Corporate (Energy) Senior Associate / Associate Director

Osborne Clarke; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm is seeking a Senior Associate or Associate Director to join the London M&A team with a focus on energy and energy transition. The successful candidate will handle a variety of transactions while building client relationships within a supportive team. This role requires strong experience in energy M&A and related sectors.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous benefits

Multi-award winning career development programme

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of transactional energy work.
• Experience in commercial energy arrangements, regulation or financing.
• Ideally suited for candidates with a passion for energy sector work.

Responsibilities

• Build client relationships and develop business in a collaborative environment.
• Engage in a wide variety of transactions and projects in the energy sector.
• Work closely with the London corporate and projects teams.

Skills

Energy M&A experience

Commercial energy arrangements

Regulation

Financing

Job description

Role profile

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Associate or Associate Director to join our London M&A team. This role will have a particular focus on the energy and energy transition sector.

You will become part of a thriving team and involved in a wide variety of transactions and projects in the sector. The ideal candidate will have a core practice focused on energy M&A experience, but also with some energy commercial, regulatory and/or financing experience. We're flexible on the exact skillset range outside of a core energy M&A practice.

You will be given responsibility for building client relationships and business development whilst working in a collaborative and supportive team environment.

The practice

Our corporate team is an established leader within the mid‑market, advising UK and international organisations on all aspects of buying and selling public and private companies and businesses. Many of our transactions are cross‑border in nature, with values typically of £50m to £500m and covering the firm's core sectors.

One of the firm's turbocharged sectors is energy and energy transition, and we have a busy team within London corporate M&A working the space. We also work closely with our specialist cross‑service line energy teams covering regulatory (and grid), project finance, real estate, planning, construction and disputes. We've an impressive bench covering the full lifecycle of projects from inception through to secondary markets M&A and decommissioning.

Find out more about the practice here: https://www.osborneclarke.com/sectors/energy-and-utilities/ . In short, OC has a market leading team involved in renewable energy both in the UK and internationally.

The work

• We have a market leading reputation acting for UK mid‑market energy and infrastructure funds on corporate mandates: Foresight, FJEN (JLEN), Downing and Octopus are all key clients
• We also work with commodities trading companies on their M&A and financing mandates – in the UK and internationally, e.g. Trafigura
• We've made strong progress in recent years with DFIs, and for example are on the EBRD English law panel
• We work at the cutting edge of regulatory development, for example advising on the recent CCUS clusters being developed at HyNet and Net Zero Teesside
• We have also worked on several energy VC mandates recently, including for example with an EV battery recycling company

The technologies this has covered include

• Solar PV and rooftop solar
• BESS and energy storage
• AD, biogas and biomethane
• OFTO, offshore wind supply chain and investment work
• Hydrogen, CCUS
• Low carbon permit trading (VERRA, Gold Standard)
• PPP and regulated infrastructure work

The team

We have a bench of 17 London corporate partners, covering M&A, VC, PE and ECM across all of the sectors the OC specialises in.

Within the London team there are two partners specialising in renewable energy investment work – which spans M&A (most of the work), as well as VC, and the equity side of both project development and energy financing.

We've got around 35 other fee earners in London corporate at all levels.

You would work for a range of team members in London corporate and beyond, including working closely with the London projects team.

Technical skills and experience

You will have knowledge and experience of transactional energy work and the ideal candidate will also have experience in commercial energy arrangements, regulation and/or financing, which will have been gained at a well‑respected firm in this field. As a guide, due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are ideally looking to appoint a Senior Associate or Associate Director with a passion for this area, although we will consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi‑award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress
• high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications – if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, incomplete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the recruitment team on [e-mail].

Our recruitment process

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision‑making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations. Our sector‑based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks – not to mention our great teams – are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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