Shipping Legal Counsel
Core
Provide specialist legal advice, draft and negotiate contracts, and manage legal risks for Shell Trading and Supply's global shipping, maritime, and freight trading businesses.
Role type
Senior in-house legal counsel (shipping and maritime)
Builds
Legal support for global crude oil, refined products, natural gas, LNG, and power trading operations
Domain
Energy trading, shipping, and maritime law
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
shipping and maritime law expertise, contract drafting and negotiation, risk management, dispute resolution, commercial awareness, legal risk identification, strategic advising to senior management
Preferred skills
international civil and/or common law contract knowledge, physical commodity trading experience, digital fluency, AI tool adoption
Technologies
AI tools, digital legal tools
Responsibilities
Advise on contentious and non-contentious shipping and chartering matters; support fleet renewals, decarbonisation, and shipping technology projects; collaborate with business teams to assess and manage legal risks; negotiate complex shipping and maritime transactions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic advising capability