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Job Title

Senior Associate – Construction and Engineering

Department

Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects (IERP)

Office Location

London

Reports To

Group Manager

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms.  Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach.  Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally.  Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects

Hogan Lovells' Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects practice is one of the largest and most diverse in the world, operating out of 18 offices. In recent​ years, our global team has advised on more than US$250 billion of closed infrastructure deals.  The team deals with work across a broad spread of industry sectors for clients ranging from sponsors, funds, commercial, development and multinational lending institutions to governmental bodies.

Our transactional construction and engineering team forms part of the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects practice and advises on projects in a wide range of sectors and geographies, including:

• EPC aspects of UK and international infrastructure projects;
• Non-contentious construction aspects of UK property development transactions, including financing and real estate transactions;
• Nuclear regulatory and projects advice;
• UK defence procurement projects;
• EPC aspect of renewable energy and energy transition projects;
• Petrochemical and Mining projects.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Ability:

• Understanding of legal principles of own practice area, along with a working knowledge of other practice areas
• Has project management responsibility, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards
• Stays aware of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions 

Client Focus

• Has good working relationships with clients
• Has a good understanding of client, the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.
• Actively works to develop and strengthen new client relationships

Team Work and Interpersonal Skills

• Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise
• Has the ability to manage, develop and lead more junior members of a team.
• Has strong relationships and profile amongst senior colleagues
• Ability to work effectively with others whilst also managing and taking responsibility for an individual case load.

Firm Mindedness

• Understands the industry and market in which the practice team and clients operate
• Contributes to the management of the group/practice area by understanding the firm’s capabilities and business plan
• Takes an active role in managing the firm's reputation both in and out of work
• Understands the responsibility to give back to our communities.
• Understands the value of a diverse workforce

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

The Candidate

We are looking for an experienced Construction and Engineering Senior Associate, with a strong focus on transactional and projects work. Ideally their experience will have been gained at a leading City or regional firm. It is essential that the candidate has a strong academic background (minimum 2.1 degree) with excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills, together with the ability to build relationships with clients and colleagues and work well in a team. The ideal candidate will be a senior associate with around six to eight years post-qualification experience (or equivalent experience) and will have experience of managing and independent case load and working as a member of a larger team.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.