Senior Environment Lawyer

4 weeks ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Pinsent Masons Full time

Job Title: Senior Environment Lawyer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Environment Lawyer to join our market-leading Environment practice. As a key member of our team, you will provide strategic environmental advice to clients and support our lawyers in contentious environmental work and environmental litigation.

About the Role:

As a Senior Environment Lawyer, you will work closely with our clients to understand their environmental needs and provide tailored advice on regulatory compliance, transactional environmental issues, and environmental permitting. You will also assist our clients in responding to civil penalty notices and advising on the civil sanction enforcement powers employed by SEPA and the EA.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide strategic environmental advice to clients on regulatory compliance, transactional environmental issues, and environmental permitting.
  • Support our lawyers in contentious environmental work and environmental litigation.
  • Assist clients in responding to civil penalty notices and advising on the civil sanction enforcement powers employed by SEPA and the EA.
  • Work closely with our clients to understand their environmental needs and provide tailored advice.

Requirements:

We are looking for a team player with a strong client-focused approach, who is keen to support our Environment Team across the full spectrum of their work. As noted, we are particularly interested in candidates with experience of contentious environmental work/ environmental litigation.

The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience working in a large regional or national practice and understand the levels of service delivery required. They will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality.

What We Offer:

  • 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.
  • Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

Our Environment Team:

Our Environment practice sits within 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, including regulatory advice, transactional advice, regulatory enforcement, net zero, carbon, biodiversity and natural capital advice, and environmental aspects of major infrastructure consenting and development.

Key Clients:

  • bp
  • Drax Power Limited
  • Balfour Beatty
  • 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 from 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.

Why Join Us:

We are a 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. Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships are also available.

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