Senior Associate, Construction in Manchester

We are Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm, with more than 5,000 people across over 30 countries. We’re full‑service with deep niche and sector experience. Our team, with over 500 experienced lawyers, is one of the top ten largest Litigation practices in the world. Our global Litigation team has led clients through some of the most complex disputes and challenging regulatory investigations around the world.

At Eversheds Sutherland, our Construction & Engineering disputes team sits within this Litigation practice. We are acknowledged experts when it comes to large scale projects and disputes avoidance and management. We utilise our experience and commercial expertise to ensure deals are delivered on time and problems resolved in a straightforward and commercial manner. Where disputes are unavoidable, we employ our vast experience in adjudication, litigation and arbitration to achieve great results and often surpass client expectations.

We predominantly act for the higher end of the supply chain: governments, public bodies, major multinational, national and international corporations, and contractors. The matters we deal with are not ‘business as usual’ but highly significant, valuable, and complex.

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, and the avoidance/resolution of disputes arising on such projects.
• Handling your own matters, managing teams, and developing, supporting, and guiding the 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

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with 6 years’ post qualification experience.
• Significant experience of dealing with contentious construction matters.
• Excellent technical skills gained through working on a broad range of construction and engineering projects and disputes.
• Ability to interpret and apply construction and engineering contracts with practical and beneficial effect.
• Understanding complex legal arguments and subtle interpretation differences and explaining the law clearly and concisely.
• Devising strategies for the avoidance/resolution of disputes arising on construction and engineering projects, taking into account the client’s overall strategy for the project.
• Effectively and strategically guiding unavoidable disputes through a variety of dispute resolution procedures.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re fair, transparent and equitable.
• 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 provide a platform for your career through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programmes.
• We provide experience and opportunity through international and cross‑function exposure.
• We help you plan ahead through retirement planning, insurance and assurance.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, “Inclusive” is a core business value. We bring together different skillsets, global mindsets and approaches. We foster diversity of thought and the freedom to put ideas into action. We have an inherent respect for the individual and a strong belief in collaboration and teamwork.