Associate General Counsel

About Altus Power

Altus Power , based in Stamford, Connecticut, is the leading commercial-scale provider of clean electric power, serving its commercial, public sector and community solar customers with end-to-end solutions. Altus Power originates, develops, owns and operates locally sited solar generation, energy storage and charging infrastructure across the nation. Altus Power has over 1 gigawatt of solar assets across 26 states and is growing. These projects service commercial, industrial, public sector and community solar customers.

Since the Company’s formation in 2009, Altus has established itself as a leader in building-sited clean energy across the United States. Altus is affiliated with TPG Rise Climate, the dedicated climate investing platform of TPG, a leading global alternative asset management firm. Altus also has a long-standing strategic partnership with Blackstone, which is the largest owner of commercial real estate globally, with approximately 1.2 billion square feet of commercial real estate globally.

About the Position

Altus Power is currently seeking a highly motivated individual with the skills, experience, and aptitude to join our lean and efficient Legal team as Associate General Counsel. The candidate will report to our Chief Legal Officer and will act as a key resource and primary point of contact for our business teams. The candidate should have experience handling corporate transactional matters. Preferably, you should be familiar with renewable energy, real estate, environmental matters, and related matters.

The successful candidate would be responsible for executing, reviewing and negotiating contracts and on development projects and operating projects, which include commercial building roof leases, ground leases, power purchase agreements, EPC and subcontractor agreements, equipment supply agreements, and purchase and sale agreements. The candidate will be working closely with the development, origination, structuring and customer teams to manage solar transactions, including review of such documents for due diligence and execute and close on solar transactions.

Responsibilities :

• Work as part of a cross-functional team delivering legal advice to the various business teams on transactional matters, clean energy agreements, corporate organizational and corporate structure matters, and company policies.
• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of agreements, including lease agreements, power purchase agreements, membership interest purchase agreements, credit agreements, subscriber agreements, development agreements, consulting agreements, vendor contracts, O&M contracts, EPC contracts, and other complex commercial agreements.
• Perform due diligence in connection with solar transactions in areas such as permitting, site control, etc. and assist in closings of such solar transactions and financing transactions, such as credit agreements and tax equity partnership agreements.
• Stay up to date on relevant federal and state energy and solar program rules and regulations and other applicable areas.
• Build and maintain scalable and effective processes for providing legal input to the business to develop procedures related to vendor management, asset management, data privacy and other related areas.

Requirements :

Work Life at Altus

Our team is the asset we are most proud of. We aim to create a positive work-life balance and enjoy working together in the office.

Here are a few of the benefits we offer :

Altus is unequivocally committed to the principles of equal employment.