Junior Legal Counsel advising AlgaeCal, a consumer - health eCommerce company, on contracts, regulatory compliance, brands, and business risk. Supporting responsible growth through practical legal solutions.
About the role
- Assistant General Counsel leading tax equity, tax credit, and debt transactions. Crux finances clean and critical energy infrastructure through capital, advisory, and technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead legal workstreams for tax equity, preferred equity, and transferable tax credit transactions from term sheet through closing
- Draft and negotiate LLC agreements, equity capital contribution agreements, tax credit transfer and forward purchase agreements, guaranties, and closing deliverables
- Drive transaction checklists, timelines, and closings
- Support construction, bridge, back-leverage, and warehouse debt financings, including credit agreements, intercreditor and forbearance arrangements, borrowing base and draw mechanics, and lender consents
- Conduct legal diligence on offtake, EPC and supply, interconnection, real estate, permits, tax credit qualification, insurance, and sponsor/counterparty matters
- Distill diligence findings into risks and mitigants for investment committee materials
- Handle post-closing funding conditions, amendments, consents, waivers, and portfolio reporting
- Scope and supervise outside counsel and manage legal fees
- Support corporate financings, strategic transactions, joint ventures, entity formation and maintenance, governance, regulatory matters, intellectual property, and commercial agreements
- Maintain and improve forms, playbooks, checklists, and closing sets
- Develop, deploy, assess, and refine AI tools for diligence, drafting, document comparison, closing, and portfolio management
- Partner with Investments, Coverage, Debt Advisory, Portfolio Management, Legal Innovation, Operations, Product, Engineering, and Compliance teams
- Translate legal issues into commercial terms and identify regulatory considerations involving broker-dealer and investment adviser affiliates
Requirements
- 3–6 years of transactional experience, with significant experience in projects, energy, or infrastructure finance at a leading law firm
- Hands-on experience with tax equity, transferable tax credit transactions, and debt financings for renewable energy and infrastructure projects
- Ability to draft from a term sheet, negotiate a full document set, and drive transactions to closing with limited supervision
- Working fluency in federal energy tax credit framework Sections 45, 48, 45Y, 48E, 45X, and 6418
- Experience with qualification, bonus adders, and recapture risk, and judgment to involve tax counsel
- Demonstrated practical experience using AI in legal practice, including adopting or building tools and workflows
- Ownership, pragmatic risk-weighted judgment, and appropriate escalation
- Clear written and verbal communication with lawyers and non-lawyers
- Ability to manage several transactions simultaneously and work effectively amid pace and ambiguity
- JD and admission in good standing to the bar of at least one U.S. state; New York or DC preferred
- Eligibility for in-house registration where required
Benefits
- Work from anywhere in the US and Canada, or optional offices in DC, NYC, Denver, and SF
- Regular team offsites twice a year
- 100% employee healthcare premium coverage; 80% dependent subsidy
- 100% employee dental and vision premium coverage; 80% dependent coverage
- Family forming and fertility support
- 16 weeks parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
- 10 company holidays per year
- 20 days paid time off per year
- 401(k) account fees supported by Crux
- Discretionary annual performance bonus
- Stock options in a rapidly growing company
- High-growth, high-ownership culture
- Access to cutting-edge AI and technology work
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