Energy Property Senior Associates
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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 Europes 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 UKwide team will encounter a broad range of energy and infrastructure property work acting for a range of highprofile 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 multidisciplinary sector teams energy and infrastructure being two of our Global Sectors.
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 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 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 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
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 you require further details please contact our inhouse 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.
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