Construction - Senior Associate 6-10pqe

2 weeks ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom CMS UK Full time

Our construction and engineering team advises clients across a wide variety of sectors and has significant expertise in large, complex development and urban regeneration projects; operations and facilities management; infrastructure and energy projects;and education and healthcare. Our team is top ranked in both Chambers and the Legal 500 and many of our team are recognised as leaders in their field. No firm has more lawyers listed for England in Who's Who Legal - Construction than CMS

***About CMS** CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 79 offices in 45 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensuresthat we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.

***About the Role** We are an ambitious, highly-regarded and friendly team that has undergone significant growth in recent years. This is a great opportunity to work as part of - and to take a leading role in the development of - our growing Northern team, often working closelywith our wider team in other offices, advising clients on all types of construction projects including commercial, retail, energy, urban regeneration and infrastructure.

Our work is client facing, varied, fast-paced and challenging across a wide variety of sectors working with developers, major institutional investors, public sector and education bodies, contractors, and lenders across the UK and internationally.
The role will involve:

- working as part of a team to provide first class, professional non-contentious construction advice for clients in a wide range of fields;
- working closely with our clients and their professional consultants when drafting and negotiating construction contracts, professional team appointments, guarantees and bonds, collateral warranties and a range of ancillary documents;
- advising on a range of procurement routes and the use of standard form contracts such as NEC, JCT, FIDIC and IChemE as well as bespoke agreements;
- writing articles and presenting at internal and external seminars; and
- taking part in a range of business development activities to help further develop the practice across the North.

Our Northern practice is growing at a significant pace and is a critical part of the firms wider growth plans for the coming years. This is a great opportunity and an ambitious lawyer to be part of our growth at an established, yet still embryonic, stage.
- be admitted as a lawyer to the Law Society of England & Wales;
- have good experience of, and an interest in construction and infrastructure projects;
- be hard working, enjoy a challenge and be happy to work as part of the team to meet deadlines;
- be well-organised and proactive;
- have excellent attention to detail;
- have good written and oral communication skills; and
- have ambition and drive to help further grow our business and attend business development events to start building their own network.

***Equal Opportunities** At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximisetheir potential and thrive. For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.


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