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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; and
• 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 :

Our Environment Team also plays an active role in the firm’s multi-disciplinary Climate and Sustainability Advisory Practice. Our dedicated Environmental lawyers form a key part of this team, which includes specialist lawyers from across the firm, public policy professionals and our sustainability consulting team. As a wholly integrated consulting and legal advisory business, we enable clients to understand sustainability-driven requirements of investors, lenders, and regulators; comply with emerging legal frameworks, international standards and industry best practice; and stay ahead of stakeholder expectations. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside these colleagues as part of a multidisciplinary client team.

The candidate will therefore be part of a national practice and will have exposure to not only pure environment work, but also have the opportunity to work alongside our leading consenting lawyers, as well as the wider firm on climate and sustainability advisory work.

Key Clients include :

Work highlights :

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 focussed approach, who is willing to take responsibility as the main client contact and motivated to supervise and develop junior members of the Environment Team across the full spectrum of their work.

What will we offer you?

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. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability / long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

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