Legal Counsel – Infrastructure Development & Permitting | EMEA Infrastructure Projects | UK or EU Qualified
📍 Remote
⏳ Initial 5-month contract with strong potential to extend
🕒 Full-time
📅 Start ASAP / June
Exciting interim opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure, Planning or Environmental Lawyer to support a leading multinational organisation delivering major infrastructure projects across EMEA.
This role sits within a highly regarded in-house legal team and will focus on advising on large-scale development projects, land use, planning, zoning and environmental permitting matters.
Key Responsibilities:
* Advising on planning, zoning and land use issues across EMEA jurisdictions.
* Supporting major infrastructure and development projects.
* Managing environmental permitting and regulatory approval processes.
* Drafting and negotiating development-related agreements.
* Managing external counsel and coordinating cross-border legal advice.
* Partnering closely with senior business stakeholders and project teams.
* Contributing to legal templates, playbooks and process improvement initiatives.
About You:
* UK or EU-qualified lawyer.
* Ideally 5-8+ years' PQE.
* Strong experience in planning, infrastructure, real estate development and/or environmental law.
* Experience advising on major infrastructure, energy, transport, utilities, data centre or large-scale development projects.
* Comfortable working directly with business stakeholders in a fast-paced international environment.
* Experience gained in private practice, in-house or government bodies will be considered.
About Elevate
Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.
ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.
Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.
Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.
As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.