Lead Legal Counsel - Project Finance

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Role Overview

Stegra is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Lead Legal Counsel – Project Finance to join our Legal team and take a leading role in supporting the company's large-scale project debt financing, together with related corporate and compliance work. This role will play a critical part in shaping and executing our debt financing strategy, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding the company’s legal and commercial interests across all debt-related matters.

Reporting to the Head of Legal – Corporate Finance & Company Secretary, and working closely and with support from the Corporate Finance Legal Counsel, you will take primary day-to-day ownership of the legal workstreams underpinning the company's large project financing package, including its ECA and public funding arrangements, multi-tranche lender structures, and security package.

This is an opportunity for an experienced, commercially-minded lawyer who wants to take ownership of a sophisticated and high-profile project finance capital stack, working directly with senior stakeholders on some of the company's most important legal and financial matters. The role carries substantial responsibility and autonomy, with significant scope to shape how project finance legal support is delivered as the company scales.

As Stegra continues to grow, the role offers significant exposure to a broad range of legal and finance matters, close collaboration with internal and external senior stakeholders and executive leadership, and the opportunity to mentor more junior members of the legal team on project finance matters.

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