Environment Senior Associate - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Pinsent Masons

Pinsent Masons

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Environment Senior Associate 7+ PQE

Location:
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham

Contract Type:
Permanent

Brief

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a broad range of environmental and regulatory matters (both contentious and non-contentious) across the UK and be part of a national team with senior top ranked specialists.

What our Environment team is known for:

Our environment practice sits without our market leading Planning & Environment team, which is the largest dedicated planning and environment team in the UK with specialists involved in a wide range of major projects across the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors.

Our Environment Team covers the full range of environmental law

This includes:
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Regulatory advice e.g. advising on remediation liability, nuclear regulation, water licensing, waste management, environmental permitting, extended producer responsibility, F-Gas, WEEE etc.;
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Transactional advice e.g. providing support to our corporate, restructuring, property, projects and finance teams on transactional environmental issues, e.g. contaminated land liability, asbestos management, permit transfer;
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Regulatory enforcement e.g. assisting clients with regulatory investigations; responding to civil penalty notices; and advising on the civil sanction enforcement powers employed by SEPA and the EA;
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Net zero, carbon, biodiversity and natural capital advice , including nature-based solutions, offsetting, and EU /UK ETS compliance; and
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Environmental aspects of major infrastructure consenting and development , including onshore & offshore renewables, carbon capture & storage, new water resources, and climate change resilience projects.

Key Clients include:

- bp

Drax Power Limited
Balfour Beatty
E.ON
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Viridor
FCC
ENVA
Motor Fuel Group
Heidelberg

Work highlights:

Advising bp on the environmental aspects of its flagship Net Zero Teesside CCUS DCO project and its flagship Hydrogen Projects in Scotland and England.
Advising Motor Fuel Group on the environmental aspects of its acquisition of 337 petrol forecourts form Morrisons.
Advising Regenerate Outcomes on the bespoke suite of contractual documentation required for a multilandowner regenerative farming project, which is designed to increase land condition and generate natural capital outcomes (including verified carbon credits and biodiversity net gain units).
Advising national house builders, energy and infrastructure developers, manufacturers, Local Authorities and landowners on a range of environmental issues arising from the acquisition and sale of greenfield and brownfield sites, including advising on detailed contaminated land risk allocations/ deeds of indemnity; arranging environmental insurance in respect of onsite contamination and offsite migration; and drafting internal policy guidelines that form part of a residential developer's site approval process.
Acting for Drax Power Limited on its Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) project.
Advising developers, contractors and landowners on environmental enforcement, litigation and civil sanction risk in respect of alleged pollution incidents and environmental permit breach occurring during construction, engineering and operational activities.

What will we offer you?

We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
We invest in our team and have a firstclass training and career development programme, monthly 121s, biannual career discussions and annual appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver "best of class" services.
Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

_Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen Wallington who can discuss the roles and requirements. _

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