Associate - Corporate - Future Energy

We are seeking a talented lawyer to join our TLT Corporate Future Energy team in Belfast. This is an exciting opportunity to work on renewables M&A transactions, including advising on disposals and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-operation agreements, and profit share arrangements.

Our Legal 500-ranked national corporate team operates across Birmingham, Bristol, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and London, covering the full UK jurisdiction. The growth of our corporate team has been driven by investment in sector specialism: our lawyers develop expertise aligned with the firm’s key sectors, which include Financial Services, Leisure Food and Drink, Overseas Investment, Future Energy, Retail and Consumer Goods, Digital, and Real Estate.

Within Future Energy, we have over 150 energy lawyers across multiple service lines and UK jurisdictions, making TLT one of the leading legal advisors in this sector. We are proud to be ranked in the top ten most influential law firms in clean energy M&A worldwide (Clean Energy Pipeline’s 2025 Clean Energy Legal League Table) and 4th globally by number of M&A deals, reflecting our position as one of the most active clean energy advisers worldwide.

Your Role

Day to day you will:

• Work as part of a close knit, highly flexible team that is dedicated to working on clean energy M&A transactions
• Support senior members of the team on all aspects of a clean energy M&A transaction including project managing all workstreams and the wider delivery team; assisting and co-ordinating the due diligence process; leading on the drafting and negotiation of all ancillary documentation and supporting the negotiation of the key transaction documents
• Work for a wide variety of clean energy clients operating across a variety of technologies such as wind, solar, battery, AD, hydro, WtE and EVCI amongst others
• Liaise with specialists across TLT’s wider Future Energy Team on all aspects of a project lifecycle.
• Report into Michael Hamill, our Corporate Future Energy Partner in Belfast, and be a valued member of both TLT’s national Corporate team and TLT’s wider Future Energy sector team.

Your Skills and Experience

To be considered for this role, you will be/have:

• A Qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered), 1-4 PQE, with post qualification experience in clean energy M&A deals, ideally gained in a leading city or regional law firm
• A forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines
• Commercially aware with enthusiasm for business development, and an appetite for keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in both your practice area and the wider clean energy sector
• Understand your client’s business needs, and act in the best interest of the firm and the client
• An ambitious and enthusiastic team player, able to support senior fee earners and contribute to our collaborative culture.

Your Team

The TLT corporate team covers the full UK jurisdiction and advises on mid-market transactions often with a national and international profile. Our corporate lawyers have a reputation for providing technically excellent advice combined with commerciality and pragmatism.

We advise on a range of complex corporate transactions and regularly support our private, listed and international corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, group restructurings, management buyouts, joint ventures, strategic investments and associated agreements. One of the largest teams in the firm’s largest practice group, we are supported by a full range of specialist transaction support lawyers including tax, anti-trust, intellectual property, commercial, commercial property, banking and finance, employment and regulatory.

One of our key sector specialisms is Future Energy. Immersed in the sector as its grown, we’ve built an unrivalled track record delivering what our clients need so that they can lead the journey to net zero and a more sustainable future. Our network spans the developers, utilities, funders and - the innovators who are creating change.

TLT has been involved in renewables for over 20 years and is recognised as one of the leading UK law firms in this sector, advising on all aspects of clean energy projects. Clients include SSE, Uniper, Low Carbon, TAGEnergy, Bluefield, NTR, RWE, Capital Dynamics, Lightsource bp, Ecotricity, Thrive Renewables, Santander, Triodos, GRIDSERVE, BayWa, Innova, Downing, Field Energy, Enso/Cero amongst many others.

We are also supported by TLT's FutureLaw team, a multi-disciplinary group of specialists, including lawyers, process designers, technologists, knowledge management experts, data analysts, product and project managers who help to provide our transaction technology and project management resources, in conjunction with our Managed Legal Services team.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.

Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values. We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious for their success.

In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to the success of TLT.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.