Description:
Overview:About LS Power:
Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission with another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $65 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.
Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:
Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world
Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem
Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership
Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.
Benefits:
We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees' happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.
Compensation:
The salary for this role is $250,000 - $300,000. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in New York. This salary range may also be modified in the future.
About the role:
An experienced and highly motivated self-starter to assist and lead various transactions in mergers and acquisitions and financings for LS Power's private equity team. You will have both a meaningful role and an opportunity to develop professionally with the support of collaborative and experienced peers. You will support our M&A, financing and other corporate development activities.
Responsibilities:
What you will do:
- Lead mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions at all stages, including bids, performing due diligence, drafting and negotiating term sheets and definitive transaction documentation, and supporting closing transactions and post-closing integration, including documentation relating to management teams.
- Assist in preparation of M&A related investment committee meeting materials.
- Lead financing activities relating to M&A transactions and refinancing of existing debt of portfolio companies.
- Collaborate and build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including finance, tax, regulatory, accounting, asset and energy management and investor relations.
Qualifications:
We want you on our team because you…
- Have JD, with at least 6-8 years of experience handling complex M&A, financing and other corporate transactions.
- Are able to be the primary in-house attorney on M&A and other corporate transactions, including handling multiple transactions or projects simultaneously.
- Are able to quickly assess business challenges, make timely, pragmatic recommendations under pressure and identify, prioritize and resolve issues quickly and independently while balancing legal risks against business interests.
- Have excellent communication, project management, negotiation and drafting skills.
- Have flexibility to assist the corporate legal team in its activities and its mission as needs arise.
- Energy/project finance and in-house experience, with a strong understanding of deal structuring and financial modeling.
- Knowledge of renewables and tax equity, including how tax incentives and financing structures impact project economics and investment decisions.
