About us: BESS Broadway develops grid-scale battery energy storage (BESS) projects in Australia, the UK, Germany, Japan and Latin America. We co-invest with developers in projects at an early or mid stage of development, take them to ready-to-build, and sell them.

(BESS Broadway):

- Running our co-investments in development-stage projects from term sheet to completion. This includes drafting and negotiating term sheets, share purchase and subscription agreements, shareholders' agreements, co-development agreements and development loan agreements.
- Keeping each deal on track, and managing the obligations that continue after completion.
- Scoping and managing legal due diligence by external counsel.
- Managing foreign investment (FIRB) and other government approvals for our investments, with external counsel.
- Managing the legal side of each project after we invest, through to sale. This covers land options and leases, grid connection agreements, planning approvals, and the contracts needed to make a project ready to sell.
- Instructing external law firms: setting the scope, agreeing and managing fees and checking invoices.
- Helping to build our standard documents (term sheets, investment agreements, NDAs, checklists)



and the processes our deal team uses.

Key Qualifications and Skills:

- Admitted as a lawyer in an Australian state or territory.
- Around 5–7 years' post-qualification experience, gained at a leading Australian or international law firm. In-house experience, or a secondment to a client, is an advantage.
- You have run share acquisitions, joint ventures or similar investments yourself: you prepared the first draft, ideally led the negotiation and managed completion.
- Experience in renewable energy or infrastructure, ideally development-stage solar, wind or battery storage projects is preferred. Experience of foreign investment (FIRB) applications is an advantage.
- Clear, accurate written and spoken English. Chinese is an advantage.
- Organised, independent and practical. You are comfortable working in a small team across several time zones.

What else to know:

– Three months in Hong Kong or China Mainland to work with group team and regularly catch-up with group team going forward.

– Travel. Occasional travel to project sites, counterparties, Hong Kong and China mainland.

📌 Senior Legal Counsel (Australia)
🏢 CATL
📍 Australia