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Job Title
Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects Associate
Office Location
London
Working Hours
35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.
Department
Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects
The deals that we cover in our team are broader in scope and more relevant to the real world now than ever before and the market for these skills is broader and deeper than it has been in the 30 years since we did the first pathfinder deals in this area at legacy Hogan Lovells. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects (“IERP”) practice is one of the largest and most diverse in the world, operating out of 18 offices in [***] countries. In recent years, our global team has advised on more than US$250bn of closed infrastructure and project finance deals.
Key Responsibilities
Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.
Technical Ability
<ul>
<li>Possesses good working knowledge and understanding of the legal principles associated with the types of deals outlined above, including a good grounding in company and contract law; proactively develops this knowledge further.</li>
<li>Ability to manage transactions, as appropriate and depending on their complexity, reporting directly to the supervising partner.</li>
<li>Strong project management and organisational skills, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.</li>
<li>Shows awareness of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.</li>
<li>Good problem solving ability, with attention to detail and focus on accuracy.</li>
<li>Appetite to develop use of new legal technology as appropriate for the tasks</li>
</ul>
Team Work and Interpersonal Skills
<ul>
<li>Motivated, reliable and flexible.</li>
<li>Resilient and able to perform effectively under pressure with good time management skills (e.g. meets deadlines and responds to requests in a timely manner).</li>
<li>Has an appreciation of when to seek advice and guidance.</li>
<li>Takes responsibility for project issues (i.e., “owns” the problem, seeks to understand assigned tasks, follows through).</li>
<li>Strong interpersonal skills (internal and client facing), both written and oral.</li>
<li>Ability to work effectively with others in a team.</li>
<li>Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise.</li>
<li>Demonstrates financial awareness – attention to budgets and costs and timely completion of time recording.</li>
<li>Uses appropriate level of effort for the task (e.g., performs the appropriate amount of research based on partner and matter needs); works cost effectively to provide value to meet clients’ needs.</li>
<li>Takes ownership for own career development – proactive in soliciting performance feedback and addressing skills gaps.</li>
</ul>
Client Focus
<ul>
<li>Understands the industry and market in which the clients operate.</li>
<li>Demonstrates commercial awareness – aware of clients' commercial drivers and own role in achieving clients' business goals.</li>
<li>Has good working relationships with clients, appropriate to the level of experience.</li>
<li>Has a good understanding of clients, the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.</li>
<li>Actively works to develop and strengthen new client relationships.</li>
</ul>
Firm Mindedness
<ul>
<li>Takes an active role in managing the firm's reputation both in and out of work.</li>
<li>Understands the responsibility to give back to our communities.</li>
<li>Understands the value of a diverse workforce.</li>
</ul>
Skills &amp; Experience
We are looking for a lawyer with infrastructure, energy, resources and projects experience, ideally 2-4 PQE (or equivalent experience). The successful candidate will work primarily on a wide range of transactional and projects related work (including M&amp;A, structured transactions and equity financings as well as project development) in the infrastructure and energy transition space. Candidates should be at a leading City or US firm. It is essential that the candidate has a strong academic background (minimum 2.1 degree) with excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills, together with the ability to build relationships with clients and co leagues and work well in a team.
Equal Opportunities &amp; Agile Working Statement
It is the policy of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader to provide equal opportun ties for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.
Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects Associate

Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects Associate

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