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Opportunity for a Jnr Associate to join the ENR Team in Singapore

Our Singapore-based Energy and Natural Resources team is excited to welcome a Junior Associate to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding group. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with leading experts on complex, high-profile energy and infrastructure projects worldwide, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and the evolving energy transition.

In this role, you will work closely with lawyers on cross-border initiatives spanning oil and gas, LNG, renewables, and cutting-edge technologies such as hydrogen and sustainable fuels. You will play a key role in advising clients on regulatory compliance, project finance, ESG and sustainability matters, as well as drafting and managing transaction documentation.

The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in advising multinational clients across the energy sector - including oil and gas, LNG, renewables, and emerging energy technologies such as liquid hydrogen and green ammonia. You will play a key role in structuring and executing major transactions, navigating regulatory compliance, and providing strategic guidance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues.

The team has deep experience across the full energy spectrum, including oil and gas, power, and renewables, and routinely acts on market-leading infrastructure and project development matters.

The group advises an international client base that includes commodity traders, mining companies, utilities, investment banks, multilateral development institutions, corporates, fund managers, shipowners, shipyards, underwriters, brokers, and charterers.

The successful candidate will join a friendly, collaborative, and high-performing team and will be supported in their professional growth through the Firm's structured CareeRS development programme.

The Firm

Reed Smith is a dynamic international law firm dedicated to helping clients move their businesses forward. With an inclusive culture and innovative mindset, we deliver smarter, more creative legal services that drive better outcomes for our clients. Our deep industry knowledge, long-standing relationships and collaborative structure make us the go-to partner for complex disputes, transactions, and regulatory matters.

Reed Smith in Singapore.

Reed Smith is strategically positioned to advise clients in Singapore and throughout the region, particularly Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

Our Singapore lawyers provide a seamless service with particular strength in international trade and commodities, dry and wet shipping, trade and ship finance, energy and natural resources, corporate, international arbitration, dispute resolution, and regulatory and investigations work. Many businesses are now adopting Singapore as their chosen arbitration forum, and our location on the ground enables us to act efficiently and effectively on behalf of clients with arbitrations taking place in Singapore and across the region.

Reed Smith is in a Formal Law Alliance (FLA) with Singapore law practice Resource Law LLC. The FLA significantly expands Reed Smith's offering in Singapore and our ability to service our clients' legal requirements in handling multi-jurisdictional transactions, disputes, and cross border work involving Singapore law and the Singapore courts. The full service offering of the FLA includes advisory, transactional, corporate, and dispute resolution expertise in all of Singapore's core industries and practices, including energy and natural resources, shipping, financial industries, insurance, regulatory, restructuring and life sciences.

We all share a common culture, with core values supporting the firm's commitment to add value, achieve excellence, and promote professional development. We place a huge significance on listening to our people and incorporating their ideas wherever possible.

Requirements

• You should be SG, US or common-law qualified (such as UK, Hong Kong, Australia, or New Zealand) with at least 1+ years PQE.
• Qualified lawyer with 1-3 years of relevant experience, ideally within energy and natural resources or infrastructure projects.
• Strong interest in sustainability, energy transition, and ESG matters.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.
• It is key for the junior lawyer to have a good foundation of skills from a well-regarded international firm with a keen interest to learn and develop expertise in the core areas highlighted above.

Key Competencies

At Reed Smith, we welcome direct applications either in response to one of our advertised vacancies or on a speculative basis. Please click on the "Apply Now" button to submit your details and we will be in touch.

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