Project Development | Counsel

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Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

About Norton Rose Fulbright: Our projects practice is one of the largest in the world, with over 350 project and project finance lawyers located across our 50+ offices. We represent lenders, sponsors, developers, institutional investors, contractors, operators, and government entities in major domestic and cross-border renewable energy projects and financings. With a team of over 4,000 lawyers based in more than 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East, we offer a global perspective and a comprehensive service to clients. Our respected lawyers leverage their experience to find innovative solutions for complex issues, offering commercial and practical approaches to M&A, debt and equity financing transactions. This ensures timely and cost-effective project completion. Recognized annually for our pioneering work in first-in-jurisdiction and first-in-technology renewable energy projects, we are market leaders in developing creative legal solutions to difficult business problems. Our deep understanding of structures, risk profiles, and regulatory regimes is crucial to successfully closing complex and groundbreaking renewable energy transactions globally.

Job Summary: Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Counsel or Senior Counsel with 4+ years of experience in construction, procurement, and project development. The ideal candidate will have a background in project development within the renewable energy or oil & gas sectors, or extensive construction experience, particularly with large-scale infrastructure projects. Experience should include negotiating engineering, procurement, and construction agreements, operations and maintenance agreements, equipment procurement agreements, and other development agreements. This role provides an opportunity to work on high-profile projects in renewable energy, energy storage, and power generation technologies. Collaborating with our global team, you will engage in some of the most innovative, complex, and challenging projects worldwide. Attorneys in this role may focus exclusively on renewable energy and energy transition transactions, if desired, or participate in a broader range of energy and infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of renewable and conventional energy projects, including wind, solar, LNG, and nuclear.
• Oversee engineering, procurement and construction agreements, equipment procurement agreements and other development contracts.
• Negotiate and draft engineering, procurement, and construction agreements.
• Stay updated on industry trends and changes in project development and finance law
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including clients and colleagues in various specialty areas such as tax, regulatory, and real estate

Additional Skills:

• Representative experience with clients in the renewable energy market, on matters including project development (including offtake, procurement and construction) and/or project finance specific transactions is helpful
• Law firm project finance experience, preferably in a sophisticated national law firm environment

Location: This position may be based in any of our US offices (Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Antonio, San Francisco, St. Louis, or Washington, DC). Applicants should indicate their office(s) of interest in their application.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Exposure to a diverse range of high-profile clients and projects.
• Collaborating across our global team, we act on some of the most innovative, complex, and challenging projects in the world. Over the past five years, we have closed 470 project finance transactions globally, totaling over US$278 billion – the most of any law firm by deal volume (IJGlobal Q1, 2024).

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