Counsel

About the role

AES Clean Energy (AES) is seeking to hire a Rotational Attorney. This position is designed for an early-career attorney with some entry-level legal experience who will gain broad exposure to the full spectrum of AES Clean Energy’s legal practice by rotating through each of our five core legal teams.

Responsibilities

• Real Estate: Support real estate counsel on land acquisition, title review, easements, rights-of-way, lease negotiations, and landowner relations for renewable energy projects.
• Development: Assist development attorneys with M&A and due diligence activities and project development matters, including permitting, interconnection, environmental compliance, and stakeholder relations for renewable energy and battery storage projects.
• Project Counsel: Work alongside project counsel to support the construction phase of energy projects, including drafting and negotiating EPC contracts, managing project-level legal issues that arise during construction, and supporting late state project financing.
• Commercial: Collaborate with commercial attorneys on power purchase agreements (PPAs), energy storage agreements, hedging arrangements, and other commercial contracts.
• Finance: Support finance counsel on project financing transactions, including tax equity, debt financing.

Requirements

• Strong academic credentials and demonstrated interest in energy, infrastructure, or transactional law.
• Renewable energy experience; wind energy, battery storage or general infrastructure project development experience a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to work effectively as an individual and as part of a team.
• Ability to adapt to a variety of duties and often challenging tasks.
• Solid organizational and analytical skills.
• Smart, decisive, organized, methodical, biased toward action.
• Three to six years of relevant legal experience, preferably at a major law firm or in-house.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• JD from an accredited law school and active bar admission in at least one jurisdiction

Skills

• Strong academic credentials and demonstrated interest in energy, infrastructure, or transactional law.
• Renewable energy experience; wind energy, battery storage or general infrastructure project development experience a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to work effectively as an individual and as part of a team.
• Ability to adapt to a variety of duties and often challenging tasks.
• Solid organizational and analytical skills.
• Smart, decisive, organized, methodical, biased toward action.
• Three to six years of relevant legal experience, preferably at a major law firm or in-house.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• 401(k) eligibility
• Paid time off (including vacation, sick leave time, and parental leave)

Pay

The expected salary for this position, at commencement of employment, is between $120,000 and $150,025/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position also includes annual bonus.

Schedule

This is an "at-will" position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Application

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Equal Opportunity Employer

AES is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed to building strength and delivering long-term sustainability through diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and/or expression, race, national origin, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.