Senior Legal Counsel, Power & Land

Lead land and site transactions end to end — purchase and sale agreements, ground and build-to-suit leases, options, easements and rights-of-way, title and survey review, title insurance, restrictive covenants, water rights and supply agreements, and post-closing obligations.

Negotiate the utility and power arrangements that make a site viable, including interconnection and transmission agreements, discretionary and distribution service agreements, substation and shared facilities agreements, energy management and retail supply arrangements, and the financial security, milestone and energization obligations within them.

Advise on interconnection strategy and queue position with transmission and distribution service providers, electric cooperatives and system operators — including ERCOT, PJM and TVA territories and the Alberta market — and on large-load thresholds, study processes and cost allocation.

Support site selection and diligence covering zoning and land use, entitlements and permitting, environmental review, utility and water availability, and the tax incentive, abatement and special district structures that determine whether a site clears.

Lead the land use and entitlement workstream with local counsel, including rezoning and text amendments, moratoria, variances, and public hearings, and prepare the business for the public and political dimension of those proceedings.

Paper and negotiate procurement of long-lead electrical infrastructure such as transformers, switchgear and substation equipment, including origin representations, substitution and walk-away rights, and compliance with bulk-power-system and trade-control requirements.

Partner with the construction team on the interface between site, power and EPC paper so that interconnection milestones, energization dates and construction schedules stay consistent across documents rather than being negotiated separately.

Serve as a legal point of contact for utilities, cooperatives, landowners, developers, and state and local authorities, and select and manage specialist and local counsel in each market on scope, quality and spend.

Build the form library and standards for this work, including letters of intent, options, easements, interconnection and diligence checklists, and maintain correct entity, signature and authority discipline across a multi-entity structure.

Track and surface continuing obligations such as purchase options, approval and consent windows, notice and cure deadlines, financial security postings, renewal dates and energization covenants.

Support management on other legal matters as assigned.

J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing. California admission is preferred; attorneys admitted in another U.S. jurisdiction should be eligible to register as Registered In-House Counsel in California.

7+ years of transactional experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house, with a substantial share in real estate development, energy and power, or infrastructure project work.

A record of leading complex transactions end to end as the responsible attorney against sophisticated counterparties — structuring, drafting, negotiating and closing, not supporting someone else who does.

Direct experience with utility and interconnection arrangements, whether for data centers, generation, renewables, industrial load or midstream, including interconnection and service agreements, easements and rights-of-way, and negotiations with utilities and cooperatives.

Practical command of the real estate toolkit: purchase and sale, ground and build-to-suit leasing, title and survey, easements, zoning and land use, and the diligence underlying each.

Experience managing specialist and local counsel across multiple states, and the judgment to decide what stays in-house and what goes out.

Clear writing and the ability to turn a dense issue into a decision and a next step for an executive or a counterparty.

High self-motivation and a collaborative style suited to a fast-growing, global company.

Ability to work with colleagues across Asia and North America, including some meetings outside U.S. business hours, and to travel to project sites, utility and regulatory meetings, and hearings as needed.