Projects Associate

Role profile

"They are good to deal with and go above

and beyond." - Chambers & Partners

We are looking

for an Associate to join our market-leading Projects team in Bristol. You will

be involved in a variety of infrastructure projects and will be given early

responsibility for building client relationships and undertaking business

development whilst working in a collaborative and supportive team environment.

The practice

Our Projects

team offers clients high-level expertise across the full infrastructure project

lifecycle - from initial project procurement or set-up/acquisition, through

project development, financing, operations and exit. We have been at the

forefront of many of the recent market developments and have an exciting

pipeline of work across a variety of sectors.

Our offering

is broad. The focus of this Bristol based role is predominantly infrastructure

projects (including PPP) and public sector contracts.

• In

terms of infrastructure PPP projects, we operate in a wide variety of

sectors including student accommodation, healthcare, education, defence

and transport. We act for equity investors/sponsors, FM contractors,

building contractors and lenders.

• As

a team, we are also involved in public sector contracts. This spans

defence, telecoms/broadband, energy efficiency/decentralised energy

projects, facilities management, public sector IT and cloud, and wider

public sector outsourcing. We regularly work with defence and wider GCA

standard terms (including DEFCONs, framework agreements and call-off

contracts). We act for a number of global tech businesses and defence

prime contractors.

The team

The Projects

team is split between Bristol and London with 9 Partners; 1 Legal Director, 5

Associate Directors; 4 Associates; 9 Associates, 6 Trainee Solicitors and 1

Solicitor Apprentice. You will have the opportunity to work directly with

a number of Partners in the team who are leaders in their field.

The work

Recent work

undertaken by our Projects team includes:

• Acting

for the Viridis Living consortium (Equitix and Graham) on the University

of Manchester's Fallowfield campus PPP project.

• Acting

for the successful Hochtief PPP/Plenary consortium on the contract to

design, build, finance, and operate a 700 bed student village for

University of Staffordshire.

• Acting

for the successful Acorn consortium (formed of Kajima Partnerships, Sacyr,

Aberdeen and Development Bank of Wales) on the Velindre Cancer Centre

"Mutual Investment Model" PPP project.

• Acting

for BT/EE on the ground-breaking Home Office Emergency Services Network

Project Contract project to provide a next generation communication system

for the three emergency services (police, fire and rescue, and ambulance)

and other public safety users.

• Acting

on over 60 closed PFI/PPP projects across a range of sectors. For example,

we are acting for a number of investors on construction and/or commercial

disputes affecting UK social infrastructure PFI projects and on market

testing issues particularly in healthcare projects.

• Acting

for bidders on MOD procurements, including the £1.5bn Type 31e frigate

design and build contract, and the £1.5bn contract for the provision of

training services to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

• Acting

for one of three bidders to provide supercomputers and specialist storage

to the Met Office for weather and climate modelling/forecasting. The

assets and key supporting digital infrastructure are deemed to be critical

national infrastructure and are to be provided on an availability basis

over a 10 year operational term.

Technical

skills and experience

We are interested

in hearing from candidates with experience of infrastructure PPP projects

and/or public sector transactions. As a guide, due to the nature of the work

and the structure of the team, we are ideally looking to appoint an Associate

with a passion for these areas, although we will consider candidates with more

or less experience.

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; and

• reward for your contribution, progression

and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

Salary and

benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

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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