Construction Counsel - Construction Services Business - Housing

Michael Page Legal; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services business is seeking a Legal Counsel based in London to provide high-quality legal advice focusing on construction projects. The role involves working closely with various teams and counterparty legal advisers, ensuring compliance and managing negotiations for agreements. The ideal candidate will be a qualified solicitor with relevant experience, offering significant career development opportunities within the organisation.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of post-qualification experience is preferred.
• Understanding of construction project contractual frameworks.
• Experience in both private practice and in-house roles preferred.

Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice on construction projects, ensuring compliance.
• Drafting and negotiating agreements with project counterparties.
• Managing external legal resources and developing training for colleagues.

Skills

Contract Negotiation

Commercial Awareness

Legal Advice

Education

Qualified Solicitor or Barrister

Job description

This is a Legal Counsel opportunity, centred around in-house construction work, with a large and well-known infrastructure services business.

Client Details

Our Client is a large and well-known infrastructure services business.

Description

You will work closely with business teams especially business development, commercial and senior management and externally with counterparty legal advisers, external legal advisers, contract counterparties and customers.

You will be required to provide timely, high quality, practical and commercially focused legal advice, balancing legal risk with the commercial needs of the business and will be responsible for:

• Providing commercially focused legal advice on a broad range of projects ensuring compliance with applicable law.
• Reviewing, negotiating and/or drafting agreements and conducting contract negotiations with project counterparties primarily for construction, refurbishment and related services.
• Supporting on commercial and contractual matters for tenders, projects, variations and on-going contractual and operational matters.
• Assisting on the governance of transactions at local and group level.
• Working closely with colleagues throughout the group and with customers.
• Managing external legal resource as required.
• Assisting in developing and delivering training on legal matters for colleagues across the business.

Profile

The successful candidate will be a UK (or common law equivalent) qualified solicitor or barrister.

Based on the team structure, work on offer and remuneration for this position they will be like to have between 3 to 6 years of post-qualification experience. There will be flexibility on this point depending on the quality of experience of a specific candidate.

Experience in both private practice and in-house roles preferred but not essential

Pre-requisite:

• Understanding of the contractual framework surrounding construction projects within the UK construction market including experience of negotiating and agreements based on industry standard forms in particular the JCT suite of contracts and NEC.

Desirable:

• Experience of public procurement preferred.
• Experience of construction and refurbishment projects in the housing sector.

Job Offer

For further details relating to the salary, car allowance, bonus and benefits on offer for this role, please apply to this advert or contact David Taylor of Michael Page Legal