- Location
- Roma
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Legal
- Seniority
- Mid
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
Legal Counsel
Department: Legal
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Italy
Description
Your Mission
Field is a European independent power producer that develops, builds and operates grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) and other energy transition assets, with activities in the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy. Field’s Italian office in Rome is looking for a Legal Counsel based in Rome to join our legal team and support Field's growing business in Italy. The role reports to the Senior Legal Counsel, Italy, and works closely with the Origination, Development, Construction and Finance teams.
You’ll join a team that is strongly committed to making a difference in developing, financing, building and operating the assets we need to protect our climate and the environment.
Key Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
Key responsibilities include, especially in the near term:
Real Estate and Permitting
Real Estate and Permitting
- Manage, under the guidance of the Senior Legal Counsel and in cooperation with the Origination team, the land acquisition and expropriation process (Espropriazione per pubblica utilità), ensuring compliance with Italian law, in particular Presidential Decree (D.P.R.) 327/2001 (Testo Unico Espropri), and handling relationships with public authorities, private landowners and other stakeholders to secure land rights within project timelines and budgets.
- Review draft notarial deeds for project land (e.g. sale, surface right and easement agreements) and coordinate their execution with notaries; review cadastral records (visure catastali), carry out mortgage and encumbrance searches (ispezioni ipotecarie) and analyse 20-year notarial reports (relazioni notarili ventennali) on the plots.
- Provide legal support on real estate and site development of battery storage projects in Italy, helping to secure robust land-use rights and permitting compliance for BESS facilities.
- Support the Senior Legal Counsel on permitting documentation and regulatory advice, including authorisation procedures for BESS projects.
Compliance with the Legislative Decree 231/2001
- Support the Supervisory Body (Organismo di Vigilanza, "OdV"), assisting with the collection and consolidation of mandatory information flows from the various corporate departments to the OdV.
- Assist in aligning the Organisation, Management and Control Model (Modello 231) with overlapping regulatory frameworks, including data protection (GDPR) and health and safety (Legislative Decree 81/2008).
General Legal and Corporate Secretarial Matters
- Draft and review contracts and legal documentation, including letters of intent, NDAs, service agreements and legal correspondence, and maintain standard templates.
- Assist, under the guidance of the Senior Legal Counsel, with corporate secretarial matters, including the preparation of board and shareholders' meeting minutes and corporate filings.
- Support the organisation of board and shareholders' meetings, including preparing and circulating agendas, meeting materials and briefing notes, and maintaining forward planners and action trackers.
- Support the maintenance of statutory registers, minute books, governance databases, templates and electronic and physical records of contracts and legal documents.
- Support the legal team with document management and day-to-day administration, e.g. scheduling appointments with notaries and liaising with other parties involved in legal matters.
- Contractual services with partners, land scouts and engineering firms to support project development joint development agreements (co-sviluppo)
- Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts for the wider business e.g. NDAs, software licences, services agreements.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
The skills you’ll need
- Master's degree in Law (Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza).
- 2-3 years' relevant legal experience in the Italian renewable energy sector, either in-house or in a law firm advising energy clients.
- Native or fully fluent Italian and fluent English, both written and spoken, with strong drafting skills in both languages.
- Working knowledge of Italian real estate and administrative law, ideally including land acquisition or expropriation procedures.
- Able to organise and manage own workload and to prioritise according to business impact, working under the supervision of the Senior Legal Counsel.
- Good commercial awareness and sound judgment on legal risk.
- Pragmatic, business-focused approach to legal advice.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Intellectual curiosity, confidence and a strong desire to learn.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and to deliver results under pressure.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience supporting energy projects through development and construction, ideally BESS.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a strong focus on collaboration and cross-functional coordination.
- Admission to the Italian Bar (Avvocato).
- Corporate secretarial experience.
- Familiarity with legal technology and AI tools to streamline day-to-day legal work.
Benefits
Package Details
We’re offering a competitive compensation package, including participation in our employee share scheme which rewards all employees for the growth of the business. You’ll be awarded shares when you join, which will vest over four years - and as the business grows in size and value, so will your shares!
Other benefits:
- Hybrid Working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
- 10% company wide bonus paid annually
- €2000 annual learning & development budget to spend on whatever best supports your growth
- 1 month a year ‘work from anywhere in the world’ policy
- Green leave - paid time off to do something good for the environment
- Co-working office space in Rome
Skills
ComplianceGDPR
Languages
Italian