Senior Corporate Counsel Role at Private Investment Firm Focused on Sustainable Infrastructure

Help shape the corporate strategy behind the infrastructure powering a more sustainable future.

Our client, a leading sustainable infrastructure investor, owner, and operator with a highly impressive track record of financing and managing real assets that accelerate the energy transition, is looking for a Corporate Senior Counsel, to join the Company’s legal team as a senior, trusted partner to leaders across the business. This is a high-impact role with broad ownership across corporate governance, strategic transactions, M&A, investments, joint ventures, and corporate financing.

The ideal candidate brings strong corporate transactional expertise, sound commercial judgment, and the ability to move seamlessly between strategic advice and hands-on execution. You will have significant autonomy, work closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, and help build practical legal processes that enable the Company to move quickly and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise senior leadership and business teams on a broad range of corporate matters, providing practical, commercially focused legal guidance.
• Lead corporate governance for the Company and its subsidiaries, including board and committee matters, resolutions, approvals, and corporate records.
• Advise on stockholder and capitalization matters, including governance rights, equity issuances, reorganizations, and amendments to key corporate agreements.
• Lead and support strategic transactions, including M&A, investments, joint ventures, restructurings, and asset sales, from diligence and structuring through negotiation and closing.
• Partner on corporate financings and capital raises, working with Capital Formation, Capital Markets, Finance, Tax, Investment, and Development teams on equity and debt transactions.
• Develop and improve corporate processes, policies, approval frameworks, and signing authorities to support efficient and disciplined decision-making.
• Manage outside counsel with accountability for scope, quality, timing, and cost.
• Support the broader legal team on complex and time-sensitive matters and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing legal function.

What You Bring

• JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 6+ years of relevant legal experience with strong corporate transactional experience from a leading law firm and/or in-house team.
• Experience with M&A, strategic investments, joint ventures, and corporate financing transactions; power or digital infrastructure experience is a plus.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and drive matters to completion.
• Strong commercial judgment and a solutions-oriented approach, with the ability to identify material risks and communicate advice clearly.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to partner effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and own both the strategic and detailed execution of complex matters.

Base salary range is $200,000–$280,000, with a competitive discretionary bonus and attractive benefits.

Position can sit in New York or San Francisco ; Hybrid work schedule: In office-Tuesday–Thursday: Remote- Monday & Friday.

If you are a pragmatic, commercially minded corporate attorney who likes being close to the action, please apply!