Assistant General Counsel, Transactions
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CruxClean energy finance
Remote (U.S.)Full-TimeMiddle
SalaryBase salary: $230,000-$270,000, based on experience. Bonus: Discretionary annual performance bonus. Stock options in a rapidly growing company, in an amount to be agreed.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3-6 years of transactional experience
Requirements
- 3-6 years of transactional experience, with a significant portion in projects, energy, or infrastructure finance at a leading law firm.
- Hands-on experience with tax equity, transferable tax credit transactions, and debt financings for renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
- Ability to draft from a term sheet, negotiate a full document set, and drive transactions to closing with limited supervision.
- Working fluency in the federal energy tax credit framework, including Sections 45, 48, 45Y, 48E, 45X, and 6418.
- Understanding of tax credit qualification, bonus adders, and recapture risk, and judgment about when to involve tax counsel.
- Demonstrated practical experience using AI in legal practice, including adopting or building tools and workflows.
- Ability to make pragmatic, risk-weighted decisions informed by business needs and to know when to escalate.
- Ability to explain complex structures to non-lawyers and communicate effectively with counterparty counsel.
- Ability to manage several transactions at once and build processes in an ambiguous environment.
- JD and admission in good standing to the bar of at least one U.S. state; New York or DC preferred.
- Eligibility for in-house registration where required.
Responsibilities
- Lead legal workstreams for tax equity, preferred equity, and transferable tax credit transactions, including term sheets, agreements, guaranties, and closing deliverables.
- Support construction, bridge, back-leverage, and warehouse financings, including credit agreements, intercreditor arrangements, borrowing base and draw mechanics, and lender consents.
- Review project documents, tax credit qualification matters, insurance, and sponsor or counterparty issues; summarize risks and mitigants for investment committee materials.
- Manage funding conditions, amendments, consents, waivers, and reporting obligations across the portfolio.
- Scope and supervise outside counsel and determine which work should be handled in-house.
- Support corporate financings, strategic transactions, joint ventures, entity matters, governance, regulatory matters, intellectual property, and commercial agreements.
- Maintain and improve forms, playbooks, checklists, and closing sets, and address inefficiencies in deal processes.
- Develop, deploy, apply, and refine AI tools for diligence, drafting, document comparison, and closing workflows with legal innovation, operations, product, and engineering teams.
- Partner with Investments, Coverage, Debt Advisory, and Portfolio Management on deal discussions and commercial terms, and escalate regulatory considerations as appropriate.
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