About the Role
Join an AmLaw 100 client's energy and climate solutions platform as a senior associate or counsel. This sponsor-facing tax role is central to clean energy financing, focusing on tax equity partnership deals, financing structures, tax credit transactions, and federal tax advice across a wide range of energy infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage tax-driven energy transactions from structuring through closing.
- Advise developers, sponsors, and financing parties on tax equity and transferable credit deals.
- Collaborate with lawyers across corporate, debt, securitization, and project finance teams on clean energy matters.
Requirements
- 6+ years of tax equity transactional experience at a national law firm.
- Strong command of partnership flip transactions, inverted leases, sale-leasebacks, safe harbor structures, tax credit transfers, and written federal tax advice.
- Sponsor-side experience is preferred, but investor-side lawyers looking to pivot are also encouraged to apply.
Skills
- Tax equity transactional experience
- Partnership flip transactions
- Inverted leases
- Sale-leasebacks
- Safe harbor structures
- Tax credit transfers
- Federal tax advice
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
- Washington, DC
- Los Angeles
- Seattle
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
- Counsel
Salary/Compensations
- $390,000 to $435,000
Benefits
- Discretionary merit bonus eligibility
- Formal professional development resources
- Career coaching resources
About the Company
- An AmLaw 100 client with a nationally recognized renewables and energy transition practice.
- The practice has meaningful depth in project finance, tax credit transactions, and emerging climate technologies.
- The team has significant market presence, recognized by Chambers in Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy and Tax.
- The firm has a broad platform with 39 geography-specific Chambers USA practice rankings in 2025.
- The group has a track record in early clean energy tax credit transfer work.
