Associate General Counsel - Transactions

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate agreements for various corporate transactions, including acquisitions and divestures, new construction, joint ventures, and various customer-facing transactions.
• Provide legal advice and counsel to AEP operating companies and business leaders, including with respect to the legal requirements of proposed transactions and projects, identification and allocation of legal risk, compliance, customer relationships, and credit risk.
• Oversee team that structures, drafts, negotiates, and closes a broad range of transactions (M&A, joint ventures, and commercial arrangements).
• Manage outside counsel on transactional matters, oversee budgets and billing, and monitor outside counsel performance.
• Cook up with tax, accounting, regulatory and business stakeholders to manage legal risk allocation and close complex transactions.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory and market developments affecting industry-specific transactional issues and provide actionable guidance to the business.

Legal Requirements

• Demonstrated experience structuring, negotiating, and closing corporate transactions.
• Ability to follow-up on transactional issues, negotiate agreements with opposing counsel, and advise AEP commercial teams regarding same.
• Big picture oriented, yet focus driven, with strong attention to detail.

Communication Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong advocacy and negotiation skills.
• Ability to communicate cross functionally with all business units.
• Ability to relate to many different constituencies in a positive, proactive manner that will engender confidence from company management and attorney colleagues.
• Problem solver coupled with good conflict resolution skills.
• Extremely organized, self-starter, and results oriented.

Work Location

This position’s primary work location will be AEP’s offices in Columbus, Ohio. The position will be expected to be in the office 5 days a week.

Education and Professional Background

J.D. required. Eligible to practice in Ohio. Minimum 10 years’ applicable professional experience as a practicing transactional attorney, preferably with a law firm or in a corporate legal department. (Associate General Counsel Grade 13)

Admission to practice in one or more states.

Pay

Compensation Grade: SP20-013
Compensation Range: $221,489.00 - $287,934.50

Schedule

S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.