Associate General Counsel, Americas

ROLE

• – Serve as a senior legal advisor to business leaders on strategy, risk mitigation, and commercial decision making.
• – Support the General Counsel, Americas in leading regional legal operations and ensuring alignment with global legal standards.
• – Drive improvements in legal processes, workflow improvement, governance frameworks, and contract management.
• – Lead the legal work underpinning land acquisition and site control — from initial option agreements through interconnection, permitting, and the transition of projects to construction-ready status.
• – Draft, negotiate, and manage the full suite of site control documents, including options to lease/purchase, ground leases, easements, memoranda of lease/option, non-disturbance and subordination agreements, and amendments and extensions throughout the development lifecycle.
• – Structure and document land acquisition strategies in partnership with the development team, including title and survey review, resolution of title defects, and coordination with title companies and surveyors.
• – Address zoning, permitting and other land use matters.
• — Handle a variety of financing agreements, as needed, including fluency with project finance transactions, including construction loans, tax equity, long-term debt, intercreditor agreements and security documentation.
• — Handle a variety of project contracts, as needed, including fluency with EPC, O&M, module/major equipment supply and strategic vendor contracts.
• — Handle other commercial agreements, as needed, including fluency with consulting agreements, NDAs, MSAs, and other ordinary course business agreements.
• — Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents, including purchase and sale agreements, membership interest purchase agreements and related ancillary documents.
• — Manage legal due diligence for M&A transactions and working with outside counsel on diligence memoranda and issue lists.
• — Partner with development, finance, procurement, and asset management teams across the project lifecycle.
• — Provide business-minded legal advice to support decision-making and risk management.
• — Align legal strategy with business execution and timelines.
• — Extracting obligations, deadlines, and covenants
• — Developing and updating compliance matrices across financing and EPC agreements
• — Ensure internal teams are alerted of upcoming deliveries and contractual obligations.

REQUIREMENTS

• – Experience with renewable energy infrastructure, project finance, M&A and project contracts is preferred.
• – Strong contract negotiation experience, particularly in real estate, financing, mergers and acquisitions, EPC, and supply.
• – Experience managing and directing junior counsel or paralegals in contract tracking and compliance.
• – Experience advising senior business leaders and managing complex workflows.
• – Comfortable in a lean legal environment with high ownership and autonomy.

BENEFITS

• – Opportunity to contribute to one of the most impactful industries.
• – Professional and personal growth.
• – Chance to make a real impact on climate change.
• – Dynamic and supportive environment.