Legal Associate
September 7
🔄 Hybrid – London
Description
•An opportunity has arisen to recruit a Legal Counsel to join EPUKI’s growing team. •EPUKI’s legal team works closely with our commercial, technical and finance teams to provide high quality, business focused advice and support. •We play an active part in commercial decision making and risk management alongside our commercial teams. •Development projects in the UK and Ireland. •Acquisition of suitable assets / development opportunities on the secondary market. •Operation and optimisation of our existing fleet of operational gas and renewable assets. •Assessing project risks and risk management strategies and presenting these to directors and senior team members. •Advising, independently and in conjunction with EPUKI’s senior lawyers and/or external counsel, on both standard form and bespoke contracts. •Helping to ensure that EPUKI’s business, projects and directors comply with all relevant corporate and regulatory requirements. •Working closely with and advising the commercial and financial specialists within the team in negotiations and assisting prompt decision-making among key stakeholders. •Providing proactive legal support to our commercial and operations teams on projects that are in-contract and completed and assist monitoring of on-going performance to enable the business to anticipate issues and manage risks that may arise. •Reviewing or performing legal due diligence where required. •Instructing, liaising with, and working alongside external legal counsel where required, including managing such external legal counsel to ensure that costs are minimised and delivered on budget. •Contributing to the know-how of the team, researching, and presenting research to other legal team members.
Requirements
•advising the project and execution teams on legal and commercial issues and risks arising through the whole lifecycle of renewable and conventional energy projects. •advising on a range of contracts with local and international counterparties related to construction, procurement of assets and services, the commercial operation of our assets, and the sale and hedging of power. •advising on the acquisition of renewable and conventional energy assets, businesses, and development opportunities; and advising on other corporate, commercial and finance transactions within the energy and infrastructure sectors.
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