Principal Associate - Construction in Leeds

Our team at Eversheds Sutherland, our transactional Construction & Engineering team sits alongside our disputes colleagues within Litigation. Our construction and engineering lawyers are acknowledged experts when it comes to large scale projects and disputes avoidance and management. We utilise the experience and commercial expertise of our people to ensure deals are delivered on time and problems resolved in a straightforward and commercial manner. Acting for governments, public bodies, major multinational, national and international corporations and contractors, the matters we deal with are often highly significant and complex. As part of one of the largest teams of its kind globally, our people have the support they need to deliver excellence.

Role and key responsibilities:

• Acting for a wide range of national and international clients, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors as well as the traditional built environment.
• Providing strategic and commercial legal advice on major energy, infrastructure and development projects.
• Handling your own matters, managing teams, and developing, supporting, and guiding more junior lawyers within the team.
• Taking a proactive lead in business development and contributing to the strategic direction of the team.
• Working with your colleagues across the national/international team and wider practice and product groups across the firm to help develop growth areas for the team.

Skills and experience:

• 7+ years in non-contentious construction law;
• Strong technical skills gained through working on a broad range of construction and engineering projects, with experience in the NEC, FIDIC and JCT suites of standard form construction and engineering contracts;
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to build rapport with clients and a dedication to providing a first-rate client service both internally and externally;
• A “can-do” attitude, one-team ethos and willingness to go the extra mile to ensure client needs are met;
• A highly organised and strong practical approach with the ability to juggle the demands of a busy workload;
• Exposure to business development and supervising junior fee earners and a keen desire to take an active role in these activities.

What’s in it for you?

We are recruiting a Principal Associate with the ability, aspiration and drive to develop into one of our next partners, and full support will be given towards this goal. We provide benefits focused on looking after you: your development, your performance, your financial future and your health, as well as providing the opportunity to make a contribution to the world. We’re fair, transparent and equitable. We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance. We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working. We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support. We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion. We provide a platform for your career, whatever your ambitions through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programs. We provide experience and opportunity through international and cross-function exposure. We provide an opportunity to give back through our pro-bono work and community engagement. We help you plan ahead through retirement planning, insurance and assurance.