Associate General Counsel

Join our North America Legal Team as a Senior Counsel, where you will provide legal support for our growing utility-scale solar energy and energy storage pipeline in the U.S. and Canada. You will focus on real estate, land acquisition, environmental/permitting, and development activities, and will interact with various external counterparties. Your role will involve overseeing all strategic real estate legal support, providing general real estate legal support for project development, and managing internal real estate legal processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in real estate law, excellent communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Act as the primary attorney to oversee all strategic real estate legal support for site control, project finance and M&A transactions.

Manage, develop, and oversee internal real estate legal processes, and develop legal strategies for new and innovative transactions.

The ideal candidate will be a strong technical attorney and a pragmatic businessperson

Responsibilities

• Provide general real estate legal support for all aspects of project development, including project design, site control, tax abatement, permitting, interconnection, offtake, and financing opportunities.
• Clear communicator, comfortable explaining issues to junior commercial team members and presenting risks and structures to executive team

Requirements

• Demonstrated real estate experience with all aspects of project development, including site control, permitting, interconnection, offtake opportunities, and financing
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with outside parties, including title companies, consultants, lenders and investors
• Excellent organizational and planning skills, with meticulous attention to detail
• Responsive and hardworking, ability to manage heavy workload in fast-paced environment with minimal oversight

Entrepreneurial, creative, and strategic

• Ability to work as a team member and maintain relationships across the organization
• Minimum of 5 years of substantial experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating real estate agreements within a top-tier law firm and/or corporate legal department
• Ability to uphold standards of discretion and confidentiality and exercise good judgment
• Experience working specifically on utility-scale solar energy and/or battery storage projects preferred but not required
• U.S.-credentialed law degree from a top-tier ABA accredited law school