Energy Property Associates
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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 36 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 Europes 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 UKwide team will encounter a broad range of energy and infrastructure property work acting for a wide range of highprofile 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.
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm with over 3800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe Asia Pacific Africa and the Middle East. We have a longstanding reputation for delivering highquality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are wellplaced to advise on complex multijurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the energy infrastructure real estate financial services 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 are a purpose led firm and our purpose is to 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 inhouse 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 firstclass training and career development programme regular 121s career discussions and annual appraisals. 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
Were 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 FTs 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 an inclusive employer we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
Should you require further details please contact our inhouse Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen Wallington who can discuss the role and requirements.
Contact details:
#LILRAW
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
