Senior Associate (Projects, Energy, Environment & Resources)

Ashurst Perkins Coie Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie in Singapore seeks a lawyer with 5 to 6 years of private practice experience to lead financing arrangements for large energy and infrastructure projects.

You will structure, draft and negotiate financing documents, coordinate with DFIs, ECAs and lenders, and mentor junior lawyers while delivering an integrated service to international clients.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years of legal experience in private practice
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex project financing documents
• Strong negotiation and client-management skills

Responsibilities

• Lead on structuring, drafting and negotiating financing arrangements for large-scale energy and infrastructure projects
• Coordinate with partners and supervise junior lawyers
• Negotiate with lenders, DFIs, ECAs and sponsors
• Assist with business development and knowledge sharing within the team

Skills

Project finance

Private practice

Negotiation

English fluency

Education

Law degree

Job description

About Ashurst Perkins Coie

Ashurst Perkins Coie is the global law firm for the future economy.

Description

Ashurst Perkins Coie is the global law firm for the future economy. With more than 3,500 client-facing practitioners across 52 offices worldwide, we advise a broad range of clients, and have a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services - three sectors at the forefront of economic transformation.

Combining global scale, sector insight, and technological capability, Ashurst Perkins Coie helps clients unlock opportunity with market-leading experience in complex transactions, litigation, and regulatory matters.

We support clients through a shifting landscape where technology, and AI in particular, is both an accelerator and disruptor to their business opportunities and challenges and is reshaping how energy, data, and capital move across markets.

Our strengths have earned our lawyers recognition across the profession, and more importantly, the trust of our clients. Our people are our greatest asset, advising clients on complex, cross-border matters and collaborating seamlessly across markets and practices. We offer a global platform for career-defining work and an opportunity to help shape a firm with the culture and confidence to compete at the highest level.

For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition. We have a long legacy of helping clients through moments of transformation with the insight to help them stay ahead.

To find out more please visit our website .

About The Team

Ashurst Perkins Coie's top-tier Asian Projects, Energy, Environment & Resources team specialises in complex, high value and first in kind cross-border transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

We are particularly focused on renewables, energy storage, EV (and related supply chains), biofuels as well as LNG and LNG to power, but also advise on infrastructure projects such as water and transportation infrastructure and digital infrastructure such as data centres.

Our clients include both developers/sponsors, funds and lenders (including development banks/multilaterals and export credit agencies). We operate as a tight-knit integrated team across our Asian offices and regularly cross-staff our transactions with lawyers from the Projects, Energy, Environment & Resources Team in Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo. Given the wide geographical remit of our practice, we also regularly work with our Australian, Middle Easter and European offices.

For more information, please visit the practice group's page on our website.

About The Role

The Projects, Energy, Environment & Resources team in Singapore are looking for a lawyer with 5 to 6 years of legal experience. This opportunity involves acting as the lead non-partner to advise on financing arrangements for major transactions, with support and supervision from relevant partner(s), providing exceptional exposure to complex, large-scale deals.

Our preferred candidate will bring significant, hands-on experience working on the entire suite of financing documentation for large-scale energy (particularly power and LNG) and infrastructure transactions structured as project financings. This includes core experience advising Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), multilateral agencies, export credit agencies (ECAs), or commercial lenders on cross-border transactions, alongside robust transaction management experience and exceptional organizational skills.

We are looking for lateral thinkers and self-starters who possess a genuine interest in the underlying sectors and are enthusiastic about the international exposure this role offers.

Main tasks

• Day to day responsibility for matters, with extensive direct client contact and contact with local counsel.
• Proactively progressing complex matters with appropriate partner support.
• Supporting on the structuring of financing arrangements, as well as drafting and reviewing of financing → term → sheets → core → financing documentation (e.g. common terms agreements, facility agreements, shareholder support agreements, intercreditor agreements), hedging documentation and drafting and/or supervising more junior lawyers developing security documents and ancillary financing documentation.
• Negotiating, with appropriate partner support, with counterparties.
• Managing and supervising signing and closing of conditions precedent under the relevant documentation.
• Advising on waivers under any financing documentation.
• Business development and networking activities.
• Contributing to and refining department know-how.
• Nurturing and mentoring junior lawyers and providing leadership in conjunction with partners.

About You

• 5 to 6 years of legal experience gained (preferably) within private practice.
• Experience working on the structuring, drafting, negotiation and finalization (including managing CP processes) for long-term project financing arrangements for projects in the energy (and particularly power and LNG) and infrastructure space.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including drafting) and excellent organisational skills.
• Confidence to lead effective negotiations with clients and counterparties.
• Strong ability to communicate with and listen to clients in order to understand their needs and how best to meet them. Experience working with local counsel in other jurisdictions and delivering an integrated product.
• Lateral thinker to develop innovative solutions to issues that arise during transactions.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify inconsistencies that indicate problems with quality of work or a misunderstanding of clients' needs.
• Ability to build team morale and motivate team members, contributing to the creation of a positive work environment and to assist with training and development.
• A proactive, positive and energetic approach with a commitment to providing excellent service and a desire to interact with the market and build client relationships.
• All work is performed in English, but any additional languages are welcome.
• Experience with international clients, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), development banks, multilaterals and export credit agencies is preferred but not essential.

Background checks

To comply with regulatory and client requirements, Ashurst Perkins Coie will undertake appropriate vetting of staff. When applicants accept a job offer, Ashurst Perkins Coie, alongside a specialist provider, will undertake professional verification and background checks. These checks are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.

Notice for Recruitment Agencies

As a global law firm, we aim to fill vacancies directly whenever possible. However, if we do need to engage with agencies, we only work with those on our preferred supplier listand will not consider unsolicited applications from agencies not on this list for this role.