Property Energy and Infrastructure Senior Associate ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE, United Kingdom and[...]

Two Property Energy and Infrastructure Senior Associates 8+ PQE

Location: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds or Manchester 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit two Property Lawyers to join the Property Energy 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, Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds or Manchester . We are ideally looking to recruit a candidate with upwards of 8 years’ PQE who is admitted and qualified in either England & Wales or Scotland and has 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.
• Advised the shareholders of the 576 MW Awel Y Môr Offshore Wind Farm project (RWE/SWM/Siemens/GIG). This included agreements with the neighbouring Gwynt Y Môr offshore wind farm on compensation for production losses, the terms of the grid connection and the lease agreements for the project.
• Advising the project promoter on all property aspects of a major carbon capture, utilisation and storage project in the UK.
• Advising Tesco Stores Limited on the lease arrangements with various suppliers for the roll out of roof top solar on Tesco's portfolio of stores in the UK as part of Tesco's pathway to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2035.
• Advised Cory Environmental Limited on the property aspects of its 96MW Riverside Energy Park on the banks of the River Thames which will include waste energy recovery, waste anaerobic digestion, battery storage and solar generation and associated electrical connections.
• Advised Transport for London on all property aspects of the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel project in east London.
• Advising the Environment Agency on all property issues related to the £500m River Thames Flood Defence Scheme. 

The Candidate Required

The successful candidates will be either England & Wales or Scotland qualified (or dual 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 UK-wide team will encounter a broad range of energy and infrastructure property work, acting for a range of high-profile 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 candidate will sit within our Development & Investment team (which is part of our UK national Property Group), they will have close links to our energy and infrastructure sectors, which are two of our Global Sectors.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,400 employees operating out of 27 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional 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 in-house 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 first-class training and career development programme, monthly 121s, career discussions and biannual 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

Pinsent Masons won the ‘Best Talent and Inclusion’ award at The Lawyer Awards 2022 and is the only law firm named in the top 16 most inclusive businesses in Europe by the Financial Times Diversity Leaders Report. The firm is named amongst the top inclusive UK employers for the 16th consecutive year by LGBT+ equality charity Stonewall in its Workplace Equality Index and won the Legal Business ‘Law Firm of the Year’ award in 2021. Go to to view all of our global awards and nominations.

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen Wallington who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details:

anwen.wallington@pinsentmasons.com

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

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