Counsel, Trading & Shipping, LNG

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role:

Working as part of the LNG Legal team based in London and operating as part of the wider Global LNG Legal team, you will primarily support the ST&S LNG business in the Atlantic Basin. This involves working closely with the originators, traders, and project managers in London, Houston, Madrid and Brazil, together with other functional partners (incl. Credit, Tax, Operations, Shipping) in a fast-paced commodity trading environment, as well as downstream LNG activities including regas and LNG to power.

What you will deliver:

• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating:

• LNG master trading agreements and related documentation for shorter term physical transactions.
• Complex, high value, bespoke mid and long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements.
• Infrastructure project documentation in respect of downstream LNG projects, including regas capacity agreements, equity participation/JV arrangements, terminal use agreements etc.

What you will need to be successful:

• Qualified to practice in England & Wales.
• Confident application of first-class legal skills and knowledge of legal principles relevant to the distinctive features of the LNG industry.
• Excellent understanding of UK contract law.
• Experience of client counselling and transactional work in an energy trading or project environment.
• Ability to balance risks and rewards to enable appropriate activity to proceed and to manage multiple matters simultaneously.
• Commercial awareness, ability to offer multiple solutions to address risk and to influence business decisions.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills, an ability to work with multiple contributors, and effective management of resources.
• Ability to advise in time-sensitive situations, and to advise on complex, high-value transactions while resisting “deal fever” pressure.

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Travel Requirement: Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills: Business Acumen, Coaching, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Conflict Management, Creativity and Innovation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Influencing, Managing strategic partnerships, Mentoring, Organizational Knowledge, Resource and budget planning, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Relationship Management

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status.