Senior Legal Counsel - Projects

Country United States / US City HOUSTON Workplace location HOUSTON-LOUISIANA STREET(USA) Employer company TotalEnergies American Services, Inc. Domain Legal Affairs Type of contract Regular position Experience Minimum 6 years

Context & Environment

Work cooperatively in a cross-functional setting providing excellent legal advice and solutions while collaborating with colleagues, supervising and training junior team members, and realizing potential for innovation and improvements.

• Delivering high quality legal services to each branch of the TotalEnergies Company in the US within the established time and budget while mitigating the client’s legal risk.
• Working collaboratively with the other functional legal teams in support of excellent legal service and equitable allocation of work over time among the legal service providers.

Activities

Provide legal and transactional support (both directly and by supervising junior team members) to develop and finance the Projects, including: 

• Advise on all aspects of the Projects from site control through development and construction to commercial operation and financing.
• Negotiate, draft and review both simple and complex commercial contracts, including, but not limited to: 
  • NDAs, consulting agreements, acquisition agreements, strategic cooperation and joint venture agreements, real property agreements, interconnection agreements, power purchase agreements (PPAs) and other offtake agreements, feedstock agreements, equipment supply agreements, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements, debt and tax equity financing agreements, tax credit transfer agreements and operation and maintenance agreements.
• Advise clients and colleagues in relation to Federal and State energy regulatory matters, specifically FERC, ERCOT and PJM, including the interconnection process, obtaining the necessary approvals and registration, and compliance with matters such as CEII.
• Advise on legal and regulatory issues and compliance (including in relation to tax credits and permitting), perform research and oversee the performance of research by junior team members in relation to such regulatory issues, and support the commercial team in developing and maintaining policies and procedures and monitoring to ensure compliance.
• Support M&A activities by performing due diligence on target Projects and assisting with partial and complete sell downs of Projects.
• Manage day-to-day legal requests from the Project’s commercial teams.
• Advise senior management and subordinates on all legal, regulatory, policy, and comm