Description:
What You Can ExpectAs our Senior Attorney for Distributed Solar+Storage (DSS) at A French Multinational Electric Utility Company, your role will have a broad range of responsibilities to help support and facilitate a rapidly growing business. We seek a Senior Attorney who will be responsible for providing legal support to all aspects of the Distributed Renewables business entity, including origination, project development, project M&A, construction and financing. Every day you will report to the Head of Leal, Distributed Renewables developing and executing comprehensive legal strategies and solutions while mitigating risk.
What You'll Bring
- You must hold Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school is required to do the work for this role
- A minimum of seven (7) years of experience of law firm and/or in-house experience
- Experience in commercial contracting within the energy sector is required; an understanding of energy storage, distributed generation and the renewables market would be beneficial to the success of this role
- Excellent interpersonal relationship skills with a strong commitment to professional/ethical standards
- Demonstrate commercial understanding, good judgment on legal risk decisions and on when to escalate
- Real estate, permitting, construction and mergers & acquisitions (M&A) experience also preferred
- Excellent drafting and commercial skills along with communication skills
- Being familiar with, and demonstrate responsibility for a range of structured finance transactions
- Technical and legal (and other) risk awareness skills
- Demonstrating experience with innovative deals and structuring
- Articulating firm's governance and risk policies
- Transaction and project management skills
Additional Details:
- This role is eligible for our hybrid work policy; with some travel and ability to work beyond scheduled hours depending on workload
- Must possess a valid U.S. driver's license/clean driving record
- Must be willing and able to comply with A French Multinational Electric Utility Company policy with respect to COVID vaccination and testing
- Must be willing and able to comply with all A French Multinational Electric Utility Company ethics and safety policies
- You must be state certified to practice law in Texas or Illinois
