Job Description:
Manage legal risks, ensure compliance with laws and regulations, and protect the company's interests in a highly regulated and complex industry. Provides support and advice to the business's commercial teams and all the central support functions.
Responsibilities- Prepare contract assessments, redlines, recommendations and summary
- Assist with review, draft, and negotiation of confidentiality agreements, vendor and consulting agreements, assignments and amendments, guaranties, and other similar agreements
- Review master trading agreements of every sort in accordance with department guidelines and subject to senior lawyer oversight where required.
- Provide timely, technically accurate and commercially aware legal advice to the company's trading and origination teams
- Ensure that all legal risks are outlined for the business and advise on the legal process as required, including how best to mitigate such risks.
- Support Compliance and Regulatory affairs as required
Requirements & Qualifications- A minimum of 1year post qualified experience
- Licensed to practice law in relevant jurisdiction - Texas and New York
- Previous transactional law experience required
- Experience with wholesale power and gas contracts (NAESB, EEI, and ISDA) and structured energy transactions, highly preferred
- Advanced MS Office Suite, specifically Excel
