Associate General Counsel, Partner - Joint Ventures: Strategic Finance & M&A

Job Description

Job Description

 

 

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced Associate General Counsel, Joint Ventures & Finance to serve as the lead legal partner for the company's most significant partnership and financing initiatives. In this high-impact role, you will lead the legal structuring, negotiation, and execution of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, minority investments, and sophisticated financing transactions — including project financings, structured debt arrangements, and acquisition financings — that are central to the company's long-term growth strategy. You will also support M&A activity and other strategic transactions as they arise.

You will work closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to structure, negotiate, and execute sophisticated transactions across a rapidly evolving infrastructure platform operating at the intersection of energy, AI infrastructure, and digital assets. This role offers substantial exposure to strategic decision-making, capital formation, and enterprise-level legal and business issues.

The ideal candidate combines deep joint venture and finance experience — including partnership structuring, governance design, and complex debt and capital arrangements — with practical business judgment, a high degree of ownership and autonomy, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, execution-oriented environment.

About You

• Joint Venture & Partnership Lead: You have significant experience structuring, negotiating, and executing joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and minority investments, including economic and governance terms — capital contributions and funding obligations, distribution waterfalls, governance and control rights, transfer restrictions, exit mechanics, and deadlock resolution.
• Finance & Capital Structuring: You have led or played a senior role on sophisticated financing transactions, including project financings, structured debt arrangements, acquisition financings, credit facilities, or other capital markets and infrastructure-related transactions, and are fluent in covenant packages, intercreditor issues, and collateral structures.
• Ongoing Venture Governance: You understand that JVs live beyond closing — you have experience advising on post-formation governance, partner disputes, amendments, capital calls, and restructurings of existing ventures.
• M&A and Strategic Transactions: You have supporting experience on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other corporate transactions, and can lead or support M&A workstreams as needed.
• Strategic Problem Solver: You are capable of navigating complex commercial, regulatory, and structural issues and developing practical, business-oriented solutions.
• Cross-Functional Operator: You work effectively across legal, finance, tax, treasury, development, and executive teams and are comfortable coordinating multiple stakeholders under demanding timelines.
• Independent and Commercially Minded: You are comfortable operating independently, managing multiple high-priority matters simultaneously, and exercising sound judgment in dynamic environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead legal structuring, negotiation, and execution of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and minority investments, including formation documents, JV and LLC agreements, governance frameworks, and related commercial arrangements.
• Lead legal support for financing transactions, including project financings, structured debt arrangements, acquisition financings, and credit facilities, including term sheets, loan documentation, covenant and diligence matters, intercreditor arrangements, and closings.
• Advise on the ongoing governance and administration of existing joint ventures and financing arrangements, including amendments, waivers, capital calls, compliance matters, and partner or lender relations.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions, including structuring, diligence, negotiation, and documentation.
• Partner with Finance, Treasury, Tax, Development, Investor Relations, and other business teams to support capital formation and strategic initiatives and ensure seamless transaction execution.
• Draft and negotiate complex transaction agreements — JV and partnership agreements, investment agreements, loan and security documents, and ancillary agreements — in support of the company's strategic objectives.
• Manage outside counsel and specialized advisors to deliver high-quality, cost-effective legal support on sophisticated matters.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Legal Officer and senior leadership on partnership strategy, capital structure, risk assessment, and execution considerations.

ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

This role is in office at our corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.