Real Estate Senior Associate Director

Role profile

"a strong

multidisciplinary team that is a go-to for large and complex

transactions."- Chambers & Partners

We have an

exciting opportunity for an experienced senior lawyer to join our UK Real

Estate team, focussing on matters within our Energy & Energy Transition

("EET") sector. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing

team and advise on high value, strategically important projects within a

supportive and collegiate environment.

Our energy and

utilities practice

We are widely

acknowledged as the leading adviser on the move to a decentralised and

decarbonised energy industry and adoption of innovative energy solutions and

have adopted decarbonisation as one of the themes underpinning the firm's

Transformational strategy. As well as advising our clients within this space,

we are also helping major corporates meet their net zero commitments from an

energy perspective.

Our Real

Estate energy team focuses on acting for institutional investors, funders in

and developers of renewables and energy innovation projects. We have extensive

experience in providing real estate advice to our high profile clients on an

extensive variety of energy projects, including solar, wind, battery storage,

energy from waste and hydro power. Our practice is growing rapidly and we are

growing our real estate team to support strong client demand.

Our Real

Estate utilities team works with English and Welsh utility companies, including

those in the electricity, water and gas industries, on a wide variety of work

including all land rights and consenting matters. Both contentious and

non-contentious. The team also work with clients on large scale compulsory

schemes - both CPO and DCO led.

Osborne

Clarke's wider real estate team acts on a comprehensive range of high value and

complex investment, development and other transactional matters, including

corporate structured deals, joint ventures and financings. The team works day to

day alongside our construction, real estate disputes, planning, corporate and

funds and finance teams.

The team

Our Real

Estate team is based across Bristol, Reading and London and is made up of over

100 Fee-earners, including 22 partners.

We are looking

to recruit a Real Estate lawyer with experience in either energy or utilities.

Our Real Estate energy and utilities team is led by Partners, Charlotte Walker

(energy) and Jonathan Mills (utilities). You will work closely with Charlotte

and/or Jonathan (depending on the matter in hand) and also have the opportunity

to work with the head of our UK EET sector, Matt Lewis (Partner) alongside

several other Partners and senior lawyers with a focus on large-scale transactions

across the EETsector. There will also be plenty of scope to work with

colleagues across different service lines, given the nature of the work.

The work

Recent work

examples include:

• Advised

long standing client and leading independent infrastructure and private

equity investment manager, Foresight, on an £80 million investment by two

of its funds into a portfolio of biomethane Compressed Natural Gas

refuelling stations for HGVs, which will enable fleets to switch from

diesel to carbon-neutral fuel.

• Advised

Foresight Solar on the £245m debt refinancing of a portfolio of 28 UK

solar assets.

• We

represented Aberdeen Standard Investments on the £105m refinancing of

Albion Capital's Albion Community Power UK-based renewable energy

portfolio.

• We

acted for The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) on its acquisition of

the Neilston Wind Farm and InfraRed Capital Partners Limited in its

acquisition, development and subsequent sale of the 50MW Afton Wind Farm.

• Advised

specialist asset manager Gresham House on its acquisition of a 50MW solar

farm from Anesco as part of a £100 million partnership. Gresham House and

Anesco signed a three-year development and construction agreement back in

January, which will see them develop a 200MW ground mounted solar PV

portfolio in the UK.

• We

advised Green Frog Power on the refinancing with Macquarie and buy-out of

their 214MW STOR operations and InfraRed on the sale of the Viridis 230MW

CM-backed gas-peaking portfolio.

• Advised

National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) on the DCO for the

connection to RWE's Brechfa Windfarm. The project included the consenting

of the electricity line and compulsory purchase of 32km of overhead and

underground 132kV. It includes acquisition on land rights from the Crown

on tidal waters across the Towy River.

• Advised

on the Bicester to East Claydon Connection Project as sole advisor to

Southern Electric Power Distribution (SEPD) on its first schedule 3

Electricity Act CPO. OC provided full-service support, including land

rights and compulsory purchase strategy.

• SEPD
• Project 500: sole adviser on a distribution network reinforcement

project, securing voluntary arrangements with approximately 500

landowners.

• Advised

Ecotricity on the successful promotion of the Heckington Fen Solar Park

Order 2025 (a c.500MW solar farm DCO with 400MW of energy storage, 400kV

9km cable route, and NGET extension), including all aspects of the

environmental impacts and grid connection options in Lincolnshire

including interactions and commercial arrangements with Triton Knoll OFTO

and Viking Link Interconnector.

• Advising

NGED on acquisition and development strategy for various primary

substation developments required to facilitate the HS2 Project. This included advising on the scope of HS2's powers,

negotiating the terms of the relevant GVDs, advising NGED on permission

requirements, including relevant environmental permissions, assisting with

the appeal of a planning refusal and assisting in the acquisition of land

rights required.

• Acting

for NGED and advising on all aspects of the HS2 Hybrid Acts, including

negotiating the design and construction agreement, drafting precedent GVDs

used in the project, assisting in the project management of all required

diversions and new connections, settling disputes around NRSWA, addressing

landowner claims and disputes, including those escalated to MPs, assisting

in the external comms strategy for the project, securing land rights for

the project and resolving day to day project management issues with HS2

and the DfT.

Technical

skills and experience

You will have

gained experience within a well-respected Real Estate practice and be able to

demonstrate a range of knowledge and experience of energy or utilities

projects.

Due to the

structure of the team and fast growth of our EET sector, we are looking to

appoint a Senior Associate or Associate Director with a passion for this area.

Your career

development

Like all our

lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development

programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• Clear expectations of your role and what

it takes to progress

• High quality clients and work, with early

responsibility and client exposure

• Thorough assessment and individual

feedback from a range of experienced colleagues

• Robust technical training with early

skills based development, increasingly tailored to you

• Reward for your contribution, progression

and potential, rather than PQE or tenure

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins on angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

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