Senior Counsel, Private Equity

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
225K-250K Annually
Senior level
Energy • Utilities
The Role
Lead and support mergers, acquisitions, financings, refinancings, and other corporate transactions for LS Power’s private equity team. Responsibilities include due diligence, negotiating transaction documents, investment committee materials, closing and post-closing integration, and collaboration with finance, tax, regulatory, accounting, asset management, energy management, and investor relations teams.
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Overview

About LS Power:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy expansion solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through its transmission business, LS Power Grid, the company has built 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission systems with another 375+ miles currently in construction or development. LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are meeting the growing needs of the energy expansion, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $89 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.


Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership


Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

 

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.


Compensation

The salary for this role is $225,000 - $250,000. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in New York.  This salary range may also be modified in the future.


About the Role:

An experienced and highly motivated self-starter to assist and lead various transactions in mergers and acquisitions and financings for LS Power’s private equity team. You will have both a meaningful role and an opportunity to develop professionally with the support of collaborative and experienced peers. You will support our M&A, financing and other corporate development activities.   

Responsibilities

 What you will do:

  • Lead mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions at all stages, including bids, performing due diligence, drafting and negotiating term sheets and definitive transaction documentation, and supporting closing transactions and post-closing integration, including documentation relating to management teams.
  • Assist in preparation of M&A related investment committee meeting materials.
  • Lead financing activities relating to M&A transactions and refinancing of existing debt of portfolio companies.
  • Collaborate and build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including finance, tax, regulatory, accounting, asset and energy management and investor relations.
Qualifications

We want you on our team because you…

  • Have JD, with at least 10+ years of experience handling complex M&A, financing and other corporate transactions.
  • Are able to be the primary in-house attorney on M&A and other corporate transactions, including handling multiple transactions or projects simultaneously.
  • Are able to quickly assess business challenges, make timely, pragmatic recommendations under pressure and identify, prioritize and resolve issues quickly and independently while balancing legal risks against business interests.
  • Have excellent communication, project management, negotiation and drafting skills.
  • Have flexibility to assist the corporate legal team in its activities and its mission as needs arise.

Ideally, you also have

  • Energy/project finance and in-house experience

Skills Required

  • Juris Doctor degree
  • At least 10 years of experience handling complex mergers and acquisitions, financing, and other corporate transactions
  • Ability to serve as the primary in-house attorney on M&A and corporate transactions
  • Ability to manage multiple transactions or projects simultaneously
  • Ability to assess business challenges and provide timely, pragmatic recommendations under pressure
  • Ability to identify, prioritize, and independently resolve issues while balancing legal risks and business interests
  • Excellent communication, project management, negotiation, and drafting skills
  • Flexibility to assist the corporate legal team as business needs arise
  • Energy or project finance experience
  • In-house legal experience
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
493 Employees
Year Founded: 1990

What We Do

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 47,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, we have built 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission with 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or in development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $54 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

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