Lawyer, Infrastructure Finance

  • Full-time
  • Role category: Lawyer
  • Employment type: Permanent
  • Work pattern: Full time
  • Location: Melbourne

Job Description

About Gilbert + Tobin
Gilbert + Tobin is built on enduring values of excellence, trust, respect, integrity and good corporate citizenship. We are a leading firm with over 500 lawyers, trusted by our clients to navigate today’s increasingly complex world.

We are purpose-built for our clients’ most complex work - across transactions, disputes and regulation. Our partners are leaders in their fields, delivering the highest quality of legal advice and providing an exceptional edge for our clients. They also provide our lawyers the opportunity to work with and learn from them. We are innovators in the use of technology, redefining value and service in the legal industry.

Our open, merit-based culture attracts and inspires the best legal talent. Founded in 1988, G+T’s journey has been one of relentless ambition and rapid progress, achieving extraordinary success in just over three decades.

We remain as determined as ever to be the best it’s possible to be

About the Banking and Projects team

Our Banking and Projects team advises sponsors, borrowers and lenders on complex and high-profile financing transactions across infrastructure, energy, resources and other asset classes. We combine deep financial markets expertise with a strong commercial focus to deliver successful outcomes for clients on some of the most significant transactions in the market.

This role offers the opportunity to work with John Schembri and James Frixou, as well as other leading lawyers across our Banking and Projects

The team works on a broad range of infrastructure financings, with a particular focus on:

  • Digital infrastructure, including cutting-edge AI infrastructure and GPU financings, data centres and other digital infrastructure assets
  • Social infrastructure, including social and affordable housing, schools, hospitals and other public-private partnerships (PPPs)
  • Other infrastructure and asset classes, including energy and resources

Key recent deals include:

  • Firmus on its USD10 billion GPU financing facility supporting the staged acquisition and deployment of high-performance GPU clusters (NVIDIA GB300 chips) and associated infrastructure.
  • Macquarie Bank on a $165 million senior GPU financing for ResetData, supporting the next phase of its growth in sovereign AI compute infrastructure

About you

We are seeking a lawyer with around three to five years’ post-qualification experience (PQE) or equivalent and a strong interest in infrastructure finance / project finance. While our preference is for candidates with direct project finance experience, we are also open to applicants with a property finance or general banking background who are eager to focus their career and build strong relationships with top-tier clients active in this space.

Key skills and experience include:

  • Experience in finance, with exposure to infrastructure finance / project finance highly regarded
  • Strong analytical, negotiation and drafting skills
  • Commercial awareness and ability to work effectively with clients
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively

If you are motivated, proactive and eager to work on technically challenging, high-profile transactions, we want to hear from you.

What we offer you

Gilbert + Tobin offers a friendly, flexible and professional working environment. In addition to top of market remuneration, we provide our people with benefits such as up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave, additional annual leave, a subsidised café, subsidised gym membership, end-of-trip facilities, exclusive retail discounts, social events and much more. You can view our full list of benefits here: gtlaw.com.au/careers/benefits.

Our offices are based in beautiful sunlit open spaces with panoramic views of the city and easy access to public transport, restaurants, cafes and exercise facilities.

Additional Information

Please submit your interest via our career’s website with a resume.
  
We are committed to providing and maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment and a culture where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute.

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