Senior Associate - Planning - #1698041

Job Description

Senior Associate – E&I Planning 6+ PQE

Location: London, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester

Contract: Permanent

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a senior Consenting Lawyer to join our market leading Planning & Environment, Energy & Infrastructure team. We are ideally looking to recruit a candidate with upwards of 6 years’ post qualification experience with a focus on the Planning Act 2008, the Transport and Works Act 1992, the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, compulsory acquisition/purchase, EIA/HRA, inquiries/examinations and judicial review. The successful candidate will work predominantly in our Energy & Infrastructure consenting team.

What our Planning & Environment team is known for:

We are the largest planning team in the UK with specialists covering a wide range of major projects across the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors. Within our team, we have lawyers who predominantly work in each of the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors. We are looking for candidates who have the experience and would like to work alongside these lawyers.

Our Energy & Infrastructure consenting specialists are advising on some of the country’s most high profile projects, covering all forms of energy, such as offshore wind, utility scale solar, carbon capture & storage, nuclear, energy networks and pipelines, and infrastructure, such as water, airports, ports, roads, rail, and rapid transit systems. Key clients in these sectors include;

• Orsted
• EDF
• bp
• Drax Power
• National Highways
• Transport for London
• Heathrow Airport
• Southern Water
  
  
  

Work highlights include:

• Advising Orsted on its Development Consent Orders for Hornsea Offshore Wind Farms Projects 3 and 4;
• Advising on the largest utility scale solar and battery farm Development Consent Order;
• Advising on the country’s leading carbon capture & storage projects for BP, VPI, Drax and Cory;
• Securing planning permission for Southampton Airport’s runway extension and successfully defending the permission in the High Court;
• Advising National Highways on the successful DCO application for the £1.9bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme (the Stonehenge Tunnel).
  
  
  

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience with a large regional or national practice. They will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality. Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about, and demonstrate a track record of, business development. They will be a team player with a strong client focussed approach.

Lawyers joining this friendly and dynamic team will encounter a broad range of work, acting for a range of high profile clients on large and nationally significant projects. Whilst the successful candidate will sit within our Property Group, they will have close links to our Energy and Infrastructure Sectors.

About The Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

What will we offer you?

• We are a market leading, dynamic and growing team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first class training and career development programme, monthly 1-2-1s, career discussions and biannual appraisals. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver the highest quality of services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.
  
  
  

Awards

We’re being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT’s most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters’ leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen Wallington who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anwen-wallington-36177ba1/

[email protected]

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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