Senior Legal Counsel (Regulatory Affairs) (m/f/d)

As Senior Legal Counsel (Regulatory) you will be part of our NTT Global Data Center EMEA Legal & Governance team. You will be closely working together with the project management team in Expansion projects.

Your responsibilities 

• Advising Expansion, Power Management, Design & Engineering and Construction departments on legal aspects in relation to permitting and regulatory requirements for the EMEA footprint (i.e. Germany, England, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and South Africa) – with support from external legal counsel where required
• Advising the Energy Management team on energy law/regulatory requirements
• Negotiating and drafting of Power related agreements (i.e. PPA)
• Drafting and adapting template agreements to up-to-date legal requirements as well as preparing approval request forms, legal memos for the business
• Managing external legal consultants (if required)
• Summarising legal facts as basis for taking commercial and legal decisions
• Conducting internal legal trainings
   

Your profile

• Qualified German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) or similar EU-equivalent
• Demonstratable post-qualification experience (in-house or in a law firm) focussing on public law related aspects (especially planning law, energy law)
• High interest in Data Center sector and willing to acquire the relevant knowledge to serve as a true Legal Business Partner
• Experience in administrative law (building permits and ideally BImSchG proceedings) and dealing with large scale construction projects
• German and English business fluent. Ideally additional language: Spanish, Dutch or other.
• Experience in advising, negotiating and managing permit applications together with the Design & Engineering team
• Ability to manage large scale projects
• Enjoy presenting legal facts and cases to non-legal colleagues as well as working on solutions of practical use 
• Willingness to travel within EMEA