Associate General Counsel, Americas

Growth For Impact; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful work

Growth opportunities

Climate impact

Supportive environment

Job summary

Growth For Impact seeks a senior legal advisor to guide business leaders on strategy, risk, and commercial decisions, and to lead regional legal operations in the Americas. You will drive improvements in processes, governance, and contract management, and oversee land acquisition work from option agreements through interconnection, permitting, to construction-ready status.

Draft, negotiate, and manage site control documents, including leases and easements, and handle financing agreements and

Qualifications

• Experience with renewable energy infrastructure, project finance, M&A and project contracts is preferred.
• Strong contract negotiation experience, particularly in real estate, financing, mergers and acquisitions, EPC, and supply.
• Experience managing and directing junior counsel or paralegals in contract tracking and compliance.
• Experience advising senior business leaders and managing complex workflows.
• Comfortable in a lean legal environment with high ownership and autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Advise business leaders on strategy, risk mitigation, and commercial decisions.
• Lead regional legal operations in Americas and align with global standards.
• Drive improvements in legal processes, workflow, governance, and contract management.
• Lead land acquisition work from option agreements through interconnection and permitting to construction-ready status.
• Draft, negotiate and manage site control documents including leases, easements, and related instruments.
• Structure land acquisition strategies with title review and coordination with title companies.
• Address zoning, permitting and other land use matters.
• Handle financing agreements including project finance transactions and security documents.
• Handle project contracts including EPC, O&M, equipment supply, and vendor contracts.
• Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents including purchase agreements and related documents.
• Manage legal due diligence for M&A and coordinate with outside counsel.
• Partner with development, finance, procurement, and asset management teams across the project lifecycle.
• Provide business-minded legal advice to support decision-making and risk management.
• Align legal strategy with business execution and timelines.
• Extract obligations, deadlines, and covenants and update compliance matrices across financing and EPC agreements.

Skills

Renewable energy

Project finance

M&A

Contract negotiation

Team leadership

Legal strategy

Stakeholder management

Job description

ROLE

• – Serve as a senior legal advisor to business leaders on strategy, risk mitigation, and commercial decision making.
• – Support the General Counsel, Americas in leading regional legal operations and ensuring alignment with global legal standards.
• – Drive improvements in legal processes, workflow improvement, governance frameworks, and contract management.
• – Lead the legal work underpinning land acquisition and site control — from initial option agreements through interconnection, permitting, and the transition of projects to construction-ready status.
• – Draft, negotiate, and manage the full suite of site control documents, including options to lease/purchase, ground leases, easements, memoranda of lease/option, non-disturbance and subordination agreements, and amendments and extensions throughout the development lifecycle.
• – Structure and document land acquisition strategies in partnership with the development team, including title and survey review, resolution of title defects, and coordination with title companies and surveyors.
• – Address zoning, permitting and other land use matters.
• — Handle a variety of financing agreements, as needed, including fluency with project finance transactions, including construction loans, tax equity, long-term debt, intercreditor agreements and security documentation.
• — Handle a variety of project contracts, as needed, including fluency with EPC, O&M, module/major equipment supply and strategic vendor contracts.
• — Handle other commercial agreements, as needed, including fluency with consulting agreements, NDAs, MSAs, and other ordinary course business agreements.
• — Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents, including purchase and sale agreements, membership interest purchase agreements and related ancillary documents.
• — Manage legal due diligence for M&A transactions and working with outside counsel on diligence memoranda and issue lists.
• — Partner with development, finance, procurement, and asset management teams across the project lifecycle.
• — Provide business-minded legal advice to support decision-making and risk management.
• — Align legal strategy with business execution and timelines.
• — Extracting obligations, deadlines, and covenants
• — Developing and updating compliance matrices across financing and EPC agreements
• — Ensure internal teams are alerted of upcoming deliveries and contractual obligations.

REQUIREMENTS

• – Experience with renewable energy infrastructure, project finance, M&A and project contracts is preferred.
• – Strong contract negotiation experience, particularly in real estate, financing, mergers and acquisitions, EPC, and supply.
• – Experience managing and directing junior counsel or paralegals in contract tracking and compliance.
• – Experience advising senior business leaders and managing complex workflows.
• – Comfortable in a lean legal environment with high ownership and autonomy.

BENEFITS

• – Opportunity to contribute to one of the most impactful industries.
• – Professional and personal growth.
• – Chance to make a real impact on climate change.
• – Dynamic and supportive environment.