Senior Legal Counsel, Development

We’re looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our legal team supporting Lendlease’s Development business, where you will play a critical role in delivering complex, high-profile real estate and development transactions across Australia and Asia.

About the Role

As a trusted legal advisor, you will partner closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to support major development projects, joint ventures, and strategic investments. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, Development, this is a highly visible role where your commercial insight and legal expertise will directly influence business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic legal advice on development transactions across Australia, Singapore, and Japan.

• Structure and negotiate agreements for joint ventures, acquisitions, financings, and major projects.

• Support merger clearance and regulatory matters (including ACCC processes).

• Partner with teams across finance, tax, M&A, and strategy to deliver commercially sound outcomes.

• Manage external counsel and ensure efficient delivery of legal services.

• Drive solutions that are commercial, pragmatic, and aligned to business strategy.

About You

• A law degree and practising certificate.

• Experience in real estate development, projects, or corporate transactions.

• Proven ability to lead negotiations and close complex deals.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Strong experience in a top-tier law firm or in-house environment.

• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong commercial acumen.

• A commercially minded legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

About Us

We are committed to developing and retaining the best people and provide the best possible learning and development opportunities. We are a company who thrive on our employee’s wellbeing, and offer benefits including:   

• Health & Well-being program, including well-being leave to relax and recharge, health assessments, and gym/exercise discounts. 

• Balance your career and personal life with work flexibility, purchase additional annual leave and extensive family support benefits. 

• 26 weeks paid parental leave. 

• 3 x extra Wellbeing days per year (on top of annual leave). 

• Bonus scheme, Employee Share Acquisition program and options for salary sacrificing. 

To find out more about us and to explore all other opportunities visit www.lendlease.com/careers 

At Lendlease we offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equitable treatment and equitable opportunity are just the norm. We remain committed to supporting under-represented groups and providing a wide range of inclusion initiatives, so that everyone is supported to thrive.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in our Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, our Bronze Award with the Australian Workplace Equality Index by Pride in Diversity, and our generous parental leave policy of 26 weeks to any parent regardless of gender.

Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. If you do not meet all the criteria or require adjustments to proceed with your application, we encourage you to reach out for a further discussion.