Senior Counsel – Project Finance, Commercial

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $146k - $234k / year

⏰ Full Time

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💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Energy Vault

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

⚡ Energy

Manufacturing • Consulting • Energy

Energy Vault is a company specializing in innovative energy storage solutions. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of hardware, software, and service solutions to meet various energy storage needs, ranging from short to ultra-long durations. Energy Vault integrates cutting-edge technologies such as proprietary battery, gravity, hydrogen, and hybrid energy storage systems, emphasizing flexibility, scalability, and sustainability. With a focus on customer-centric solutions, Energy Vault serves a global clientele that includes utilities and large energy users, helping them maximize economic and environmental value. The company's sophisticated software, VaultOS, aids in real-time energy management and optimization of storage and other energy assets.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end legal structuring and negotiation of project finance transactions, including construction loans, term debt, tax equity, back-leverage facilities, and permanent financing • Draft and negotiate credit agreements, security packages, depositary and accounts agreements, consent and assignment agreements, and related financing documents • Advise on financing structures for build-own-operate assets, including collateral structures, security interests, and intercreditor arrangements • Manage lender due diligence processes and coordinate with lenders' counsel through financial close • Advise on IRA tax credit structures, including ITC, PTC, domestic content, energy communities, and FEOC compliance • Support refinancings, amendments, waivers, and ongoing lender compliance matters post-close • Manage multiple transactions simultaneously at varying stages of execution • Support corporate-level debt facilities, revolving credit lines, and balance sheet financing • Advise on entity structuring and capitalization for project-level subsidiaries and holding companies • Assist with corporate governance matters tied to financing transactions • Review EPC contracts, equipment procurement agreements, PPAs, and interconnection agreements for bankability and lender consent processes

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school • Member of a state bar in good standing • 8–15 years of project finance experience, with significant exposure to energy, battery storage, infrastructure, or data center financings • Demonstrated track record closing complex project finance transactions from term sheet through financial close, including tax equity structures (ITC and/or PTC) • Working knowledge of IRA incentive structures, domestic content and FEOC compliance requirements, and how they interact with project financing and tax credit eligibility • Experience with construction financing and term conversion is highly valued • Corporate finance or capital markets experience is a plus • Proven ability to manage a high-volume workload with multiple active deals, competing priorities, and tight deadlines • Commercially minded with strong instincts for practical risk allocation • Excellent drafting and negotiation skills; confident advising and presenting to senior leadership and external counterparties • Willingness to travel domestically and/or internationally, up to 10% • Comfortable thriving in fast-paced, rapid growth environments • Must successfully pass a pre-employment background check • Energy Vault participates in E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus plan • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • 401K employer matching • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and family • Flexible Spending Account • Company-paid Life insurance, Short- and Long-term disability insurance • 8-weeks for Paternity leave • Generous holiday allowance • Flexible time off plus sick leave • Reimbursement for home office equipment, phone, and internet expenses