Trade and Commodities Solicitor

THE FIRM

A leading international firm with an excellent reputation in energy and commodities work.

THE ROLE

• The firm provides transactional trade and commodities advice to commodity traders on a range of types of trade, advising on gas and power contracts; derivatives and netting agreements.

• The trade related practice overlaps with a trade regulatory practice which provides a range of ad hoc regulatory advice. Areas covered are EMIR, MiFID II and a lot of work on the trade sanctions side. The team advises shipping clients on sanctions provisions of their financing documents and energy intensive companies on their emissions/environmental trading rules. It also provides regular anti bribery and corruption reports

• An energy projects practice advising on a range of contracts for energy projects. These include gas supply contracts, power purchase contracts, O&M contracts for power stations and storage contracts for oil and other commodities.

THE PERSON

* 6PQE+ solicitor with strong commodities experience

* Looking to work part time - suggested 3 or 4 days a week

Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience required. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfill this kind of work.