About us: BESS Broadway develops grid-scale battery energy storage (BESS) projects in the UK, Germany, Australia, Japan and Latin America. We co-invest with developers in projects at an early or mid stage of development, take them to ready-to-build, and sell them.
(BESS Broadway):
- Running our co-investments in development-stage projects from term sheet to completion. This includes drafting and negotiating term sheets, share purchase and subscription agreements, shareholders' agreements, co-development agreements and development loan agreements.
- Keeping each deal on track, and managing the obligations that continue after completion.
- Scoping and managing legal due diligence by external counsel.
- Managing foreign direct investment (FDI) and other government approvals for our investments, with external counsel.
- Managing the legal side of each project after we invest, through to sale.
- Instructing and managing local counsel in Spain, Portugal and Latin America (including civil law countries): setting the scope, agreeing and managing fees and checking invoices.
- Helping to build our standard documents (term sheets, investment agreements, NDAs, checklists) and the processes our deal team uses.
Key Qualifications and Skills:
- Qualified as a solicitor in Spain,
Portugal or Latin America countries.
- Around 1-3 years' post-qualification experience, gained at a leading local or international law firm. In-house experience, or a secondment to a client, is an advantage.
- You have run share acquisitions, joint ventures or similar investments yourself: you prepared the first draft, ideally led the negotiation and managed completion.
- Experience in renewable energy or infrastructure, ideally development-stage battery storage, solar or wind projects is preferred. Experience of foreign direct investment (FDI) filings is an advantage.
- Experience of deals in Spain, Portugal and Latin America countries, working with local counsel. Another European language is an advantage.
- Native Spanish. Clear, precise written and spoken English. Chinese is an advantage.
- Organised, independent and practical. You are comfortable working in a small team across several time zones.
What else to know:
– Three months in Hong Kong or China Mainland to work with group team and regularly catch-up with group team going forward.
– Travel. Regular travel within Spain, Portugal and Latin America, and occasional travel to Hong Kong and China mainland.
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