Legal Counsel - Corporate

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant. The successful candidate will have circa. 3-5 years of experience gained in a mixture of private practice and in-house, with a focus on corporate law, preferably in the infrastructure sector. A proven track record of advising on legal matters across a range of jurisdictions is a distinct advantage. You will need to have excellent drafting, cooperation, communication and negotiation skills. You will be a person who can manage their own workload and is self-reliant, but is equipped with excellent teamworking and interpersonal skills as you'll be advising key stakeholders on significant projects that shape the communities in which we live. Job Description - Manage corporate transactions (including JV set up, share sale, asset sale) and drafting transactional documents (including SPA, Transition Services Agreement, Continuing Services Agreement, SHA and Asset Transfer Agreement) and assist with the post M&A integration alongside the finance and strategy teams - Advise Mott MacDonald Ventures for their venture investments in start-ups (in energy and infra-tech) including the selection process, DD, negotiation, signing, closing and post-M&A integration - Managing trainees for their corporate seat as part of their Training Contract and a team of junior lawyers on corporate work - Standardisation of amendment requests to industry standard forms (e.g. NEC, JCT and FIDIC) and standard forms of major clients in the energy and infra sector (e.g. SSE, EBRD, IFC, Network Rail, UK Power Networks) - Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including consultancy agreements, framework agreements and NDAs - Review and identify departures from our governance as part of the review of such commercial agreements and assist project teams in obtaining the necessary internal approvals where appropriate - Undertaking internal compliance audits to identify deficiencies in the governance procedure - Confidently advise business on applicable laws, jurisdictions and regulations - Revise and maintain legal templates for use across the Group ensuring they reflect current best practice and legislation - Instructing and managing external law firms - Draft and update legal guidance to raise awareness of recurrent topics and new regulations

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.