Environment Senior Associate

5 months ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom Pinsent Masons Full time

**Environment Senior Associate 7+ PQE**

**Location: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Brief**

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a broad range of environmental and regulatory matters (both contentious and non-contentious) across the UK and be part of a national team with senior top ranked specialists.

**What our Environment team is known for**:
Our environment practice sits without our market leading Planning & Environment team, which is the largest dedicated planning and environment team in the UK with specialists involved in a wide range of major projects across the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors.

Our Environment Team covers the full range of environmental law. This includes:

- **Regulatory advice **e.g. advising on remediation liability, nuclear regulation, water licensing, waste management, environmental permitting, extended producer responsibility, F-Gas, WEEE etc.;
- **Transactional advice **e.g. providing support to our corporate, restructuring, property, projects and finance teams on transactional environmental issues, e.g. contaminated land liability, asbestos management, permit transfer;
- **Regulatory enforcement **e.g. assisting clients with regulatory investigations; responding to civil penalty notices; and advising on the civil sanction enforcement powers employed by SEPA and the EA;
- **Net zero, carbon, biodiversity and natural capital advice **, including nature-based solutions, offsetting, and EU /UK ETS compliance; and
- **Environmental aspects of major infrastructure consenting and development **, including onshore & offshore renewables, carbon capture & storage, new water resources, and climate change resilience projects.

**Key Clients include**:

- bp
- Drax Power Limited
- Balfour Beatty
- E.ON
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Viridor
- FCC
- ENVA
- Motor Fuel Group
- Heidelberg

**Work highlights**:

- Advising bp on the environmental aspects of its flagship Net Zero Teesside CCUS DCO project and its flagship Hydrogen Projects in Scotland and England.
- Advising Motor Fuel Group on the environmental aspects of its acquisition of 337 petrol forecourts form Morrisons.
- Advising Regenerate Outcomes on the bespoke suite of contractual documentation required for a multi-landowner regenerative farming project, which is designed to increase land condition and generate natural capital outcomes (including verified carbon credits and biodiversity net gain units).
- Advising national house builders, energy and infrastructure developers, manufacturers, Local Authorities and landowners on a range of environmental issues arising from the acquisition and sale of greenfield and brownfield sites, including advising on detailed contaminated land risk allocations/ deeds of indemnity; arranging environmental insurance in respect of on-site contamination and off-site migration; and drafting internal policy guidelines that form part of a residential developer's site approval process.
- Acting for Drax Power Limited on its Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) project.
- Advising developers, contractors and landowners on environmental enforcement, litigation and civil sanction risk in respect of alleged pollution incidents and environmental permit breach occurring during construction, engineering and operational activities.

**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, biannual 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 class" services.
- Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

**_Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen Wallington who can discuss the roles and requirements. _**

**_Contact details: _**

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