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Legal Counsel
Location: London, UK
Contract: Permanent
Recruitment: Morson Edge
Morson Edge is recruiting for an experienced Legal Counsel to join a growing organisation operating within the UK carbon capture and storage (CCS) and energy transition sector.
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified legal professional to provide commercially focused legal advice across a broad range of matters, supporting major CCS development activities, regulated operations, infrastructure projects, commercial arrangements and strategic transactions.
The Role
As Legal Counsel, you will provide high-quality, proactive legal support across the development and operation of major CCS activities in the UK.
You will work closely with internal stakeholders, project teams, commercial functions, regulators, partners and external advisers, providing practical legal advice across areas including:
- CCS project development and regulated entity activities.
- Commercial, regulatory, energy and environmental matters.
- Construction and engineering agreements, including EPC contracts.
- Real estate, planning and consenting agreements.
- Agreements with government bodies, CO2 emitters, partners and other stakeholders.
- Financing, investment, acquisition and divestment activities.
- Decommissioning security arrangements and intra-group agreements.
- Confidentiality, transfer and novation agreements.
- Regulatory compliance and governance.
- Company secretarial matters.
- Dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, mediation and expert determination.
- English law advice across relevant UK CCS activities.
- Development and maintenance of effective legal and document management systems.
You will also support internal compliance with company policies, procedures and applicable legal and regulatory requirements, including areas such as anti-corruption, claims reporting, health and safety/environmental compliance and corporate governance. xgikmsk
Key Responsibilities
- Provide commercially minded legal advice across a diverse portfolio of projects and business activities.
- Draft, review and negotiate co Please click on the apply button to read the full job description
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