Senior Corporate Counsel: M&A, Governance & Financing

Generate; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Generate Capital seeks a Senior Counsel, Corporate to lead a broad portfolio of corporate matters, offering practical, commercially grounded advice to executives and cross-functional leaders. You will steer governance, stockholder issues, and strategic transactions, while partnering with multiple teams on financing and policy frameworks.

The role emphasizes hands-on execution, collaboration with outside counsel, and building scalable processes to support the fast-moving energy infrastructure

Qualifications

• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and project-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior legal partner on corporate matters, providing practical, commercially grounded advice to the executive team and cross-functional leaders.
• Advise on corporate governance matters for Generate and its subsidiaries, including board and committee materials, resolutions, approvals, and corporate records.
• Advise on stockholder and capitalization matters, including governance rights, equity issuances, reorganizations, and amendments to key corporate agreements.
• Lead and support strategic transactions, including corporate M&A, investments, joint ventures, restructurings, and asset sales, from diligence and structuring through negotiation and closing.
• Partner with Capital Formation, Capital Markets, Finance, Tax, Investment and Development teams on corporate financing and capital-raising transactions, including equity and debt financings.
• Help maintain and improve corporate policies, approval frameworks, signing authorities, and legal processes that enable disciplined and efficient decision-making.
• Manage outside counsel and other legal service providers with clear accountability for scope, quality, timing, and cost.
• Support the broader legal team on complex or time-sensitive matters and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing department.

Skills

Negotiation

Drafting

Project management

Education

J.D. from accredited law school

Job description

Generate Capital seeks a Senior Counsel, Corporate to lead a broad portfolio of corporate matters, offering practical, commercially grounded advice to executives and cross-functional leaders. You will steer governance, stockholder issues, and strategic transactions, while partnering with multiple teams on financing and policy frameworks.

The role emphasizes hands-on execution, collaboration with outside counsel, and building scalable processes to support the fast-moving energy infrastructure