Senior Counsel

Seven Seas Water Group

Seven Seas Water Group () is a portfolio company owned by investment funds managed by EQT. Headquartered in Tampa, with operations across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers annually over 20 billion gallons of water to industrial, commercial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers. SSWG designs, builds, owns, operates, delivers new facilities, or acquires and upgrades existing facilities, with the goal of optimizing project risk transfer between the public and private sectors.

We have more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants in operations throughout the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. With an outstanding reputation for decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions, the SSWG “Water-as-a-Service®” approach seeks to help solve global water and wastewater infrastructure challenges.

Seven Seas Water Group () is a portfolio company owned by investment funds managed by EQT. Headquartered in Tampa, with operations across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers annually over 20 billion gallons of water to industrial, commercial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers. SSWG designs, builds, owns, operates, delivers new facilities, or acquires and upgrades existing facilities, with the goal of optimizing project risk transfer between the public and private sectors.

We have more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants in operations throughout the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. With an outstanding reputation for decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions, the SSWG “Water-as-a-Service®” approach seeks to help solve global water and wastewater infrastructure challenges. SSWG operates two businesses within the water infrastructure space. Seven Seas Water, which provides water treatment and desalination for governmental, hospitality and industrial customers in United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the AUC Group (), which provides decentralized water and wastewater treatment plants for industrial and municipal customers in the United States.

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Job Summary:

As part of a growing company, this attorney will report to the Chief Legal and Compliance officer and work closely with the Deputy General Counsel to support day-to-day legal needs of Seven Seas Water Group, with a primary focus on the AUC Group’s business and its decentralized water and wastewater treatment operations in Texas and elsewhere across the United States. The role centers on commercial and municipal contracting, public procurement, construction and project-delivery matters, and also supports claims and disputes, corporate governance, compliance and regulatory matters.

The successful candidate will independently draft, negotiate, and manage complex agreements; partner directly with business, operations, project-development, and procurement leaders to structure practical solutions; and exercise sound, well-documented judgment, escalating issues when appropriate. The successful candidate will be organized and detail-oriented, with the energy, ownership, and flexibility to deliver high-quality work product in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial water and wastewater agreements for AUC Group, including build-own-operate (BOO/BOOT), lease, Water-as-a-Service®, design-build, and operations and maintenance contracts, and maintaining/updating the related contract templates and playbooks.
• Supporting competitive procurement and business development, including reviewing and responding to municipal, wholesale and industrial RFPs, invitations to bid, and qualification packages, advising on public-bidding and award requirements, and preparing confidentiality, and pre-bid agreements.
• Providing regulatory and permitting support for AUC, including drinking-water and wastewater compliance under applicable laws and advising on permits, operating obligations, and municipality/agency interactions.
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