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Environmental Solicitor - Associate - 3-4 years PQE
Environmental Solicitor – Associate – 3-4 years PQE
| Category: | Legal |
|---|---|
| Employment Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Salary: | Dependent on experience |
Our private practice legal client has over 40 offices in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. The firm’s environment and climate change practice is a recognised market name in these areas. This practice covers environmental health and safety, climate change and emissions trading, cleantech and renewables. The practice has extensive experience in transactional, stand-alone compliance and contaminated land work.
They currently have a vacancy for an associate with 3-4 post qualification experience (or equivalent) with environmental experience. Their experience will ideally have been gained at a leading City firm or overseas equivalent. Working as part of a small team they will be able to manage their own work load. Their previous experience will include M&A regulatory, contaminated land and waste management.
The practice advises clients on a wide range of EHS compliance issues including review, negotiation of and compliance with Pollution Prevention & Control permits, COMAH and COSHH issues, waste classification, hazardous substances management and transportation issues, WEEE & RoHS, REACH and contaminated land.
The Climate Change practice includes advising on the international legal regime relating to climate change and renewable energy, advising on investments in CDM and JI projects under the Kyoto Protocol, regulatory and contractual issues around trading under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the formation and management of carbon funds and procurement facilities and voluntary offset schemes.
The practice has also advised on the international legal regime relating to carbon capture and storage.
Requirements
- England and Wales qualified lawyer
- 3-4 years experience of working as a solicitor in an environmental practice
Due to the high volume of applications we recieve it is not possible to provide feedback on all applications. If you have not heard from us within 10 days your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful on this ocassion.
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