Group General Counsel

We are currently supporting a major infrastructure investment platform in the Middle East in the search for a General Counsel to join its senior leadership team.

The organisation develops, invests in, and manages large-scale infrastructure concessions and PPP projects across multiple markets and is backed by significant institutional capital.

This role will take ownership of the legal and contractual framework across a complex, active infrastructure portfolio, covering concession agreements, EPC contracts, O&M structures, project financing arrangements, and multi-jurisdictional corporate entities.

At any given time, the legal function oversees 200+ live contracts across the platform, requiring strong oversight, prioritisation, and commercial judgement.

This is not a traditional legal oversight position.

We are seeking a highly commercial, transaction-oriented General Counsel who operates as a core part of the investment and delivery engine - not a downstream reviewer of documents.

The successful individual will:

• Act as a strategic partner to investment, development, and project delivery teams
• Lead and shape PPP / concession transactions through to financial close
• Drive the structuring and negotiation of complex contractual frameworks across EPC, O&M, and financing
• Translate legal positions into clear commercial outcomes, risk allocation strategies, and bankability considerations
• Operate comfortably in live deal environments, managing competing timelines and stakeholders

Critically, this role requires someone who understands that contractual decisions directly impact project economics, returns, and long-term asset performance - and can actively shape those outcomes.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience across:

• Infrastructure investment platforms or developers (principal-side strongly preferred)
• Project finance transactions (debt/equity structuring, lender interface)
• EPC and major infrastructure contracting
• Multi-jurisdictional corporate and asset structures

We are not looking for a purely advisory or corporate legal profile.

We require a hands-on infrastructure General Counsel who has:

• Direct, repeat experience leading PPP / concession transactions to financial close
• A deep understanding of how risk allocation, contract structuring, and negotiation positions influence financial models, funding structures, and investor returns
• The ability to move seamlessly between legal detail and commercial strategy
• A track record of operating in lean, high-performance teams where legal is embedded in execution, not separate from it

In essence, this is a role for a deal-driven infrastructure lawyer who thinks like an investor and executes like a project sponsor.