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Senior Knowledge Lawyer - Project Finance

Geplaatst 25 mrt. 2024
Werkervaring
2 tot 4 jaar
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Functie
Soort opleiding
Taalvereiste
Engels (Vloeiend)

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We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide.

Our London office is currently recruiting for Senior Knowledge Lawyer. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we're building a culture where difference is valued.

The Role

We are recruiting a Senior Knowledge Lawyer to support the EINR and Projects groups. The focus of the role will be project finance, project contracts, power, renewables and decarbonisation of heat, industry and transport.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drafting material for external or internal publications and identifying topics of interest and likely candidates for articles
  • Carrying out analysis of latest developments in the areas of focus of the role and ensuring dissemination of knowledge, internally and externally
  • Providing knowledge support to business development initiatives, including supporting client campaigns and initiatives
  • Advising lawyers and discussing the legal issues which they face in their transactions and matters (including structuring advice), and providing assistance to lawyers in their research
  • Maintaining existing precedents and drafting new precedents, especially in those areas which are document intensive
  • Maintaining existing practice notes, drafting new practice notes and assisting in their drafting
  • Planning, organising, preparing and delivering legal and industry focused training to trainees, fee-earners and clients
  • Supporting strategy and business group meetings and taking an active role in supporting the activities of those groups
  • Promoting the use of and keeping up to date systems for knowledge collection and dissemination (research notes, transactional documents / bibles, training material etc.)
  • Supporting the delivery of the central knowledge strategy, including relevant departmental and pillar strategies
  • Managing and implementing the relevant team Knowledge Plan(s) and the Knowledge Investment Hours policy

Skills and Experience Required

  • Qualified lawyer with significant legal experience in project finance
  • Project finance and project contract negotiation experience required
  • Experience in drafting in plain language and in English
  • Experience in designing and delivering successful, interesting and innovative training programmes, targeted at the audience
  • Ability to work with a variety of personalities across all levels of the organisation
  • Experience in or interest in the collation, storage and delivery of knowledge
  • Project management experience and demonstrated creativity in problem solving
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Excellent legal research skills

Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offer range of competitive benefits including:

  • 25 days hols + Bank hols - Buy up to 5 days
  • GP Service
  • Bupa Healthcare
  • Pension
  • Flexible working

We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4,000 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.
Recognised for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and…


We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4,000 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Recognised for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.

Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

Our London office delivers domestic and multi-jurisdictional legal services to corporates, financial institutions, governments and other public sector organisations. We excel across a range of legal practices, including corporate, M&A and securities; banking and finance; dispute resolution and litigation; real estate; antitrust and competition; tax; employment and labor; intellectual property; regulation and investigations; and risk advisory. We also advise on US law, and we have a worldleading Islamic finance practice. We are particularly well-known for our focus on industry sectors and are strong in financial institutions, including insurance; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.

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London
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