https://jobs.co.uk/job/legal-counsel-hays-legal--89a3c112-27eb-4215-8290-408654293c60 RSS feed for Legal Counsel at Hays Legal. en-gb Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:13:06 GMT https://jobs.co.uk/job/legal-counsel-hays-legal--89a3c112-27eb-4215-8290-408654293c60 https://jobs.co.uk/job/legal-counsel-hays-legal--89a3c112-27eb-4215-8290-408654293c60 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT Location: Darlington | Salary: Negotiable | Type: Permanent | Your new company This is a rare opportunity to join a growing, highly regulated infrastructure business delivering energy projects in the UK. Working within a collaborative and well-supported environment, you''ll play a key role in helping shape the legal strategy of a business developing nationally significant infrastructure with a strong focus on governance, compliance and long-term sustainability. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, you will gain exposure to complex commercial, regulatory and project-related legal matters while working closely with senior stakeholders, external advisers, regulators and industry partners. Your new role As Legal Counsel, you will provide commercial legal advice across a broad range of matters, supporting the business through a critical phase of growth and development. This role offers exceptional exposure to large scale projects and the opportunityto develop into a broad, commercially minded in-house lawyer. Key responsibilities will include: Advising on general commercial and regulatory legal matters. Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, confidentiality agreements and heads of terms. Supporting procurement a... Permanent