Legal Counsel (Contentious Construction) - Global Energy Co

This is a rare purely contentious in house construction position with a global energy business with head offices in London.

Client Details

Our Client is a global Energy business with UK headquarters in London.

Description

The main responsibility will be to deliver commercially sensible and practical (construction) litigation and dispute resolution advice across the business with an aim of balancing legal risk, driving innovation, reducing external legal spend where appropriate and being viewed as integral to decision making throughout the UK Business and its Divisions.

The Legal Counsel - Dispute Resolution will be managing and resolving disputes of the UK business, on wide ranging issues including, defects, delay and disruption, loss and expense and variations claims, payment disputes (including withholding and final account claims), adjudications under statute and ADR under contractual dispute resolution mechanisms. Excellent knowledge of the suite of construction contracts is imperative and a working knowledge of PFI contracts is desirable.

Requirement to manage external legal counsel, optimising use of resources and negotiating cost effective fee arrangements.

Profile

The successful candidate is likely:

• to have at least 5 years of post qualification experience*
• have experience working on contentious construction matters at either a top 50 ranked law firm, or with the in house legal team of an organisation working within the construction, energy or infrastructural development sectors.

NB: reference to PQE is for guidance only and all levels of PQE will be considered.

Job Offer

Competitive salary + bonus + car