Director Legal Infrastructure EMEA

You will lead infrastructure matters from term sheet through delivery and closeout for EMEA data-centre campuses. You will negotiate construction, supply, real-estate, and power agreements, manage outside counsel, and advise stakeholders on legal and commercial risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiations for owner-contractor, EPC, EPCM, and design-and-build agreements
• Draft and negotiate design and consultancy agreements
• Negotiate supply, installation, and O&M agreements for power and critical equipment
• Support site acquisition, development arrangements, ground leases, and power arrangements
• Maintain infrastructure contract templates and playbooks
• Manage counterparty negotiations and consistent contract positions
• Manage contracts through delivery and closeout
• Coordinate insurance, bonding, and lender requirements
• Manage EMEA outside counsel
• Partner with construction, procurement, finance, real estate, energy, and operations stakeholders

Requirements

• 7+ years of construction and infrastructure legal experience
• Qualification as a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales or another relevant EMEA jurisdiction
• Experience negotiating major construction, EPC/EPCM, design-and-build, professional-services, and equipment-supply agreements
• Experience working across multiple EMEA jurisdictions and managing local counsel
• Knowledge of construction risk allocation, delay remedies, warranties, insurance, liability caps, and dispute resolution
• Ability to negotiate multiple high-value contracts and explain risk to senior non-legal stakeholders