Legal Counsel, Real Estate and Development (Data Centers & Energy Infrastructure)

Hut 8 • Miami, FL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Legal Counsel (Real Estate & Development) provides legal support across the company’s data center and energy infrastructure portfolio. This is a hands-on, high-volume role focused on the early stages of development, including site control, due diligence, and deal execution. The position works directly with development, operations, asset management, energy origination, and strategic financing teams as their primary legal counterpart.

The role drafts, reviews, and negotiates a broad range of development, real estate, construction, procurement, financing, power, and ancillary agreements; supports project finance and real estate loan transactions; manages documentation for data center and energy infrastructure projects; and coordinates legal diligence with outside counsel and other specialists. The position is based in the company’s corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements

• Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. state and membership in good standing of one U.S. bar.
• At least 3 years of experience in commercial real estate, infrastructure, or energy law, focused on land acquisition, site control, and transactional diligence.
• Proven track record drafting and negotiating front-end real estate documents, including letters of intent, purchase options, purchase and sale agreements, easements, and access agreements.
• Experience coordinating with title companies, surveyors, and environmental consultants on large-scale land or infrastructure transactions.
• Rigorous, detail-oriented approach to reviewing title, survey, environmental, and zoning reports for large-scale infrastructure or energy projects.
• Ability to manage high-volume document workflows, track critical deadlines, and maintain version control across simultaneous site acquisitions.
• Strategic, practical, business-oriented approach to legal issues.
• Ability to work directly with non-legal teams and explain complex legal issues in clear, commercially useful terms.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deal-intensive environment and take ownership of workstreams through closing.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with project finance or real estate loan transactions.
• Experience in data center, energy, or digital infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate letters of intent, land options, purchase agreements, easements, access agreements, tax abatement agreements, shared facilities agreements, construction contracts, long-lead equipment procurement agreements, costs-in-aid-of-construction agreements, interconnection agreements, and other ancillary development documents.
• Provide legal support on project finance and real estate loan transactions, including loan documents, infrastructure agreements, power-related agreements, and leases with data center end users.
• Manage the documentation lifecycle for data center development and energy infrastructure projects, ensuring agreements are executed accurately and align with company objectives.
• Serve as the primary legal liaison for development, operations, asset management, energy origination, and strategic financing teams.
• Coordinate with outside counsel, title agents, surveyors, and environmental consultants to vet sites and prepare them for commercialization.
• Conduct and coordinate legal due diligence, including review of title commitments, ALTA surveys, environmental reports, and zoning analyses.
• Manage high-volume document workflows, critical deadlines, and version control across multiple simultaneous site acquisitions.
• Translate complex legal issues into clear guidance to inform commercial decisions and take ownership of workstreams from first draft through closing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed