Legal Counsel - Energy firm
3 days ago
Gloucester
Legal Counsel Renewable Energy firm £45K - £55K Based near Gloucester The role • Reviewing customer and supplier T&Cs and related documents and reporting your findings, making changes to protect the Group’s interests, • Drafting and reviewing a wide range of contracts including consultancy arrangements, contracts for products and services, and partnership/endorsement contracts, and negotiating these with counterparties, • Supporting the procurement of business-critical IT systems, • Advising the wholesale energy trading team on agreements for the purchase of renewable energy and our business sales team on energy sales and intermediary agreements, • Reviewing contracts through the project life cycle for sun parks, wind farms and battery storage systems – pre-works and FEED agreements, EPC, and operation and maintenance agreements, as well as power purchase agreements, • Helping to resolve complex queries and disputes, and drafting letters of claim, • Helping to compile evidence for court proceedings, • Assisting the enforcement team with the recovery of debt, • Instructing and managing external counsel, • Property portfolio support for renewable energy assets and developments, • Overseeing the group’s intellectual property portfolio, • Registering trademarks and overseeing renewals, • Collating information for patent applications Requirements • Qualified solicitor (or CILEX lawyer), • Commercial experience gained from a law firm or in-house