Assistant General Counsel - Wholesale Energy Transactions

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paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick days; and much more.

A highly experienced energy attorney, with a focus on gas transactions, who works independently and has major matter, team or client responsibilities as well as certain responsibilities for other attorneys on a project-specific/mentoring basis. Frequently supervises professional teams working on legal matters. Work generally involves handling matters of very substantial importance.

• Performs as a specialist in the evaluation, structuring, negotiation, and implementation of complex energy commodity transactions,
• Provides technical and expert legal services to Constellation business units, primarily relating to gas and other energy transactions.
• Drafts and negotiates a variety of agreements related to gas and other energy transactions, including enabling agreements (NAESB, EEI, ISDA).
• Under little or no supervision, plans, conducts and supervises large and complex energy commodity transactions, including evaluating such transactions for both legal and business risks and advising clients accordingly.
• Provides legal counsel to all levels of management, including senior management.
• Provides leadership direction to less experienced attorneys and support
• Prepares, and revises as necessary, budgets and early matter assessments for all matters involving outside
• Other projects / duties as assigned

• An LLB or JD from an accredited law school and be licensed to practice law in the relevant jurisdictions.
• At least 10-12 years of professional experience in a specialized area of law.
• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge of principles, practices and procedures of the legal field to the completion of complex assignments.
• Requires excellent legal research, analytical abilities and on ongoing knowledge of federal and/or state law.

• At least 5+ years’ experience handling energy commodity transactional work, including gas and gas-related (biogas; RINs, LNG) transactions.
• Experience working with business to properly structure complex energy commodity transactions.
• Experience with physical and financial energy trading documentation, such as ISDA, NAESB and the EEI.
• Experience with firm and interruptible transportation and storage agreements, asset management agreements and other basic transactional documentation such as non-disclosure agreements, secured transaction documentation and credit support instruments.
• Experience with contract documentation for various emissions products.

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