Legal Counsel

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

Help shape Australia’s energy future with APA.

We’re seeking an enthusiastic corporate Legal Counsel to join our growing in house team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in Australia’s energy transition and contribute to projects that matter.

About the Role

Reporting to the Group Counsel – Corporate and Regulatory, you’ll partner with APA’s business to provide strategic legal advice and deliver results.  You will help support APA’s growth on high profile M&A and corporate finance projects, as well as general corporate matters.

Key responsibilities include:

• Helping to deliver key corporate transactions, including reviewing transaction documents, coordinating due diligence and managing external counsel.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to enable successful transaction delivery.
• Advising on day to day corporate, commercial and financing issues.

About You

You are a qualified lawyer with a full practising certificate in an Australian jurisdiction and 3–7 years of post-qualification experience. You bring:

• A pragmatic and flexible approach to problem-solving.
• Curiosity, a positive attitude and willingness to pitch in to deliver results.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience in any of the following areas will be highly regarded:
  • Corporate Finance
  • Energy industry
  • Joint ventures
  • Capital markets – debt and equity
  • ESG reporting

Working at APA

At APA we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We’ll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employ more than 2700 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.