Description:

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

A Global Law Firm is seeking an experienced environmental lawyer with at least 8 years of practice experience to join our Environmental & Mass Tort team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in environmental, energy, and natural resources law, with substantial experience advising clients on complex, high-profile, and high-value matters involving infrastructure, renewable energy, and power development projects. This role plays a critical part in supporting project finance and M&A transactions, including work with developers, sponsors, and lenders. While the position is open to any U.S. office, California and Texas experience is preferred.

This is an excellent opportunity for a lawyer who thrives at the intersection of law, policy, finance, and innovation—including emerging areas such as carbon markets and energy transition projects.

Key Requirements:
Candidates should have at least 8 years of experience with U.S. federal and state environmental regulatory programs and demonstrated expertise in the following areas:

Project and Facility Permitting: Proficiency in securing environmental permits, including those related to air, water, wetlands, underground injection control (UIC), and offshore facilities. Experience with utility-scale renewable energy and power projects is highly valued.
Environmental Review Processes: Deep understanding of NEPA and CEQA, with experience managing environmental reviews, coordinating with consultants and regulatory agencies, and supporting project development timelines.
Contaminated Site Management: Familiarity with site assessment and remediation under CERCLA, RCRA, and relevant state waste management and remediation programs, particularly as it relates to real estate and project development risk.
Transactional Due Diligence & Environmental Risk Allocation: Significant experience supporting project finance and M&A transactions, including conducting diligence, drafting and negotiating environmental terms in financing and purchase agreements, and advising on environmental representations, warranties, indemnities, and compliance covenants.
Lender and Sponsor Coordination: Ability to work seamlessly with project finance counsel, developers, and lenders on environmental issues that impact bankability, including permitting status, compliance assessments, and risk mitigation strategies.

Additional Qualifications:

Experience reviewing and analyzing third-party environmental reports (e.g., Phase I/II ESAs, biological assessments, wetlands delineations, cultural resource surveys).
Familiarity with title and survey review as it relates to environmental conditions, use restrictions, and institutional lender requirements.
Knowledge of land use law, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), habitat conservation planning, and state Public Utilities Commission processes.
Experience with carbon markets, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and broader energy transition technologies.
Exposure to cross-border energy or infrastructure projects and international environmental compliance frameworks is a plus.