"They are good to deal with and go above
and beyond." – Chambers & Partners
We are looking
for an Associate to join our market-leading Projects team in Bristol. You will
be involved in a variety of infrastructure projects and will be given early
responsibility for building client relationships and undertaking business
development whilst working in a collaborative and supportive team environment.
The practice
Our Projects
team offers clients high-level expertise across the full infrastructure project
lifecycle - from initial project procurement or set-up/acquisition, through
project development, financing, operations and exit. We have been at the
forefront of many of the recent market developments and have an exciting
pipeline of work across a variety of sectors.
Our offering
is broad. The focus of this Bristol based role is predominantly infrastructure
projects (including PPP) and public sector contracts.
- In
terms of infrastructure PPP projects, we operate in a wide variety of
sectors including student accommodation, healthcare, education, defence
and transport. We act for equity investors/sponsors, FM contractors,
building contractors and lenders.
- As
a team, we are also involved in public sector contracts. This spans
defence, telecoms/broadband, energy efficiency/decentralised energy
projects, facilities management, public sector IT and cloud, and wider
public sector outsourcing. We regularly work with defence and wider GCA
standard terms (including DEFCONs, framework agreements and call-off
contracts). We act for a number of global tech businesses and defence
prime contractors.
The team
The Projects
team is split between Bristol and London with 9 Partners; 1 Legal Director, 5
Associate Directors; 4 Associates; 9 Associates, 6 Trainee Solicitors and 1
Solicitor Apprentice. You will have the opportunity to work directly with
a number of Partners in the team who are leaders in their field.
The work
Recent work
undertaken by our Projects team includes:
- Acting
for the Viridis Living consortium (Equitix and Graham) on the University
of Manchester's Fallowfield campus PPP project.
- Acting
for the successful Hochtief PPP/Plenary consortium on the contract to
design, build, finance, and operate a 700 bed student village for
University of Staffordshire.
- Acting
for the successful Acorn consortium (formed of Kajima Partnerships, Sacyr,
Aberdeen and Development Bank of Wales) on the Velindre Cancer Centre
"Mutual Investment Model" PPP project.
- Acting
for BT/EE on the ground-breaking Home Office Emergency Services Network
Project Contract project to provide a next generation communication system
for the three emergency services (police, fire and rescue, and ambulance)
and other public safety users.
- Acting
on over 60 closed PFI/PPP projects across a range of sectors. For example,
we are acting for a number of investors on construction and/or commercial
disputes affecting UK social infrastructure PFI projects and on market
testing issues particularly in healthcare projects.
- Acting
for bidders on MOD procurements, including the £1.5bn Type 31e frigate
design and build contract, and the £1.5bn contract for the provision of
training services to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
- Acting
for one of three bidders to provide supercomputers and specialist storage
to the Met Office for weather and climate modelling/forecasting. The
assets and key supporting digital infrastructure are deemed to be critical
national infrastructure and are to be provided on an availability basis
over a 10 year operational term.
Technical
skills and experience
We are interested
in hearing from candidates with experience of infrastructure PPP projects
and/or public sector transactions. As a guide, due to the nature of the work
and the structure of the team, we are ideally looking to appoint an Associate
with a passion for these areas, although we will consider candidates with more
or less experience.
Your career
development
Like all our
lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development
programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:
- clear expectations of your role and what
it takes to progress;
- high quality clients and work, with early
responsibility and client exposure;
- thorough assessment and individual
feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
- robust technical training with early
skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
- reward for your contribution, progression
and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.
Salary and
benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.
Our recruitment process
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins on [email protected]
Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.