Senior LNG Trading Lawyer – In House

We’re looking for an experienced LNG or energy Trading lawyer to join our client,  a leading global energy company, to support the London based team during a busy period.

You will join a highly collegiate legal team operating within a global legal function, supporting short-term, structured and longer-term LNG trading activity, primarily focused on the Atlantic Basin.

The Role
You will take ownership of a broad range of LNG trading and commercial matters, including:

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating LNG master trading agreements and documentation for spot and short-term physical transactions
• Supporting complex, high-value mid and long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements, including multibillion dollar offtake arrangements
• Advising on structured transactions, including joint ventures, shareholder agreements, regasification capacity agreements and downstream LNG infrastructure documentation
• Providing legal advice on LNG operational and trading events, including force majeure, sanctions, government action, cargo scheduling issues, late arrivals and credit support
• Advising on LNG structuring and value chain optimisation, including storage solutions, ship to ship transactions and related arrangements
• Supporting formal and informal disputes in collaboration with an established disputes team
• Exercising strong legal and commercial judgement in fast moving, time sensitive trading environments

About You
Ideally you will:

• be a senior commercial or energy lawyer
• have strong experience in energy trading, LNG, shipping or complex commodities transactions
• be confident advising in high-value, time critical, market driven situations

Start: ASAP
Duration: The assignment is expected to run for at least 6 months
Working pattern: Full time (with flexibility to 4 days per week)
If you’re a senior LNG or energy trading lawyer looking for your next opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!

Why Join LOD?

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD
LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.