Senior Legal Counsel Transactions
Posted 23 hours 17 minutes ago by RWE AG
Take the chance, become a Senior Legal Counsel for Corporate & Transactions Law and grow together with us in an international environment. Provide legal support for joint venture and M&A transactions, project finance as well as for corporate law matters with a focus on Offshore Wind projects.
- Act as one of the key legal advisors for international offshore wind transactions, with a particular focus on joint ventures, M&A transactions and project finance, as well as on the management of related corporate matters.
- Advise and support the business in drafting, reviewing and negotiating all relevant transaction documentation.
- Work across RWE's international Offshore Wind business, collaborating closely with colleagues in the global Offshore Legal Team and engaging with other business functions to provide a holistic, streamlined legal service.
- Manage complex organizational and coordination tasks, including process optimization, and exercise independent professional judgement, particularly in relation to project finance, asset/share acquisitions, due diligence, JV services and ongoing joint venture management.
- Advise the business on day to day legal matters, including financing topics, operation and governance of joint venture partnerships, and post acquisition integration.
- Coordinate and supervise external legal advisors where required, ensuring high quality and cost efficient legal support.
- Support and manage dispute related matters, including liaising with external counsel in pre litigation and dispute resolution processes.
- Qualified as solicitor in the UK (or a similar common law jurisdiction and registered as a foreign lawyer)
- Several years of relevant working experience in joint ventures and M&A transactions, project finance as well as corporate law in an international law firm or company, with a focus on renewables (and ideally Offshore Wind) matters
- Comfortable with handling multiple tasks, taking on new responsibilities and setting task priorities in a deadline intensive environment
- Good commercial, technical and strategic understanding and analytical skills
- Solution oriented mindset which allows you to find the right legal and business solutions also in complex scenarios
- Strong customer orientation and established negotiation skills
- High level of engagement and flexibility; work and communicate professionally and accurately in a time sensitive setting
- Experience in employing (legal) AI tools in daily work and driving AI use cases for transactions
- Enjoy working in an international team and are open for occasional travel
- Capability of conducting negotiations in a further EU language
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