Senior Counsel

Responsibilities

• Provides legal advice and counseling on a broad range of legal issues that arise in a privately-held renewable energy asset management and development company, with a goal of enabling the company’s objectives while managing legal and compliance risk.
• Manages the legal contract review and approval process.
• Helps manage corporate governance processes.
• Drafts, implements, and manages legal and compliance policies.
• Trains and educates various functions on legal and compliance issues.
• From time to time, advises on potential complex business transactions, such as project acquisitions, overseeing outside counsel as necessary.
• From time to time, drafts, negotiates, and interprets various types of commercial contracts, including sales agreements, supply agreements, consulting agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.

Qualifications

• Highly responsive and service‑oriented
• Ability to understand and analyze complex factual and legal issues
• Strong attention to detail, combined with the ability to see the big picture
• Thrives in a fast‑paced, demanding, dynamic environment
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritize with a risk‑based approach and juggle numerous issues at once
• Self‑motivated, with an ability to work under own initiative, often under time‑critical conditions
• Can‑do, problem‑solving attitude
• Strong sense of intellectual curiosity

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited U.S. law school
• Active bar membership in good standing
• Experience with contracts and commercial transactions required
• Experience in the renewable energy industry a significant plus
• 5+ years of experience as a practicing attorney, preferably with some in‑house experience