Counsel, Law​/Legal

Position Overview

AES Clean Energy (AES) is seeking to hire a Rotational Attorney. The position is designed for an early-career attorney with some entry-level legal experience who will rotate through each of the five core legal teams:
Real Estate, Development, Project Counsel, Commercial, Finance, and Operations. During each rotation, the attorney will work closely with experienced team members, contribute to substantive legal matters, and develop the skills necessary to become a well-rounded energy lawyer.

• Real Estate: Support real estate counsel on land acquisition, title review, easements, rights-of-way, lease negotiations, and landowner relations for renewable energy projects.
• Development: Assist development attorneys with M&A and due diligence activities and project development matters, including permitting, interconnection, environmental compliance, and stakeholder relations for renewable energy and battery storage projects.
• Project Counsel: Work alongside project counsel to support the construction phase of energy projects, including drafting and negotiating EPC contracts, managing project-level legal issues that arise during construction, and supporting late state project financing.
• Commercial: Collaborate with commercial attorneys on power purchase agreements (PPAs), energy storage agreements, hedging arrangements, and other commercial contracts.
• Finance: Support finance counsel on project financing transactions, including tax equity, debt financing.

• Strong academic credentials and demonstrated interest in energy, infrastructure, or transactional law.
• Renewable energy experience; wind energy, battery storage or general infrastructure project development experience a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to work effectively as an individual and as part of a team.
• Ability to adapt to a variety of duties and often challenging tasks.
• Smart, decisive, organized, methodical, biased toward action.
• Three to six years of relevant legal experience, preferably at a major law firm or in-house.

• Bachelor’s Degree
• JD from an accredited law school and active bar admission in at least one jurisdiction

Salary: $120,000-$150,025 per year, plus an annual bonus. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, 401(k) eligibility, and paid time off (vacation, sick leave, and parental leave).

AES is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed to building strength and delivering long-term sustainability through diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and/or expression, race, national origin, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

E-Verify Notice: AES will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s I-9 to confirm work authorization.