Associate General Counsel/Senior Legal Counsel

S&B USA•Palm Beach Gardens, FL

18h

About The Position

The Associate General Counsel / Senior Legal Counsel will serve as a key legal advisor supporting the Company's U.S. renewable energy portfolio. The role provides strategic and practical legal guidance across commercial contracts, project financing, asset management, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, claims management, and corporate governance. The successful candidate will work closely with executive leadership, finance, commercial, and asset management teams to manage legal risks, support business objectives, negotiate complex transactions, and oversee external legal counsel. The role also seeks to minimize legal expenses by managing appropriate legal matters internally while engaging specialized outside counsel when necessary.

Requirements

Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
Active license and good standing with a U.S. state bar.
4–7 years of transactional experience gained at a law firm with an energy practice and/or at an energy, power, or infrastructure company.
Experience supporting renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, or project development and asset management operations.
Demonstrated experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, financing documents, and corporate transactions.
Familiarity with project finance, tax equity structures, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance.
Experience managing outside counsel, legal budgets, and complex commercial disputes.
Strong business judgment and ability to translate complex legal issues into practical business recommendations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with renewable energy assets, including solar, wind, battery storage, or other power generation projects.
Familiarity with FERC, NERC, state energy regulations, and environmental permitting requirements.
Experience with power purchase agreements, O&M agreements, EPC contracts, and long-term service agreements.
Background supporting project financings, tax equity investments, and infrastructure transactions.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including asset management, operations and maintenance (O&M), procurement, vendor, consulting, confidentiality, and advisory agreements.
Lead upcoming O&M agreement renewals and support key offtake and service agreements alongside outside counsel.
Develop and maintain standardized contract templates, legal guidelines, and negotiation playbooks.
Advise on project financing documents, covenant compliance, lender consents, waivers, notices, and amendments.
Support project financing, refinancing, tax equity structures, and debt restructuring transactions.
Provide day-to-day legal guidance to asset management and operational teams on contractual obligations, defaults, counterparty disputes, performance issues, warranty claims, and force majeure events.
Develop strategies for contractor, supplier, warranty, liquidated damages, and insurance claims, aiming for commercial resolution before litigation.
Coordinate litigation and arbitration counsel when required.
Support acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and portfolio transactions, including diligence, consent, and notice workstreams.
Support tax equity transactions, tax credit matters, ownership transfers, sponsor guarantees, and repowering analyses with external tax counsel.
Monitor and advise on applicable federal, state, and industry regulatory requirements, including FERC, NERC, environmental permits, and project financing obligations.
Maintain board approvals, entity records, authority matrices, and delegations of authority across project and holding companies.
Review insurance requirements and contractual risk allocation across financing, O&M, asset management, and EPC agreements.
Draft, implement, and embed group compliance programs in accordance with guidance from group headquarters in Israel, including securities law, competition law, privacy law, and anti-bribery and anti-corruption programs.
Coordinate with headquarters’ legal department in Israel and implement parent company and group decisions and directives.
Report and escalate legal matters to the legal department in Israel and obtain required approvals from authorized Israeli approvers for material and reserved matters under group policies and delegations of authority.
Align local corporate governance, approval processes, and delegations of authority with group policies, subject to applicable U.S. law and regulation.
Manage outside counsel, legal budgets, and complex commercial disputes.