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About the Role
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, stockholder and capitalization matters, strategic transactions, and corporate financing. Help maintain and improve corporate policies and legal processes. Manage outside counsel and support the broader legal team.
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.
Requirements
- JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience.
- Strong corporate transactional experience developed through a leading law firm and/or an in-house legal team.
- Prior in-house experience is preferred but not required.
- Demonstrated experience leading or supporting M&A, strategic investments, joint ventures, and corporate financing transactions.
- Experience with power or digital infrastructure transactions is a plus.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and project-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and drive matters to resolution.
- Commercially minded and solutions-oriented.
- Judgment to distinguish material risks from manageable ones and communicate advice clearly.
- Comfort operating with significant autonomy while knowing when to escalate, seek input, or bring in specialized expertise.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust with senior leaders and partners across Finance, Tax, Capital Formation, Investment, Development, and Operations.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and handle both strategic matters and the detailed execution required to complete them well.
- Collaborative working style, intellectual honesty, and strong judgment under ambiguity.
- A genuine interest in Generate's mission and in supporting the development, financing, and operation of critical energy infrastructure.
Skills
- Corporate governance
- Board and stockholder matters
- Strategic transactions
- Corporate financing
- M&A
- Investments
- Joint ventures
- Restructurings
- Asset sales
- Equity and debt financings
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Project management
- Communication
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years
Education Level
- JD from an accredited law school
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $280,000
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Health care benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Paid days off (including sick leave, parental leave, and paid time off or vacation benefits)
About the Company
- Generate Capital is a leading investment platform that provides capital solutions for the next generation of infrastructure needed to address climate change.
Equal Opportunity
- Generate Capital is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or handicap, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.