Infrastructure / Planning Lawyer – In House - Datacentres
Substantive Legal Experience
Substantive Legal Experience
London
Legal Staffing
Jun 3, 2026
Infrastructure / Planning Lawyer – In House - Datacentres
We’re looking for an Infrastructure/ Planning Lawyer to join our client, a global technology company, to support them through undergoing significant growth across its EMEA digital infrastructure portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing, international legal team supporting large-scale development projects at the forefront of cloud and digital expansion.
You’ll be supporting the teams infrastructure expansion programme dealing with the increasing volume and complexity of datacentre development projects, managing planning, land use, development, and environmental permitting work on a day to day basis.
This is a business-facing and operational role, where you will be embedded within live projects, helping to drive progress through complex regulatory and planning environments across multiple jurisdictions.
Key Responsibilities
Role Details
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:
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.
We’re looking for an Infrastructure/ Planning Lawyer to join our client, a global technology company, to support them through undergoing significant growth across its EMEA digital infrastructure portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing, international legal team supporting large-scale development projects at the forefront of cloud and digital expansion.
You’ll be supporting the teams infrastructure expansion programme dealing with the increasing volume and complexity of datacentre development projects, managing planning, land use, development, and environmental permitting work on a day to day basis.
This is a business-facing and operational role, where you will be embedded within live projects, helping to drive progress through complex regulatory and planning environments across multiple jurisdictions.
Key Responsibilities
- Advise on planning, zoning, land use, and environmental permitting strategies for large-scale infrastructure projects
- Act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders and senior business leaders involved in development activities
- Coordinate and manage external counsel across multiple EMEA jurisdictions, ensuring clear and commercially practical advice
- Draft, review and negotiate development and infrastructure-related agreements
- Identify opportunities to streamline permitting processes and reduce delivery friction
- Support the development of templates, playbooks, and scalable legal processes
- Work cross-functionally to translate legal constraints into practical business decisions
- Qualified lawyer with significant experience in infrastructure and land development
- Strong expertise in planning, land use and environmental permitting (EMEA exposure preferred)
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, commercial environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills with experience partnering directly with non-legal teams
- A proactive mindset with the ability to drive process improvements
Role Details
- Start date: Asap
- Duration: 10 months
- Working pattern: Full-time, hybrid
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.