The Role

You will be the lead lawyer for one or more portfolios of solar and/or BESS projects from the moment those projects enter the Lydian pipeline until those projects exit, paired with project team(s) comprised of highly-skilled leads from each of the development, construction and capital markets groups. Each project team is supported by a group of internal subject-matter experts (policy/regulatory, engineering, offtake origination, procurement, asset management, accounting and more), and a group of external consultants managed by the core project team (including local and national counsel, which you will manage).

For each of your projects, you will therefore be responsible for - you will "own":

1. M&A - negotiation and diligence of the project acquisition, including:
   1. LOI drafting/negotiation
   2. Sourcing/engagement of local/specialist counsel
   3. Managing local and national counsel through the process, to a budget that you help determine
   4. MIPA/APA negotiation
   5. Oversight of all legal due diligence (mostly performed by outside counsel, but we expect you to get in the weeds and understand the issues - you'll be the one answering questions at Investment Committee)
2. Development - support the development team from acquisition close until financial close, including:
   1. Revenue contract negotiation
   2. Material pre-operational regulatory filings
   3. Real estate/entitlement cleanup
3. Procurement - support the procurement team to execute POs for key equipment (typically based on extant MSAs that do not require heavy lift from legal to contract under)
4. Construction - support the execution team (we are our own EPC) to execute the prime engineering, procurement and construction agreement as well as key construction sub-contracts (typically based on templates and extant relationships)
5. Project Finance - lead the negotiation and execution of some/all of the following:
   1. Tax credit insurance
   2. Tax credit sale documentation
   3. Construction debt
   4. Permanent debt
   5. Traditional tax equity or preferred equity structures
6. Operational Period - support the asset management team to execute:
   1. Asset management agreements (we are our own AM provider)
   2. O&M agreements with repeat-play third-party providers
   3. Other key operational-period contracts
   4. Key regulatory filings/submissions (NERC, MBR, etc.)
7. Project Monetization - lead the negotiation and execution of some/all of the following:
   1. LOI drafting/negotiation
   2. MIPA negotiation
   3. Minority/majority equity sale documentation
   4. Back-leverage/portfolio/Holdco debt

In each case, Lydian expects you to act as the intermediary between internal commercial counterparts and outside legal, between external counterparts and internal leads, and among outside counsel. External counsel will do the heavy-lift drafting, especially for significant transactions under your purview, but you will be responsible for the outcome of their work and for all of the myriad day-to-day legal activities in support of each of your projects that do not rise to the level of engaging outside counsel.

This role reports to the General Counsel.

Who Will Excel in This Role

Put simply: Lydian wants someone who "wants the ball" in this role. Lydian wants someone with a commercial head on their shoulders who will help drive commercial activity and transaction closings, not someone who waits to be asked for "legal's view". If you want a seat at the table and responsibility, quickly, this job is for you. If you want to work with other skilled, motivated industry experts who will push you to grow and progress in your career, this job is for you. If you want to be on the cutting edge of energy development and finance in a highly complicated time for the industry, this job is for you.

Lydian wants someone who can come in and take on work immediately with limited oversight, but significant support. That means you need to have successfully performed and executed on much/most of the legal work listed above before you arrive. The right candidate should expect to learn a lot and significantly grow their career while here, but this is not the right time for the company or the role for you to learn on the job. You will have a highly skilled/experienced internal legal team, and a significant specialist/heavy-lift external team to support you, but no one to hold your hand.

Finally: Lydian needs someone with a high level of intellectual curiosity in this role, who is comfortable asking dumb questions in a crowded room if they aren't sure of the answer. This industry is complex, this company is complex, and it doesn't work for Lydian employees to just stare at what is on their desks. We need people who want to understand how the other business functions operate, what our counterparties care about, what drives our investors and lenders, what causes deals or projects to succeed or fail.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you embody the following key attributes:

• 7-9 years (for Senior Counsel) or 5-6 years (for Counsel) of post admission experience working within the renewable industry coming from a law firm with an energy practice group and/or solar or energy storage development company;
• Deep expertise in most (for Senior Counsel) or many (for Counsel) of the key workstreams listed above;
• Sound understanding of the areas above which are not your "subject matter expertise" areas;
• Seasoned transactional lawyer and advocate with a deep understanding of contract fundamentals;
• Sound commercial awareness and desire to understand what drives commercial decisionmaking;
• Intellectual curiosity and interest in the energy industry;
• Comfortable with discomfort and ability to execute and protect the company in challenging circumstances (not every contract or deal is perfect, but we have to do deals to make money);
• Skilled at identifying and advising on risk mitigation strategies in energy projects;
• Robust awareness (albeit not expertise) of regulatory elements of US power markets (e.g. FERC, NERC, etc.);
• Experience in an in-house legal department in a company or organization is a significant plus;
• Persuasive and effective communicator and negotiator with internal and external business clients and, in particular, one who seamlessly translates complex concepts into compelling advocacy for non-legal audiences.