Senior Corporate Counsel

COMPANY OVERVIEW

174 Power Global, headquartered in Irvine, California, a member of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm that is among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. 174 Power Global designs, builds and manages renewable energy solutions. The company brings a decade of global leadership in renewable energy to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes, and partnerships to deliver utility-grade energy solutions customized for local energy markets. 174 Power Global offers the full spectrum of energy solutions – from power plant development, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. With proven capabilities across the renewable energy value chain, 174 Power Global minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their investment in renewable energy.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Senior Corporate Counsel will be a member of the in-house legal group that supports the development team during the company’s expansion and growth. The Senior Corporate Counsel is responsible for providing legal expertise in the acquisition, development, financing and sale of solar energy and energy storage projects. The Senior Corporate Counsel will be a part of a dynamic, collaborative team and work closely with other departments within the company (such as project development, permitting, business development, engineering, and construction). This position reports to the General Counsel or another senior leader. This position is expected to travel up to 10%.

Our corporate offices are located in Houston, TX and Irvine, CA. While we prefer local candidates, we are open to allowing the right candidate to work remotely if they are not local to the Houston, TX area. Willing to travel up to 10%.

• Negotiate, review, and manage all legal aspects of project acquisition, development, financing, and sales
• Manage outside counsel assisting on all aspects of the Company’s business
• Provide support to due diligence and project development related issues, including PPA, Interconnection, real estate, environmental, permitting, and regulatory
• Draft and review consulting agreements, services agreements, and other general corporate legal documents as needed
• Coordinate efforts with other internal teams to propose appropriate risk management, identify critical project risk issues and make recommendations and provide summation of documents for execution
• Facilitate working with Hanwha affiliates
• All other duties as assigned by the General Counsel

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law program and active member of the Bar
• Minimum of 5 years of experience
• Minimum of 3 years of significant experience in infrastructure project development
• Strongly preferred: experience drafting and negotiating utility-scale PPAs
• Direct experience with project financing concepts and terms
• Willingness to travel up to 10%
• Strong team player
• High degree of professionalism and conduct at all times
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multi-task, set priorities, meet deadlines
• Excellent academic and work credentials
• Microsoft office suite proficiency
• Outstanding sense of humor highly encouraged

Attention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.

174 Power Global provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

www.174powerglobal.com.