We are seeking a Senior Lawyer (5+ PQE) to join our prestigious Energy, Projects, Infrastructure, and Construction (EPIC) team. If you are a real estate/commercial property lawyer with a passion for clean and renewable energy, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Our national practice is on an upward trajectory, focusing on high-impact projects of national importance. We are flexible with the location, allowing this role to be based at any of our office locations.

What you'll do

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to take on a leadership role in the commercial property sector, with a focus on clean and renewable energy. In this role, you will be instrumental in expanding the Future Energy sector. You will primarily work on renewable energy projects, collaborating closely with our Partners and Principal Directors, while also managing your own cases. Your main goal will be to deliver exceptional client service and work with colleagues to ensure our clients receive comprehensive support.

You will advise clients, including developers, owner-operators, funders, and investors, on solar, storage, EV infrastructure, and other renewable energy projects. Your work will focus on understanding and aligning with clients' commercial objectives, ensuring tasks are performed at the appropriate level with client service as a priority. In addition to renewable energy projects, you will handle various commercial property matters, such as negotiating and drafting leases, managing property transactions, and advising on property development projects. You will ensure that all property-related aspects of energy projects are seamlessly integrated and managed. You will build and maintain strong relationships, providing practical and commercially relevant advice from the outset. You will engage in a wide range of energy and infrastructure property work, representing high-profile clients on significant national transactions.

What we're looking for

You should have significant experience in commercial property, ideally from a large regional or national practice, with a focus on leading energy and infrastructure projects. This includes expertise in options, leases, and renewable energy development. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated, capable of inspiring others, and committed to sharing knowledge and building capacity within the team.

In your current role, you should enjoy engaging with clients and developing relationships as a trusted business adviser. You will understand the commercial context and nuances that influence the sector. In return, we will support your professional growth, providing the resources and encouragement needed to enhance your skills and practice. We will work with you to set realistic and achievable goals to help you reach your career aspirations.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal, as well as professional, development. 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 28 days' annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month), private medical insurance (eligibility applies) and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You 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.

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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, or anything else, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team: recruitment.team@footanstey.com

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 this we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across seven key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers, Private Wealth and Charities. 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 nine locations: Bristol, Southampton, Exeter, Plymouth, Truro, Taunton and London, as well as a 'hub' bases in Manchester, Guildford and 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. 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.

Foot Anstey. Seriously Ambitious.