Senior Legal Counsel
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About the Role
A leading international law firm seeks a Senior Legal Counsel to lead client engagements on complex energy and infrastructure transactions. The role involves providing strategic legal advice, winning high-value mandates, and mentoring junior lawyers.
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Responsibilities
- Lead client engagements on complex energy and infrastructure transactions
- Provide strategic legal advice to developers, investors, governments and sponsors
- Play a key role in winning and growing high value mandates and building long term client relationships
- Mentor and develop junior lawyers within the team
- Support practice growth, positioning the firm as a trusted advisor in energy transition and infrastructure markets
Requirements
- Deep expertise in energy, infrastructure, transport, utilities, or renewable projects
- Experience in project development, finance, regulatory and contractual matters
- Ability to win and grow high value mandates
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Role Overview
- BWP are currently representing a leading international law firm with a broad global footprint and a full service practice covering corporate, commercial, finance, regulatory, infrastructure, and energy matters.
- The firm advises clients across sectors including energy, infrastructure, transport, utilities, and renewable projects, offering deep technical legal expertise, project related support, and strategic commercial advice from project inception through delivery internationally.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead client engagements on complex energy and infrastructure transactions, including project development, finance, regulatory and contractual matters.
- Provide strategic legal advice to developers, investors, governments and sponsors on major power, utilities, renewables and infrastructure programmes.
- Play a key role in winning and growing high value mandates, and building long term client relationships.
- Mentor and develop junior lawyers within the team to strengthen sector expertise and delivery capability.
- Support practice growth, positioning the firm as a trusted advisor in energy transition and infrastructure markets.
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