Legal Counsel - LNG

TN United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking a Legal Counsel for its LNG business in London. The role involves managing contracts, providing legal advice, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure compliance and best practices. The ideal candidate will have a legal qualification and relevant experience in the energy sector.

Qualifications

• Experience from a top-tier law firm or in-house within the energy commodities sector.
• Ability to break down complex contractual issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts related to LNG.
• Providing strategic legal advice to the LNG trading team.
• Managing the internal contract review process.

Skills

Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Organizational Skills

Professional Awareness

Education

Relevant Legal Qualification

Job description

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We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that’s energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently – we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it and mend it.

About your team:

At Centrica Energy, our mission is to move it.

We’re energy movers by nature. We’re a global renewable energy trading company which helps move energy from source to use – powering businesses, homes, and societies as they transition to a new sustainable energy future. If the idea of working to create a sustainable energy future also moves you, we may very well be the right place for you.

Centrica Energy’s LNG business is a key growth area, and we are excited to offer a new opportunity for a Legal Counsel – LNG to join our team and play a key part in enabling this growth.

The role is based out of our central London office (close to Marble Arch) with three days per week in the office.

About the role

As part of the legal team dedicated to our LNG business, you will be responsible for managing a varied workload including the following:

Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts predominantly comprising LNG master sale and purchase agreements and confirmation notices, and also including LNG charterparties, road tanker agreements, bunker agreements, services agreements, confidentiality agreements, parent company guarantees, letters of credit, book-out agreements, and amendments, novations, and assignments of these agreements

Managing the internal contract review process to ensure all contracts have the appropriate internal approvals prior to execution including following up with stakeholders as necessary

Liaising with internal teams (e.g. credit, tax, finance, trading) to obtain their input, and negotiating and finalising contracts with counterparties ensuring that contracts are finalised by deal-critical deadlines

Providing strategic legal advice to the LNG trading team on short and medium-term LNG sale and purchase transactions and chartering of LNG ships

Maintaining and updating Centrica’s standard LNG agreements and templates, proactively keeping up to date with legal, business, and market developments impacting the terms required as well as managing Centrica's overall legal risk position by ensuring that contracts reflect best practices.

Working as part of project teams for transactional work or to help implement new processes, products, and systems, such as approving new strategic business initiatives, new products, and entry into new geographical jurisdictions

You will be expected to create and leverage a network of relationships across the LNG team and Centrica Energy more broadly to ensure the legal team is involved and engaged with all material projects and issues across the business' activities

About you

In Centrica, the legal function is proactive – integrated throughout the organisation as an enabler and supporter of the business. It is commercially oriented and service-focused.

We are looking for a colleague who excels in collaboration with various stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of commercial and legal requirements. The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter who can autonomously drive transactions forward while effectively balancing multiple priorities. They should possess a professional demeanor and the ability to build strong internal relationships.

Key requirements and competencies for this role include:

Hold a relevant legal qualification

Relevant experience from either a top-tier law firm or in-house within the energy commodities sector

Ability to break down complex contractual issues effectively to allow for clear understanding and decision-making

Strong level of professional awareness of legal and industry developments affecting the energy industry, compliance issues, and future trends within the industry

Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills

Centrica Energy is the trading arm of Centrica. We trade power, gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and energy attributes and connect producers, suppliers and off takers in the wholesale energy markets - and we provide our clients with the best route-to-market services available to the market today with physical and financial settlement approaches. In short, we call ourselves Energy Movers By Nature.

We’re a total of 850+ colleagues from over 50 different nations, located in 8 different offices around the world. At our London office, where this role is located, you’ll be joining our international office with over 300 dedicated energy specialists.