Legal Counsel - Energy and Construction Services Business

Michael Page Legal; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy and infrastructure services business is looking for a Legal Counsel to provide commercial legal advice and support on construction projects. The ideal candidate will be a qualified solicitor or barrister with experience in contract negotiation and an understanding of UK construction law. This role offers a dynamic environment where collaboration with various teams is key.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years post-qualification experience preferred.
• Experience in negotiating contracts based on the JCT suite is advantageous.
• Understanding of UK construction market contractual frameworks is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely, high-quality legal advice on various construction projects.
• Review, negotiate, and draft agreements, conduct contract negotiations.
• Support commercial and contractual matters across various projects.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Negotiation skills

Contract management

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 energy and infrastructure services business.

Client Details

Our Client is a large and well-known energy and 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.

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