years PQE in Corporate M&A to join our dynamic, tightly knit team in either our Canberra or Sydney office. This role offers the opportunity to work across a broad range of practice areas while deepening your existing specialty. You will assist across the full suite of corporate and transactional advice, including:
- Private and public M&A
- Corporate structuring and restructuring
- Commercial contracting
- ECM
- Lending and corporate finance
- Employment and workplace relations
- Outsourced legal general counsel
- IP including IP commercialization
- Corporate governance and company secretarial services
WHY CHOOSE HAZELBROOK?
Relationships Our team is committed to building genuine relationships with each other, our clients, and our partners. We have built our client base solely through word of mouth and the strength of our relationships.
Calibre of Work and Clients Work at the top end of town with deals and clients who are regularly featured in the AFR and transactions with significant ramifications, including cross-border matters. Work alongside industry-recognized lawyers.
Genuine Progression We offer clear and transparent pathways. We have clearly defined career frameworks, training, resources, and mentoring to help you build deep client relationships and networks, greater responsibility, and genuine progression. We believe in ‘growing our own.’
Development and Training Hazelbrook Legal is committed to the professional development of its people. Our bespoke and highly personalized career acceleration program (CAP) encompasses a range of training, tools, and resources to develop well-rounded professionals. Focused on skills that set you up for success and position you for progression, we develop your leadership, mentoring, commerciality, communication, business development, and brand skills, as well as your technical expertise. This program is overseen and managed by our Head of People & Wellbeing.
Remuneration Be rewarded for your hard work and initiative with our innovative and inclusive bonus and reward scheme. Hazelbrook has a competitive, market-driven, and merit-based reward scheme. Fee earners are eligible for rewards throughout the year.
Award-Winning Hazelbrook Legal and our senior leaders are multi-award winning. In 2020, 2022, and 2023, we were finalists for Australian Law Firm of the Year at the Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards. In 2023, we were winners of Boutique Diversity Law Firm of the Year and listed with Best Lawyers for 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Culture and Diversity We have a supportive working environment, excellent training, and mentoring, including whole team business strategy sessions. We are proud to have always maintained a gender-balanced workforce (including the leadership team) and genuine progression opportunities.
Community and Sustainability We make impactful contributions to our local and global communities through considered partnerships. Our team is encouraged to take part in our pro bono initiatives throughout the year.
Social and Wellbeing Join a workplace with an authentically human approach to legal practice. We are a tight-knit team that supports each other and makes time for social events, including cultural visits, bookclub, sporting activities, family events, and offsites.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
Ideal candidates will be experienced Corporate and M&A lawyers with approximately 4 - 6 years PQE.
Eligibility
- All applicants must be Australian Citizens or hold Australian Residency
- Direct applicants only
How to Apply
Please send a cover letter, transcript and CV addressed to Simone Gigg at careers@hazelbrooklegal.com
Applications will close as soon as a suitable applicant is found.