Construction Associate

We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Associate to join our highly regarded national non-contentious construction team based in Bristol.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected team with a wide variety of interesting work and clients, and a real opportunity to grow and develop your own practice.

The practice

Our non-contentious construction practice is truly comprehensive in scope and features leading work on a national scale, and is a practice that the firm is actively looking to expand to compliment and support Osborne Clarke's strategic direction.

We advise on nationally important infrastructure projects, such as energy generation (primarily through renewable sources), social infrastructure (for example hospitals and schools), regeneration and iconic development projects, mixed use and residential development, commercial and logistics projects, and major retail developments.

Our work ranges from initial procurement advice and legal project management, through to negotiating complex construction procurement agreements, whether bespoke or based on the myriad of industry standard forms commonly used in the UK, and often leading or working alongside other advisers. We also work closely with our contentious construction, major projects, energy, commercial real estate, banking and project finance teams.

Given Osborne Clarke's broader strategic focus on the impact of decarbonisation, urban dynamics and digitalisation on our Firm-wide sector focus areas, we foresee significant growth of the non-contentious construction work stream. In particular, we would love to hear from candidates with an interest in and (ideally, but not essentially) experience of one or more of the following areas:

• General UK domestic development work - our work covers a broad range of sectors including commercial offices, hotels, retail, residential and mixed use, and industrial.
• Energy, Renewables and Power - we have one of the most renowned renewables and power management teams in the UK. Our construction team is central to the sector and our work includes solar, battery storage, wind, EfW, nuclear, gas and grid stability projects.
• PFI/PPP projects - our work encompasses a broad range of sectors including student accommodation, social infrastructure, defence and transport projects.

We advise clients across a number of sectors who are leaders in their fields, including GLP, Foresight, Greystar, St Modwen Developments, Cubex, Fiera Real Estate, Barratt and David Wilson Homes, Taylor Wimpey, InfraRed, Vistry Group, Octopus, Equitix, NGED, Conrad, Bluefield and Downing.

The team

The team is led by partners Phil Davies, Alexandra Gower and Duncan Parker and is based across our Bristol & London offices. It is made up of a team of 3 Partners, 1 Legal Director, 2 Associate Directors, 6 Senior Associates, 2 Associates (with a further 2 Associates joining in the Autumn), 2 Trainees, 1 Solicitor Apprentice and 1 Paralegal.

Technical skills and experience

You will have gained experience of non-contentious construction matters at a well-respected practice either through a seat during your training contract or post-qualification. You will be versatile and able to work across a range of different matters across different sectors.

You will be highly motivated and interested in getting involved in a broad range of work working on different project types and across different sectors. You will have worked on matters in relation to one or more of our key sectors and be committed in relation to the ongoing growth of our sector expertise. You will have good project management skills

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.

For more information or to apply

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the recruitment team on angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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