"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.
