Renewable Energy Counsel

Legal Counsel

Project Finance, Project/ Construction Documents & Corporate Governance focus

Office Location: Sydney CBD

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following activities:

• Provide counsel to the local commercial team with respect to the development, financing, construction and operation of utility-scale photovoltaic projects

• Assist with the management of regulatory and permitting affairs, particularly during project development stages

• Research, review, interpret, draft and negotiate project contracts such as power purchase agreements, EPC agreements and O&M agreements

• Manage and supervise outside counsel; manage and be responsible for administrating legal budgets; review and approve outside counsel invoices

• Provide counsel on legal issues identified by construction management in connection with projects under construction

• Provide counsel on legal issues identified by O&M and asset management in connection with projects under operation

• Provide support with the corporate housekeeping activities of the client’s Australian entities

• Assist with potential disputes

KEY SELECTION CRITERIA

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• Law degree from a leading law school

• Licensed to practice law in Australia

• 3-7 years of professional legal work experience

• 2-3 years of relevant experience at a major law firm or with a sophisticated in-house legal department with a focus on project finance

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Our client is a leading global renewable energy company in markets including Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and America with over 70 completed projects. Leveraging its proven experience and expertise in the industry, they have built a business model that combines ownership of a diversified portfolio of clean power generation assets in its key markets, seeking long-term operational and financial optimization, with an increased focus in customer needs arising as a result of the power sector transformation.

To this end, in the next 5 years the company expects an investment of over USD 4 billion in fixed assets . Our client has developed and secured PPAs for a multiple completed solar projects in Australia, and currently has many more projects in the pipeline at various stages from land acquisition through financial close, construction for both utility scale Solar and Storage.

This is a change to work as part of a small close knit high quality legal team that works as an integrated part of the business on all stages of the project lifecycle