Energy Property Associates

Pinsent Masons; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinsent Masons seeks a Property Lawyer with 3-6 years’ PQE to join their dynamic Energy Property team, operating from any of their Scottish offices. You'll engage in significant energy/infrastructure projects, advising major clients while contributing to a team of specialists dedicated to innovative legal solutions.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years’ PQE required.
• Experience in energy/infrastructure property work.
• Outgoing personality with a focus on client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Advise on property aspects of major energy/infrastructure projects.
• Engage with high-profile clients on significant transactions.
• Work on diverse projects: wind, solar, hydrogen, carbon capture.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Client management

Business development

Technical excellence

Team player

Education

Scottish Qualified Lawyer

Strong academic background

Job description

Energy Property Associates 3- 6 years’ PQE

Location: Scotland
Contract Type: Permanent

Brief

We are currently looking for Property Lawyers to join our market leading Energy Property team as part of our expanding global Property Group.

The candidates can be based at any of our Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow offices. We are ideally looking to recruit candidates with 3-6 years’ PQE who are admitted and qualified in Scotland and have 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 within 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.

Work Highlights

• Advising bp Aberdeen Hydrogen Limited (a joint venture between bp International Limited and Aberdeen City Council) on the property aspects of their 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 multiple Scotwind projects in respect of all onshore and offshore property arrangements.
• Advising Statkraft in relation to its pipeline of onshore wind developments and its acquisition of a pumped storage hydro project in Loch Ness in Scotland.
• Advising Capital Dynamics on their acquisition of Longhill, Sorbie, Pines Burn, Garbet and Douglas West Extension wind farms in Scotland.
• Advising KfW in relation to the project financing and refinancing by Community Wind Power of various wind farms in Scotland (including Aikengall, Sanquhar, Calder Water and Millour Hill Wind Farms).
• Advising Zenobe on Europe’s largest battery storage financing of 500MW of projects in Scotland.

The Candidates Required

The successful candidates will be Scottish qualified and will have relevant experience of energy and/or major infrastructure property work within a large regional or national practice.

They will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality. Candidates 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.

Lawyers 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.