Renewables Legal Counsel – Geneva | M&A & Contracts (3-6m)

Interim Legal AG; Genf; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & inclusion in the workplace

Growth opportunities

Professional network exposure

Competitive Swiss salary

Job summary

Interim Legal AG is seeking a Legal Counsel in Geneva to support a renewable energy developer during a period of peak project activity. The role covers commercial contracting, land and development agreements, and cross-border transactions across the UK, Germany and France.

Fluency in English is essential, with French or German an advantage. This is a 3–6 month engagement with strong potential to extend, on-site in Geneva.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with several years of in-house or law firm experience in commercial contracting.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate routine commercial contracts, including NDAs, consultancy, contractor and service agreements.
• Support landowner arrangements for renewables, battery storage and data centre sites, including options, leases, easements, wayleaves and heads of terms.
• Prepare and negotiate agreements with technical, commercial and legal advisers and partners, including engagement letters, scopes of work and cost controls.
• Prepare and review power purchase agreement proposals, term sheets and related offtake or supply arrangements, coordinating pricing and risk allocation with the commercial team.
• Support joint venture and co-development discussions at an early stage, including term sheets, exclusivity letters, memoranda of understanding and cooperation agreements.
• Participate in strategic projects such as M&A, divestment and financing processes, including data rooms, due diligence, transaction documents, signing and closing checklists.
• Instruct and manage external counsel in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
• Keep contract trackers, templates and approval workflows current, review intragroup arrangements with finance and handle ad hoc legal questions from the development, land and commercial teams.
• Help set up playbooks for recurring work streams and use AI tools to improve the efficiency of the legal function.

Skills

English fluency

Commercial contracting

Land & development agreements

External counsel management

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Interim Legal AG is seeking a Legal Counsel in Geneva to support a renewable energy developer during a period of peak project activity. The role covers commercial contracting, land and development agreements, and cross-border transactions across the UK, Germany and France.

Fluency in English is essential, with French or German an advantage. This is a 3–6 month engagement with strong potential to extend, on-site in Geneva.