Environment Senior Associate – 7+ PQE
Location: London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen
Contract Type: Permanent
The Brief:
We are currently recruiting for a qualified lawyer with upwards of 7 years PQE to join our Environment Team, to focus on our Climate & Sustainability practice. The candidate will be based within our existing market leading Environment Team, ideally in any of our London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen offices.
We are looking for someone with market leading skills and strong experience in providing both strategic and regulatory advice on the environment, natural capital and climate and sustainability to clients, and who also has skills and experience in contractual drafting and negotiation in this area. We recognise that a key skill will be adaptability and ability to collaborate and learn given the new and evolving nature of this practice area. Example areas of the type of experience we are looking for include:
* Advising on Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality for developers;
* Advising on natural capital projects in the UK and/or overseas;
* Advising on carbon offsetting projects in the UK and/or overseas;
* Drafting and negotiating commercial agreements in relation to BNG, Nutrient Neutrality, natural capital investment, carbon offsetting and other ecosystems services outcomes;
* Advising on other climate & sustainability matters, including climate reporting, extended producer responsibility and supply chain measures;
* Advising on the establishment and operation of natural capital projects, including habitat banks for Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality, carbon offsetting and other ecosystems services;
* Drafting and negotiating of section 106 agreements and conservation covenants to secure natural capital projects.
This is an excellent opportunity to work on a broad range of both climate and sustainability and environmental matters and be part of a national team with senior top ranked specialists.
About the Team:
Our Environment Team 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 experts cover the full range of environmental law and also advise on a wide range of natural capital, climate change and sustainability matters. This includes:
* Net zero, carbon, biodiversity and natural capital advice, including nature-based solutions, offsetting, and EU /UK ETS compliance;
* Environmental aspects of major infrastructure consenting and development, including onshore & offshore renewables, carbon capture & storage, new water resources, and climate change resilience projects;
* Regulatory advice e.g. advising on remediation liability, nuclear regulation, water licensing, waste management, environmental permitting, extended producer responsibility, F-Gas, WEEE etc.;
Our Environment Team also plays an active role in the firm’s multi-disciplinary Climate and Sustainability Advisory Practice. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside these colleagues as part of a multidisciplinary client team.
Key Clients include:
* Eden Project
* Anglian Water
* Harworth Estates
* Nissan
* Thames Water
* Nattergal
* Ebbsfleet Development Corporation
* Southern Water
* Morgan Sindall
* Drax Power Limited
* Plastic Collective
* Hydrovolt AS
* Environment Agency
* Royal Commission for AlUla
Work highlights:
* Advising the Eden Project on the establishment of a network of wildflower meadows that will generate Biodiversity Net Gain units that can be sold to developers and corporates.
* Advising Nattergal in relation to a large scale re-wilding scheme it is developing, which will rewild and create new and enhanced habitats and other ecosystem services.
* Advising on all environment aspects of the £640m River Thames Scheme, the largest flood defence scheme in the UK.
* Advising Anglian Water on all aspects of its Strategic Resource Option (SRO) water resource projects.
About the Candidate:
The successful candidate will have a strong academic background and ideally will have gained experience working in a large regional or national practice with an understanding of the levels of service delivery required. They will be a team player, have strong client and work handling experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and a drive to getting involved in new and innovative areas of law and advisory work.
The role requires a lawyer who is technically excellent, but, equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about business development. We are looking for a confident advisor, with experience advising on new legal regimes in the dynamic environmental and climate market, a strong client focused approach, who is willing to take responsibility as the main client contact and motivated to supervise and develop junior members of the Environment Team.
What will we offer you?
* We are a market leading, dynamic and growing 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.
* Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.
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.
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. The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors.
We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people.
Awards
Pinsent Masons has achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm.
Should you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Advisor, Anwen Wallington.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anwen-wallington-36177ba1/
anwen.wallington@pinsentmasons.com
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