Future Energy Lawyer, Construction

Foot Anstey LLP • Full-time • Bristol, GB • 1m ago

We are looking for a Construction Lawyer to join our successful and highly regarded Energy and Infrastructure team. Based in Bristol, or another of our office bases to suit you, with a blend of office and home working available based around client, career and community, this is a superb opportunity for an ambitious and motivated lawyer to play a key role within the clean and renewable energy space.

What You'll Do

In this challenging and varied role, you will play a crucial position in growing and developing the future Energy sector. You will have experience of the energy sector and will be leading on matters directly in collaboration with our team's Partners and Legal Directors. Your focus will be to deliver exceptional client service, working with colleagues to strengthen the skills needed at each level to ensure our clients receive all the support they need, when they need it.

You will be advising our developer, owner-operator and funder clients in the energy sector on solar, storage, EV infrastructure and other renewable and clean energy projects, ensuring work is being done at the right level and with client service central to everything you do. With an understanding of what their commercial drivers are, working collaboratively with clients and tailoring your approach to their goals.

Experienced in developing strong and effective relationships, you will be offering commercially relevant and practical advice from the outset. Working with us, you will encounter a broad range of energy and infrastructure construction work, acting for a range of well-known, high-profile clients on large and nationally significant energy and infrastructure transactions. This is an opportunity to also be involved in great work at the forefront of legal developments, such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, energy market shifts & 'first-of-a-kind' projects.

What We're Looking For

The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience in construction or commercial contracts work with a large regional or national practice. In addition to exposure to energy and infrastructure projects, including knowing their way around the sector-specialist elements of EPC, operations and maintenance agreements, supply contracts (for modules or batteries) and associated security documents and warranties. We're seeking someone who is personally self-motivated and equally able to motivate others; with the enthusiasm and commitment to share knowledge and build capacity across the wider team. In your current work, you will be a strong business developer, able to engage with new clients whilst expanding existing relationships as a trusted business advisor. You do this by readily understanding the commercial context of your clients and the nuances and influences which shape the sector.

The Energy and Infrastructure team at Foot Anstey, which is ranked and recommended in the inaugural Legal 500 Green Guide UK, has huge experience in the renewable / clean energy field and are recognised leaders in the industry. We're seeking someone to invest in who will build and grow our sector strength, and be proactive, motivated and ambitious for its success. You can expect to encounter a broad range of energy and infrastructure construction work, acting for a range of high-profile clients on large and nationally significant energy and infrastructure transactions. In return, you will be fully encouraged, supported and resourced to be successful in growing your skill set and practice, and complementing the considerable skills across the sector team. You'll be keen to progress, and we will work with you to ensure you realise your potential by agreeing realistic and achievable goals which will get you to where you want to go.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, we will invest in you. You will be encouraged, supported, and resourced to be successful in growing your skill set and practice. We will work with you to ensure you realise your potential, by agreeing realistic and achievable goals that will get you to where you want to go.

You can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. Tailored to match the level you're working at, we encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level.

We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with private medical insurance for all lawyers, 28 days annual leave and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. Employees can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team. Contact us at recruitment.team@footanstey.com and we will come back to you as soon as we can.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients' most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we've grown into a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from eight locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton and London, as well as a 'hub' base in Oxford.

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it's something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work-related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

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