Legal Counsel - Commercial Contracts (Energy Industry)

Role Summary:

The successful candidate will provide legal advice and guidance to the subsidiary and affiliate companies of our client based largely throughout Europe, to engender a culture of partnership between the legal team and the businesses, whereby the legal team is commercially focused and is regarded as a trusted adviser, providing pragmatic and commercially astute solutions to enable business plans and to develop a culture where risk is understood and balanced with reward rather than avoided.

Key Accountabilities:

• Providing responsive, pragmatic, commercially astute legal advice and assistance to members of the management team, and their reports cascading down.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiation of contracts for the Group's offices and subsidiary companies world-wide.
• Providing advice on various legal issues, especially those related to contracts.
• Advising on and implementing risk-management policy.
• Supporting and enforcing corporate policies.
• Assisting internal clients in avoiding undesirable legal consequences.

Required Experience/Qualifications:

• UK qualified solicitor
• Proven commercial law experience ideally with in-house experience in a similar business environment (oil & gas or marine ideal.)
• Good working knowledge of contract law essential with experience in employment, competition, intellectual property and general commercial law also desirable.
• Extensive negotiating experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Self-motivated and self-disciplined.
• To work under pressure and to be client focused.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent time-management and organization skills.
• Flexible, adaptive, and innovative.

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