Legal Counsel

About:

Karbone Inc. is an award-winning liquidity services provider for energy transition and environmental commodity markets. Since 2008, we have offered integrated and innovative revenue hedging, risk management, and market advisory solutions to a global suite of clients across energy markets. Our teams are proudly ranked first amongst their peers and are all dedicated toward our core mission of providing our clients and partners with the necessary market access, liquidity solutions, and commercial insight to help them succeed in the new energy transition.

About the Role:

We are seeking a motivated Legal Counsel to support our growing organizations across Karbone, Captona, and Noreva. This is a hands-on, business-facing role where you will work primarily with Karbone’s energy trading business, while also supporting project transactions, investments, and commercial matters across our sister companies. You will play an active role in enabling business growth, facilitating deal execution, and helping build scalable legal and operational processes across multiple lines of business.

Responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts, including master trading agreements, credit support arrangements, NDAs, and other commercial agreements.
• Identify and manage legal risks across trading, project, corporate, and investment activities, ensuring practical risk mitigation.
• Support project acquisitions, joint ventures, and new investments, providing practical legal guidance to business teams throughout transaction structuring and execution.
• Advise on regulatory and compliance matters relevant to energy markets, environmental commodities, and corporate operations.
• Serve as a strategic legal partner to enable business growth, deal execution, and operational efficiency across multiple lines of business.

Requirements:

• JD from an accredited law school and 3+ years of relevant legal experience.
• Experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing commercial contracts; experience in energy markets, M&A, or project finance is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with master trading agreements (ISDA, EEI) and regulatory frameworks for energy and derivatives markets (FERC, CFTC, Dodd-Frank, RTOs/ISOs) is preferred but not required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Strong judgement and ability to manage multiple priorities, and provide practical legal solutions in a fast-paced environment.

The anticipated salary for this position is expected to be $160,000-$200,000. Total compensation includes benefits and bonus eligibility.

Captona is a North America-focused investment company dedicated to Decarbonization and the Energy Transition. Captona invests in late stage, utility-scale renewable energy and clean fuels projects across North America with a focus on solar, storage, microgrids, fuel cell, and RNG technologies. Since inception, the Captona team, through its value-add approach, has deployed capital to acquire, construct, and operate 50+ infrastructure assets across North America valued close to $3 billion.

Karbone Research is now Noreva. Noreva fuses transparent fundamentals, AI-driven modeling, and real transactional insight to deliver clarity across the energy transition. Our platform empowers commodity producers, developers, asset owners and investors to value assets, settle deals, stress-test capital structures, and build strategies with conviction.