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About the role
- Legal Counsel providing strategic legal advice and support for BP’s shipping operations. Ensuring compliance with maritime regulations and managing complex legal issues.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic legal advice and support across BP’s global shipping operations
- Ensure compliance with international regulations and manage complex contractual and risk issues
- Work closely with commercial, operational, and compliance teams to enable safe, efficient, and legally sound shipping activities
- Support the bp group strategy by delivering legal work which fuels bp’s ability to meet the world’s energy needs
- Provide specialist legal support to the Shipping business and other teams within Supply, Trading & Shipping
- Support Managing Counsel, Shipping, by providing legal support and working closely with other members of the team and relevant business leaders
- Handling of a wide range of matters covered by the Shipping Legal Team including day-to-day vessel operational issues, charterparty clause drafting/reviews, vessel and crew management, trade regulations, anti-corruption and competition laws, support to business CDD programmes and counterparty clearances, vessel sale and purchase, leasing and financing, dispute resolution
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor/barrister/attorney with at least three years post qualification experience in a specialist shipping law practice or in house with an oil major or P&I Club
- Excellent legal and business judgment, project management, communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience across the range of matters regularly handled by the team as set out above with a deep understanding in particular of tanker/LNG carrier chartering law and practice.
- Readiness to respond to a vessel casualty is a core accountability of the team
- Accordingly experience of incident response with an understanding of vessel pollution liabilities is desirable for this role
- A background in marine dispute resolution would be an advantage for this role
- Close familiarity with vessel emissions regulations and sanctions affecting shipping
Benefits
- We provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture
- A great work-life balance
- Tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path
- Life and health insurance
- Medical care package
- Flexible working options
- Collaboration spaces in a modern office environment
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