Associate Corporate Counsel

Overview

About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission with another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $65 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

About the Role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated junior attorney to join the world-class team of professionals responsible for developing LS Power’s innovative and important new energy infrastructure projects.  As the Associate Corporate Counsel, you will collaborate with the LS Power legal group to provide advice to senior management and teams of project developers throughout the project development lifecycle, including initial design, commercialization, competitive bidding, real estate acquisition, land use permitting, financing, construction and operation of electric transmission infrastructure and other energy projects.  The successful candidate will have both a meaningful role and an opportunity to develop professionally with the support of collaborative and experienced peers.  Responsibilities will include some or all of the following.   

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Serve as a key member of a sophisticated team of developers, eventually acting as primary in-house attorney for an expansive range of matters.
• Support construction contracting and construction management efforts, including by evaluating change order requests and making recommendations based on contract terms.
• Assist with (and grow to lead) transactions at all stages, including drafting and negotiating term sheets and definitive transaction documentation.
• Identify and analyze legal issues, and present clear, well-reasoned business and legal recommendations to clients reflecting a thorough appreciation of the business objectives and constraints.
• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate legal risk exposure, and explain and balance risks and rewards of a particular course of action.
• Recommend, retain, and manage outside counsel as needed to cost-efficiently achieve objectives.
• Assist with occasional dispute resolution and litigation as needed.
• Collaborate and build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including construction management, finance, regulatory, permitting, accounting, and asset management.
• Assist with certain financing, environmental, compliance and regulatory matters.
• Perform other responsibilities as identified from time to time.

Qualifications

We want you on our team because you...

• Earned your J.D. and have a strong academic foundation that reflects your commitment to excellence.
• Are a recent law school graduate or have up to four years of experience, you bring enthusiasm and curiosity to learning and growing in your legal career.
• Are genuinely interested in project development, construction, real estate, and environmental permitting and how these areas shape meaningful business outcomes.
• Are drawn to commercial contracts and the variety they offer from construction and consulting to engineering, procurement, financing, partnerships/joint ventures, utility operations, asset management, and real estate.
• Enjoy assessing complex business challenges and providing pragmatic, thoughtful recommendations that balance legal considerations with practical business needs.
• Demonstrate excellent judgment, communication, and drafting skills and you take pride in producing high-quality work under time pressure.
• Have a strong work ethic and a client-service mindset, always striving to deliver results that make a difference.
• Are adaptable, eager to learn new areas of law, and ready to collaborate with a legal team that values initiative, integrity, and partnership.