Senior Associate - Legal

Candi Solar; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 1,116,000 - 1,674,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic working environment

Hybrid working options

Opportunity for professional growth

Job summary

A renewable energy company is seeking an in-house lawyer to drive the solar revolution, primarily focused on projects in India but with global opportunities. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in law, preferably with a background in solar or project finance. Responsibilities include preparing transaction documentation, managing large transactions, and ensuring legal compliance. This role offers a dynamic work culture, emphasizing innovation and team collaboration while contributing to vital social impacts.

Qualifications

• Experience in contracts and transactions, ideally in solar or infrastructure finance.
• Ability to translate commercial matters into legal terms.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and negotiate transaction documentation with global parties.
• Enhance Candi’s suite of legal templates for consistency.
• Manage larger transactions and liaise with external legal counsels.

Skills

Excellent legal academic credentials

Outstanding negotiations skills

Strong communication

Entrepreneurial spirit

Proficiency in English

Education

Qualified lawyer in India

5+ years' experience in law

Tools

Contract Lifecycle Management tools

Microsoft Office

Google Suite

Job description

Company Profile

Candi is a dedicated PV focused renewable energy company for businesses across Asia and Africa. We bring together international capital, through our Swiss-based platform, and local expertise in order to provide a unique offering to this unserved sector. In doing so, candi aims to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets. www.candi.solar

Job Summary

The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic in-house lawyer who will help Candi to lead the revolution of solar. The successful applicant will be working predominantly India-focused, however, there will be opportunities to work on projects globally across South Africa, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the other jurisdictions in which Candi will operate in the future. Given that Candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.

Job Responsibilities

Specifically, the job requires assisting with taking ownership of the following:

• Preparing, reviewing, and negotiating and executing transaction documentation with external parties globally, whether related to the projects candi develops (offtake contracts and other project documents) or related to the funding candi raises (financing and security documents)
• Enhancing and further developing Candi’s in-house suite of template legal documents used across our transactions, with a view to ensuring consistency between all templates and keeping the templates aligned with Candi’s latest product offering and market standards
• Execution of transaction documentation, including all associated execution logistics (stamp, resolutions, notices, conditions precedent, etc)
• Supporting the integration of Candi’s legal documentation (both templates and existing contracts) into a Contract Lifecycle Management tool to serve the needs of the Business and Asset Management
• Assisting with the management of larger transactions, coordinating stakeholders and processes in order to bring deals to a successful close
• Liaising with external legal counsels across jurisdictions
• Keeping up to date with legal and industry developments, particularly in the Indian renewable energy, open-access and C&I solar regulatory landscape, networking with other financiers or law firms in the market
• Helping to drive innovation in new product structures in the market

Location

Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore, Mohali or Pune (combined with working from home)

Hours

Full time.

Job Requirements

• Excellent legal academic credentials
• Qualified lawyer in India
• 5+ years’ experience in a law firm or as in-house counsel working on contracts and transactions - ideally with significant experience in solar or other kinds of project / infrastructure finance. Experience with Engineering Procurement and Construction contracts, lease agreements, and open-access transactions is strongly preferred.
• Outstanding negotiations skills - a track record of successfully negotiating and executing complex deals and of building consensus with various transaction stakeholders
• A capacity to translate economics or commercial matters into legal documents and vice versa
• Being a strong communicator with an ability to explain complex legal matters in simple terms
• Being a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit
• Thriving in a fast-paced environment and having an ability to work towards and hit KPIs as well as to juggle multiple transactions and projects at the same time
• Being very comfortable working in the digital realm, using tools such as Microsoft Office / Google suite / Contract Lifecycle Management tools and other remote working tools
• Excellent written and spoken English required, additional languages are a plus

Working Culture

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment:

• Less is more

• Empathy before ego

• Authenticity, no matter what

• Get it done as one

• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
• candi is an equal opportunities employer.

Candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where hybrid working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.