Senior Counsel - Construction

Michael Page Legal; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in the energy and construction sector is seeking a Senior Counsel to provide expert legal assistance. Responsibilities include negotiating agreements, managing legal risks, and advising on compliance with regulations. This role offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working pattern.

Qualifications

• Experience in UK construction market contractual frameworks.
• Ability to negotiate and draft agreements based on JCT and NEC standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercially focused legal advice on projects.
• Review and negotiate construction agreements.
• Support contractual matters for tenders and ongoing projects.

Skills

Understanding of contractual frameworks

Negotiating agreements

Legal advisory

Contract management

Job description

The Senior Counsel role offers an exciting opportunity to provide expert legal guidance within the energy, design and construction sector. Based in Central London, this role will focus on managing legal risks, supporting on a wide range transactional work, providing guidance on all relevant regulations and advising on broader generalist operational work.

Client Details

This award winning, growing organisation operates within the energy, design and construction sector, delivering specialised solutions to a variety of clients. With a focus on innovation and efficiency, the company is known for its commitment to high-quality service and operational excellence.

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

A successful Senior Counsel should have demonstrable experience and proven 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.
• Experience of construction and refurbishment projects in the housing sector.

Job Offer

On offer is a competitive base salary and benefits package together with hybrid working pattern.