Legal Counsel

LEGAL COUNSEL UK (Edinburgh London Bristol)

Are you a lawyer looking to be part of a growing low carbon heat business and contribute to fossil freedom If so this is for you.

We offer an exciting opportunity for a legal counsel (3-5 years PQE) to take an important role in paving the way for Vattenfall and its customers and partners towards a fossil free future. We are looking for a legal counsel to support our UK Heat business part of the Vattenfall organisation.

Your responsibilities as Legal Counsel

As the demand for legal expertise in our Heat business continues to grow we are looking to recruit a Legal Counsel in our Legal team in the UK. You will be focussed on all legal and contractual matters for the UK Heat business reporting to the Director of Legal UK. You will be working closely with the two Senior Legal Counsels who support this part of the business together with the Managing Director and other business Directors Sales Delivery and Project Managers focussing on both upstream and downstream contracts and associated legal matters.

You will be expected to be able to hit the ground running on a wide variety of legal matters. This includes having an excellent working knowledge of negotiating commercial contracts including contracts of a public nature whilst working on the delivery supply construction and operational contracts for large network schemes comprising heating cooling and other innovative energy solutions. You will need to be able to structure new relationships contractually understand the interaction with various public/private corporate structures and advise on both organic and inorganic growth. You will also need to understand backing risk between upstream and downstream contracts and be comfortable negotiating connection and supply arrangements.

A projects commercial and/or construction background (in either legal or a previous career) would be an advantage in applying for this role dealing with the entirety of contractual relationships in a cradle to grave approach. Experience in negotiating necessary land rights would be useful or if not a willingness to upskill in this area. The Heat team handles a range of contracts of varying value and type and therefore an ability to demonstrate a wide range of legal and commercial skills will be beneficial.

Ideally you will have experience of negotiating and structuring project contracts in the district heating or utilities market in either the public or private sector. Renewables experience would also be very helpful.

Your personality and background

The remit is diverse and challenging and you will need to be commercially aware and minded pragmatic and able to work effectively under pressure. You will be an exceptional and talented individual with good communication and interpersonal skills and able to work independently as well as part of a team. You will need to be able to think and act strategically and take a risk based view when providing responsive and effective advice.

The Heat team is an exciting and dynamic team. You will be expected to work daily with colleagues from a number of different specialisms from engineering and design to health and safety to operational and customer service teams. You will need to be extremely organised dedicated and proactive in order to manage a multitude of tasks on a daily basis.

Qualifications :

Your qualifications as Legal Counsel

You will be an English or Scottish qualified lawyer with solid commercial experience gained at a respected law firm or in-house of 3- 5 years PQE.

Additional Information :

Our offer 
Good remuneration a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. 

More Information 
We welcome your application in English no later than 27/07/2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 
 
For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Adam Hammond via  

Commitment to Diversity

Vattenfall is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family friendly inclusive employment policies flexible working arrangements staff engagement forums and services to support all our employees.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender ethnicity age transgender identity or expression religion or other belief disability or sexual orientation. 
 
We look forward to receiving your application! 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time