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Join the legal forefront of the clean energy revolution with Field's dynamic legal team.
Overview
Salary
£87000 - £97000
Location
Field, Fora Montacute Yards
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Organization Summary:
Field is a trailblazing company in the renewable infrastructure sector, focused on building, owning, and operating battery energy storage systems (BESS) across Europe. With a £200 million investment boost, Field is poised for international growth and is looking for passionate individuals to join their eclectic team. Work alongside experienced professionals from varied backgrounds in a mission-driven environment to advance the viability of batteries as part of our future energy infrastructure.
- Support the expansion of BESS projects in the UK and Europe.
- Collaborate with a small, specialized in-house legal team.
- Lead negotiations and close land contracts for BESS development.
- Partner with origination, acquisition, and development teams to drive contract negotiations.
- Conduct land due diligence, maintain legal templates, and support the acquisition process.
- Manage a diverse workload of in-house legal tasks.
- Minimum of 2 years' PQE in a law firm's renewables real estate team or in-house at a renewables developer.
- Experience with options to lease in England and Wales for renewables developers.
- Preferably dual qualified with experience in Scotland.
- Proficient in land registry and Scotlis.
- Competence in legal due diligence for acquisitions.
- Salary: £87,000 - £97,000, based in London.
- Employee share scheme, enhanced parental leave, company-wide bonuses, and hybrid working.
- Nest pension, generous holiday allowance, learning & development budget.
- Work-from-anywhere policy, mental health support, and a dog-friendly office.
Legal Counsel
Department: Legal
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UK - London
Compensation: £87,000 - £97,000 / year
Description
A bit about Field
Field is an international builder, owner, operator, of renewable infrastructure. Our Founder and CEO is a successful entrepreneur who previously co-founded a green energy supplier. We have robust pipelines of BESS projects across the UK, Italy, Spain, and Germany - and strong financial backing. Our most recent fundraise was a £200 million investment from DIF Capital Partners. This will support our mission to grow internationally, and ultimately to build and develop a robust global BESS portfolio.
We are an eclectic team with varied backgrounds. Our team has experience scaling billion dollar tech start-ups and building energy companies, as well as deep specialisms in the energy markets. You will learn from and work with a bunch of fun, curious, and entrepreneurial people who really want to make an impact. Together, we will show that batteries are a totally viable part of our energy infrastructure - now, not in some distant future. We have ambitious plans to become the defining new clean energy player in Europe over the next few years, gradually expanding beyond batteries into new asset types.
Your Mission
Field’s legal team is growing to keep pace with the company’s rapidly increasing need for legal support as it acquires and develops battery energy storage projects in the UK and in Europe.
You’ll be joining a team of three busy in-house lawyers. We have some specialisms between us, and need another lawyer to complement the team with real estate skills to own the negotiation of the hundreds of BESS land contracts that we need to acquire in order to develop sites in England, Wales and Scotland (and overseas).
You will be an essential partner to Field’s origination, acquisition and development teams, driving Field’s contract negotiations with enthusiasm and a desire to close them quickly.
We are growing rapidly and so will your responsibilities, so this is by no means an exhaustive list. There will always be room to grow and learn into a well rounded in-house counsel.
Key Responsibilities
This is a role with the opportunity to have massive impact. Key responsibilities including:
- Draft, negotiate and complete greenfield battery storage options to lease and purchase (England and Wales, Scotland
- You’ll be responsible for closing these as quickly as possible, working with internal stakeholders and (where appropriate) external lawyers.
- Undertake land due diligence (title, searches, CPSEs etc) - able to confidently navigate Land Registry, Scotlis and an AI due diligence tool called Avail.
- Maintain a best in class suite of land templates and playbooks.
- Draft and negotiate easements, wayleaves, grid disturbance agreements and licences.
- Support the acquisition process by leading legal due diligence; you’ll be the expert in real estate diligence.
- A really mixed bag of in-house work - NDAs, commercial contracts, company secretarial work, supporting senior lawyers on more complex matters; that kind of thing.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
A bit about you
- You are keen to lead contract negotiations on land deals, and close them out very quickly
- You take pride in the quality of your work, and enjoy balancing the need for speed and attention to detail/accuracy
- You’re a clear and impactful communicator, able to turn complex legal issues into pragmatic and commercial legal solutions
- You thrive in a fast paced, cross-team environment; you’re a trusted team player
- You’re very organised - you’ll be spinning a number of plates at once, so you’ll need to have tried and tested methods for keeping on top of a varied workload at your fingertips
- You can effectively project manage internal and external stakeholders on due diligence, greenfield transactions and acquisitions.
The skills you’ll need
- At least 2 years’ PQE in a nationally recognised law firm’s renewables real estate team or in-house at a renewables developer
- Experience of negotiating options to lease in England and Wales for renewables developers
- Ideally, you’re dual qualified with experience of negotiating renewable land deals in Scotland
- Land registry and Scotlis experience
- Experience of working on acquisition support e.g. legal due diligence
Benefits
Package Details
Salary: £87,000 - £97,000
Location: London
We’re offering a competitive compensation package, including participation in our employee share scheme which rewards all employees for the growth of the business.
Other benefits include
- Enhanced parental leave, for all new parents:
- 6 months fully paid primary carer leave
- 3 months fully paid secondary carer leave
- 10 days fully paid leave for fertility treatment
- Up to 10% company wide bonus based on company performance
- Hybrid working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
- Nest pension (8% combined contributions) on qualifying earnings
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- £2,000 annual learning & development budget to spend on whatever best supports your growth
- 1 month a year ‘work from anywhere in the world’ policy
- Spill: our mental health benefit allowing every Fielder access to equal and unrestricted therapy and resources
- Green leave: paid time off to do something good for the environment
- Fun co-working office space in Shoreditch, London
- Dog friendly office (with some regular furry friends already in the team)
- Free team lunch once a week
- Regular team socials
- Birthday carbon offset: a gift from Field to the world to celebrate your birthday
- & many more on the way!
