Assistant General Counsel

About ContourGlobal

ContourGlobal, a KKR company, is an established Independent Power Producer (IPP) focused on developing, acquiring, and operating electricity generation and storage assets across Europe, North and South America, with a presence in Africa and Asia. The company currently manages 6 GW of installed capacity across multiple technologies and asset classes, with an additional 1.3 MW of renewables under construction and nearly 12 GW under development.

ContourGlobal is accelerating the decarbonization of its portfolio and evolving into a predominantly renewable IPP, supported by long- term contracts and innovative PPAs coupled with energy management solutions that deliver value beyond market standards. As a symbol of its ongoing transformation and growth, the company recently unveiled a new brand identity, celebrating 20 years of history and embracing The Right Power Forward as its guiding purpose.

Job Summary

As Assistant General Counsel, you will join our collaborative and commercially savvy Legal team to manage risk and scale the business. In this role, the AGC will build strong partnerships with our business and specialist colleagues and advise them on acquisitions, development, partnerships, financing, and operations of utility-scale stand-alone storage, hybrid storage, and solar, wind, and natural gas generation projects, as well as general corporate and regulatory matters. Counsel will engage directly with the project development,  mergers & acquisitions, structured financing, commercial contracting, operations, asset management, engineering & construction, and procurement teams in their day-to-day functions.

The Assistant General Counsel will report to the US Division General Counsel (USGC)

Key Responsibilities:

Manage and/or support:

• early-mid stage development of renewable and storage projects to construction, while strategizing risks and opportunities, mindful of the changing regulatory environment (e.g. interconnection, PILOTs, permits, environmental aspects, real property)
• M&A transactions through drafting, preparing mark-ups and negotiating share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, and asset transfer agreements, letters of intent, memorandums of understanding, non-binding and binding offers, and escrow agreements.
• financing transactions through reviewing, providing comments and negotiating term sheets, project or financing agreements, security documents and other financing documents
• contracts and negotiation for the supply of equipment, goods and services to our power projects, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC), operation & maintenance (O&M), asset management, MSAs, etc., mindful of elements of tax credit eligibility (e.g. FEOC, PWA, domestic content)

• complex energy-related agreements, through drafting, preparing mark-ups and negotiating power purchase agreements, hedging agreements, route-to-market, RECs sales for the CG US business
• due diligence activities, revising non-disclosure agreement, engagement letters from advisors, release and reliance letters from advisors, and other ancillary agreements
• improving precedent and form agreements over time, as appropriate 
• legal advice to the business on issues related to the interpretation of legal provisions (including in relation to execution, amendment, termination, assignment, waiver, etc.) of contracts and for all matters having legal implications. Proactively engage with business functions and ascertain when legal advice is necessary across all areas. Coordinate internal procedures for the review and approval of documents
• additional policy priorities in areas relevant to energy storage, renewable power, and evolving business development needs
• dispute resolution matters, as needed, related to CG US business
• in the management of outside counsel
• on any corporate housekeeping or reporting activities to CG management and CG’s stakeholders

 

• Work autonomously to identify, prioritize, and address commercial, regulatory and legislative hurdles across markets in order to move transactions and priorities forward

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