Energy & Infrastructure Legal Director
Pinsent Masons Llp, City Centre, Manchester
Energy & Infrastructure Legal Director
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Pinsent Masons Llp, City Centre, Manchester
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 22 Dec | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 5011abfe16014f6c9ff2d1b35f756982
Full Job Description
- Advising combined local authorities in Wales on the property aspects of a green hydrogen project comprising a facility for the production, storage and distribution of green hydrogen powered by a ground mounted solar farm located nearby.
- Advising the developers of the 576 MW Awel Y Môr Offshore Wind Farm project on the lease agreements for the offshore project and easements and other property rights for the onshore cable route and grid infrastructure.
- Advising the project promoter on all property aspects of a major carbon capture, utilisation and storage project in the UK.
- Advising Tesco Stores Limited on the lease arrangements with various suppliers for the roll out of roof top solar on Tesco's portfolio of stores in the UK as part of Tesco's pathway to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2035.
- Advising the landowner on the Option Agreement for Scout Moor Extension onshore windfarm in Lancashire.
- Advising Transport for London on all property aspects of the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel project in east London.
- Advising the Environment Agency on all property issues related to its £500m River Thames Flood Defence Scheme. The Candidate Required The successful candidate will be England & Wales qualified and will have relevant experience of energy and/or major infrastructure property work within a large regional or national practice. The role of a Legal Director will signify to clients, the market and to your internal colleagues within Pinsent Masons that you are a highly experienced lawyer capable of advising on complex transactions, managing and developing existing client relationships, leading teams, building networks with other teams across all of our locations to win work from the internal and external market and taking on a wide range of responsibilities. As a Legal Director you will also be participating in many of the activities undertaken by senior leaders in the firm, such as leading client review meetings, developing ideas for new products and services, participating in the promotion process and interviewing new team members., The lawyer joining this friendly and dynamic UK-wide team will encounter a broad range of energy and infrastructure property work, acting for a wide range of high-profile clients on large and nationally significant transactions. In particular, in relation to energy projects, the successful candidate will work on wind (on and offshore), solar, hydrogen, carbon capture, battery storage and nuclear transactions for public authorities, developers, investors, funders and utility companies.
- We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, regular 121s, career discussions and annual appraisals. Our training will assist your development as a leader within our business with specialist valuable sector knowledge. Awards We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index. We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up to the global Valuable 500.
The candidate will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality. They must also be technically excellent but equally important they should be commercially aware and enthusiastic and demonstrate a track record of business development. They will be a team player with a strong client focussed approach.
We are currently looking for a Senior Property Lawyer to join our market leading Energy & Infrastructure Property team in a leadership role as part of our expanding global Property Group. The candidate can be based at any of our Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester offices. The Legal Director role is a meaningful senior fee earner role for a candidate with over 10 years PQE who is admitted and qualified in England & Wales and has relevant experience of the property aspects of energy and/or major infrastructure projects. About the Team We have the largest market leading energy and infrastructure property practice in the UK. Our breadth and depth of experience coupled with our specialist knowledge means that whether we are advising on a major offshore wind farm, a major road, rail or flood defence scheme or a portfolio of EV charging stations, our clients receive the highest quality legal support they require, when and how they want it. Sector insight is absolutely central to the way we work. Energy and Infrastructure are two of our sectors and Energy is a priority investment area for our firm and thus our Property Group. Our clients include landowners, developers, funders and investors involved in all energy technologies and all sizes and shapes of projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors., Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. The firm has significant multinational credentials in the energy, infrastructure, real estate, financial services, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice. We are a purpose led firm and our purpose is to champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work. We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology. What will we offer you? We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.