Senior Legal Counsel (M&A & Offtake Arrangements)

Join Zenobē, a leading energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure company, as a Senior Legal Counsel. In this role, you will support and lead on specified legal matters, including power tolling contracts and M&A related issues. You will provide commercially focused legal advice, manage external legal counsel, and mentor junior team members. This is a great opportunity for an ambitious individual to join a growing organization and legal team.

• Leading the legal team’s input on power tolling contracts and M&A related matters, and confidently advising the business on legal and commercial risks associated with corporate development activities.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex tolling agreements, sale and purchase agreements, and other transaction-related documents, while managing external legal counsel.
• Mentoring and leading more junior members of the team, delivering training to internal teams, and managing one or more members of the legal team as a direct report.
• Senior Legal Counsel with expertise in complex energy transactions, tolling agreements, M&A and corporate development
• Skilled in negotiation, risk management and stakeholder engagement
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent legal drafting skills
• An understanding of the energy regulatory environment and experience in the energy sector would be a strong advantage
• Excellent organisational skills, able to multi-task, meet deadlines and juggle competing demands
• Sound commercial judgment with an ability to prioritise effectively
• Experienced contract negotiator with commercial awareness
• Able to thrive in a very fast-paced environment with large amounts of responsibility and ownership
• At least 10 years PQE having trained and qualified at a good regional, national or international law firm
• Attention to detail and able to produce work of consistently high quality
• Able to establish rapport and build strong trust-based relationships
• A strong team player able to work on own initiative
• Strong Generalist transaction lawyer with experience in power tolling/offtake arrangements, M&A and project finance experience
• Ideally someone who possesses inhouse experience
• We realise that certain groups of people are less likely to apply for a role if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. To be absolutely clear: if you like the look of this job and think you could do it well, we encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience
• Above all, Zenobē is looking for collaborative, flexible, empathetic people who are interested in creating and promoting practical routes to a zero-carbon world