Senior Real Estate Counsel

About the role

Senior Legal Corporate Contracts/Regulatory/Compliance Counsel supporting Exus’ technical and commercial asset management division, focusing on real estate transactions for wind, solar, and battery energy storage projects.

Responsibilities

• Establish templates for real estate transactions for wind, solar and battery energy storage leases, easements and crossing agreements for repowers, greenfield builds and operational activities covering over 5000 MW across multiple U.S. states.
• Negotiate and draft a variety of real estate transactions, asset management agreements, program management agreements, financial services agreements, and energy management agreements for Exus’ technical and commercial asset management division.
• Facilitate project lending due diligence review by preparing all real estate files, including review of title commitments/policies and ALTA surveys, negotiating exceptions and endorsements to policies and obtaining title curatives.
• Work with the M&A team on MIPAs, conduct due diligence on projects/assets throughout the U.S., draft deal summaries, and provide risk analysis on agreements.
• Collaborate with various teams to negotiate and prepare service and supply agreements, asset purchase agreements, EPCs, BoPs, O&M, consulting service agreements, master service agreements, NDAs, notice letters, pre‑litigation inquiries, and insurance matters.
• Onboard and manage outside counsel.

Requirements

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

Location: Manhattan, NY. Industries: Legal Services, Oil & Energy, Renewables & Environment.