Energy Property Senior Associates

Pinsent Masons; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global law firm seeks a Senior Associate in Scotland for their Energy Property team. The role entails advising on significant energy and infrastructure projects while working within a collaborative environment. Candidates should possess substantial experience and demonstrable skills in property law, particularly in relation to energy sectors.

Benefits

First-class training and career development programme

Dynamic and inclusive work environment

Market-leading global team

Qualifications

• 8+ years PQE in property law, especially with energy/infrastructure projects.
• Candidates should exhibit commercial awareness and business development skills.
• Strong client-focused approach and teamwork skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Advise on property aspects for energy and infrastructure projects.
• Collaborate with a dynamic team on high-profile transactions.
• Engage with various clients to ensure their legal needs are met.

Skills

Property law expertise

Energy sector knowledge

Infrastructure project experience

Commercial awareness

Business development

Education

Qualified lawyer in Scotland

Strong academic background

Job description

Energy Property Senior Associates (8 + years PQE)

Location: Scotland

Contract Type: Permanent

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit Property Lawyers to join the Energy Property and Infrastructure subteam within our Development & Investment team, part of our UK National Property Group. This person can be based at any of our Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow offices. We are ideally looking to recruit candidates with upwards of 8 years' PQE who are admitted and qualified in Scotland and have experience of the property aspects of energy and/or infrastructure projects.

About the Team

We boast one of the largest groups of property lawyers in the UK who are dedicated to supporting the Energy & Infrastructure Sectors, including many renowned experts. Clients praise us for our sector knowledge, commercial approach, providing clear, relevant and timely advice.

Our depth and breadth of experience coupled with our specialist knowledge means that whether we are advising on a major offshore wind farm or a portfolio of EV charging stations, our clients receive the legal support they require, when and how they want it.

Sector insight is absolutely central to the way we work. In the energy sector our clients include the landowners, developers, funders and investors involved in all energy technologies and all sizes and shapes of projects. In the infrastructure sector, our work has included major road and rail projects for Transport for London and Highways England

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 many years' experience in property work on energy and infrastructure projects with 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, commercially aware and enthusiastic about, 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 range of high-profile clients on large and nationally significant energy and infrastructure transactions. In particular the successful candidate will work on wind (on and offshore), solar, hydrogen, carbon capture, battery storage and nuclear transactions in the energy sphere and road, rail and ports and other major infrastructure projects, acting for a mix of clients, including public authorities, developers, investors, funders and utility companies. Whilst the successful candidates will sit within the specialist Energy Property subteam within our Development & Investment team (which is part of our UK national Property Group), they will also have close links to our global, multi-disciplinary sector teams, energy and infrastructure being two of our Global Sectors.

About the Firm

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 financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, 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 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.
• We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, regular 121s, career discussions and annual appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver "best of breed" services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

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.

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades.

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.

As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Contact details:
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