Legal Counsel, Intersect
Head of Development & Real Estate Legal
$420-440k
OTE
+Equity. OTE is base salary + bonus
More information about location
Clean energy company
Be an early applicant
Clean energy company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$420-440k
OTE
+Equity. OTE is base salary + bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To preserve our planet for future generations through low-carbon energy and infrastructure solutions.
Role
Who you are
- J.D. from accredited law school and current license to practice
- Experience negotiating various agreements in the renewables energy industry
- Ability to analyze complex issues and advise internal business partners appropriately
- Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment, managing more than one project at a time
- Ability to handle self under pressure, work independently and follow through on tasks to completion in a timely manner
- Prior experience managing lawyers and paralegals
What the job involves
- We are looking for Legal Counsel, Head of Development & Real Estate Legal to join our dynamic, friendly and innovative Legal team
- This position will report directly to the General Counsel and will engage, interact and communicate with all functional teams across the organization, including all of the Legal Team
- As the lead in-house development and real estate attorney, provide and otherwise oversee all strategic development and real estate issues for project finance and M&A transactions, including conducting and responding to due diligence inquiries and drafting, reviewing and managing development and real estate closing deliverables
- Oversee the real estate team’s review of title commitments, title proformas, title policies and surveys, and provide analyses, support and supervision for title curative work in connection with project finance, construction and/or operation
- Manage and oversee all legal development issues requested by the development team for all aspects of project development, including project design, site control, permitting, regulatory, real estate and interconnection
- Oversee, draft, maintain and administer the general processes and policies regarding site access to the company’s projects
- Interface with Google energy and real estate attorneys on development and real estate issues
- Engage with internal executives, internal risk committee, and external third parties and stakeholders, in support of approving and executing development transactions and key contracts
- Manage and develop in-house development and real estate legal teams
- Manage outside development and real estate legal counsel, to support development and real estate transactions and contract negotiations
- Have an entrepreneurial attitude towards development, problem solving and related project support functions
- Participate in other legal tasks of the broader legal team as requested
Our take
Intersect is expanding access to clean electricity to help drive broad-based decarbonization. The company develops some of the world's largest clean energy resources and delivers these low-carbon solutions to customers around the globe.
Intersect is redefining what it means to be a clean power developer by constantly looking at new industries that it could vertically integrate into, to get closer to its goal of deep decarbonization. The company was born from innovation, conceived as an alternative to the traditional selling of electricity under long term PPA, which is demonstrative of the company’s determination to challenge the status quo and approach projects at scale without destroying value.
Excitingly, Intersect partnered with Google and TPG Rise Climate (TPG) in 2025 to drive the expansion of renewable power and storage solutions for data centers across the US. This collaboration, and the subsequent $4.75 billion sale of Intersect to Google, will deliver gigawatts of new capacity and catalyze a $20B investment in renewable energy infrastructure by the decade's end. With its first co-located clean energy project already in the works and expected to be operation by 2026, Intersect is very much paving the way for a sustainable future in the data center industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
91% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Greenway, Beaverton, OR
Leadership
Sheldon Kimber
(Founder & CEO)Previously acted as COO for Recurrent Energy. Also spent 9 years at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business as a Lecturer.
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