Job Family Group:

Legal Group

Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role:

M&A Legal supports the Group Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) function which is responsible for delivering bp’s high value and strategic merger, divestment and acquisition activity, including public / private acquisitions and divestments, joint ventures and public market securities trades.

M&A Legal supports market assessment, pricing and bidding, deal negotiation, and driving transactions to completion to secure maximum value for bp. In this role, you will work with Group M&A professionals and provide legal support through counselling, drafting, advising, and other forms of transactional legal assistance.

M&A experience will be advantageous and you will be expected to play a leading role in helping to evolve how bp delivers transactions by using AI and new technologies.

What you will deliver

• Providing legal support to Group M&A, which shall include drafting documents, organizing and conducting due diligence, assisting with design and preparation of transactional process and with the conduct of transaction itself;

• Identifying legal and commercial risks, assessing their potential impact, finding opportunities to capture value and growth, and providing strategic and timely legal advice;

• Ensuring that material risks are appropriately managed. Collaborating with colleagues to communicate the existence of such risks to line manager and other partners within bp and, where necessary, mitigating such risks within the context of a negotiated transaction (whether in the transaction documentation, structurally or otherwise);

• Instructing and managing external M&A counsel to ensure that support is provided when needed, transaction objectives are achieved, costs are minimised and bp receives optimal service and value;

• Working with M&A Legal colleagues to coordinate legal advice and support of M&A transactions by other in-house specialty practice groups within BP Legal;

• Supporting other transactional and business development work across the Group where M&A expertise and insight can create a competitive advantage and an opportunity to lead transactions in the business development (low carbon and trading) and Ventures spaces;

• Innovating and identifying new ways to deliver transactions to minimise costs, leverage AI and applying new technologies;

• Following the bp Code of Conduct and applicable bp safety and compliance standards and working to ensure that every transaction on which the individual is advising aligns with them

What you will need to be successful

• Prior M&A or transactional experience, preferably within the energy sector, with strong client advisory, negotiation and transaction management abilities;

• A passion for innovation, embracing AI and applying new technology to old problems;

• Experience of handling legal spend and budgets;

• Strong academics and technical legal ability;

• A proven record of commercial awareness and of high-quality contribution to business strategy and delivery;

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to influence and work collaboratively within a group of experienced and motivated lawyers, clients and M&A professionals across different teams and geographies;

• A teammate mentality with the ability to focus, direct and manage the efforts of internal and external legal and business resources to provide critical legal support to Group M&A and other partners;

• Self-motivated, driven, committed, having a bias towards finding solutions and closing issues (not merely identifying problems), be innovative and be prepared to deliver robust and commercial advice; and

• An ability to successfully priorities tasks to support a multi-transaction portfolio, particularly at peak times of the transactional cycle.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement:

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Business Acumen, Coaching, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Conflict Management, Creativity and Innovation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Influencing, Managing strategic partnerships, Mentoring, Organizational Knowledge, Resource and budget planning, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Relationship Management

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Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.