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Job Description

Senior Knowledge Lawyer - Project Finance

Job Location

London

Practice Group/Department

Knowledge

Role

Business Services

Job Title

Senior Knowledge Lawyer - Project Finance

Work Type

Full Time

Description

We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide.

Our London office is currently recruiting for Senior Knowledge Lawyer. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we're building a culture where difference is valued.

The Role

We are recruiting a Senior Knowledge Lawyer to support the EINR and Projects groups. The focus of the role will be project finance, project contracts, power, renewables and decarbonisation of heat, industry and transport.

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting material for external or internal publications and identifying topics of interest and likely candidates for articles
• Carrying out analysis of latest developments in the areas of focus of the role and ensuring dissemination of knowledge, internally and externally
• Providing knowledge support to business development initiatives, including supporting client campaigns and initiatives
• Advising lawyers and discussing the legal issues which they face in their transactions and matters (including structuring advice), and providing assistance to lawyers in their research
• Maintaining existing precedents and drafting new precedents, especially in those areas which are document intensive
• Maintaining existing practice notes, drafting new practice notes and assisting in their drafting
• Planning, organising, preparing and delivering legal and industry focused training to trainees, fee-earners and clients
• Supporting strategy and business group meetings and taking an active role in supporting the activities of those groups
• Promoting the use of and keeping up to date systems for knowledge collection and dissemination (research notes, transactional documents / bibles, training material etc.)
• Supporting the delivery of the central knowledge strategy, including relevant departmental and pillar strategies
• Managing and implementing the relevant team Knowledge Plan(s) and the Knowledge Investment Hours policy

Skills and Experience Required

• Qualified lawyer with significant legal experience in project finance
• Project finance and project contract negotiation experience required
• Experience in drafting in plain language and in English
• Experience in designing and delivering successful, interesting and innovative training programmes, targeted at the audience
• Ability to work with a variety of personalities across all levels of the organisation
• Experience in or interest in the collation, storage and delivery of knowledge
• Project management experience and demonstrated creativity in problem solving
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent legal research skills

Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offer range of competitive benefits including:

• 25 days hols + Bank hols - Buy up to 5 days
• GP Service
• Bupa Healthcare
• Pension
• Flexible working

In addition, we are proud of our established health and wellbeing programme which supports our employees through mental, physical and lifestyle challenges.

Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to promoting a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace where everyone can realise their full potential and career ambitions on the basis of merit and skill. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks. Find more about Diversity and Inclusion here.

Norton Rose Fulbright is an equal opportunities employer. We will make reasonable adjustments to our application process to ensure that you have the best chance of success. We understand that there's not a "one size fits all" approach to adjustments so our team will work with you individually to understand more about your requirements. Please contact our Recruitment team on EMEARecruitment@nortonrosefulbright.com

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