Project Development

Practice Group / Department:

Projects

Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

About Norton Rose Fulbright: Our projects practice is one of the largest in the world, with over 350 project and project finance lawyers located across our 50+ offices.We represent lenders, sponsors, developers, institutional investors, contractors, operators, and government entities in major domestic and cross-border renewable energy projects and financings. With a team of over 4,000 lawyers based in more than 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East, we offer a global perspective and a comprehensive service to clients. Our respected lawyers leverage their experience to find innovative solutions for complex issues, offering commercial and practical approaches to M&A, debt and equity financing transactions. This ensures timely and cost-effective project completion. Recognized annually for our pioneering work in first-in-jurisdiction and first-in-technology renewable energy projects, we are market leaders in developing creative legal solutions to difficult business problems. Our deep understanding of structures, risk profiles, and regulatory regimes is crucial to successfully closing complex and groundbreaking renewable energy transactions globally.

Job Summary: Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking an Associate with 3-6 years of experience in construction, procurement, and project development. The ideal candidate will have a background in project development within the renewable energy or oil & gas sectors, or extensive construction experience, particularly with large-scale infrastructure projects. Experience should include negotiating engineering, procurement, and construction agreements, operations and maintenance agreements, equipment procurement agreements, and other development agreements. This role provides an opportunity to work on high-profile projects in renewable energy, energy storage, and power generation technologies. Collaborating with our global team, you will engage in some of the most innovative, complex, and challenging projects worldwide. Attorneys in this role may focus exclusively on renewable energy and energy transition transactions, if desired, or participate in a broader range of energy and infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of renewable and conventional energy projects, including wind, solar, LNG, and nuclear.
• Oversee engineering, procurement and construction agreements, equipment procurement agreements and other development contracts.
• Negotiate and draft engineering, procurement, and construction agreements.
• Stay updated on industry trends and changes in project development and finance law
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including clients and colleagues in various specialty areas such as tax, regulatory, and real estate

Additional Skills:

• Representative experience with clients in the renewable energy market, on matters including project development (including offtake, procurement and construction) and/or project finance specific transactions is helpful
• Law firm project finance experience, preferably in a sophisticated national law firm environment

Location: This position may be based in any of our US offices (Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Antonio, San Francisco, St. Louis, or Washington, DC). Applicants should indicate their office(s) of interest in their application.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Exposure to a diverse range of high-profile clients and projects.
• Collaborating across our global team, we act on some of the most innovative, complex, and challenging projects in the world. Over the past five years, we have closed 470 project finance transactions globally, totaling over US$278 billion - the most of any law firm by deal volume (IJGlobal Q1, 2024).

Additional Benefits: We are committed to supporting our employees' professional and personal growth. Here are additional benefits designed to enhance your career and well-being at our global law firm.

• Flexible Work Schedule: We offer a flexible work schedule that supports a healthy work-life balance and professional development. Senior Associates, Associates, and Sr. Counsel are expected in the office at least two days a week. This flexibility allows our team members to manage their schedules effectively while ensuring they have ample opportunity for growth and collaboration.
• Vacation Incentive: The firm will offer a $2,500 vacation award to all non-partner lawyers who record 600 client billable hours or more in a consecutive three-month period within a calendar year.
• Professional Development: To foster business development skills and support personal contacts, the firm reimburses business development activities. Lawyers with 250+ business development hours in a performance year will receive a firm-sponsored coaching session.
• Fertility Healthcare & Family Forming Benefits: In partnership with Carrot Fertility, we offer inclusive fertility health and family-forming benefits, including assisted reproduction, preservation, adoption, and gestational surrogacy. The firm provides a $20,000 lifetime benefit for these services.
• Referral Bonus Program: The firm offers a $30,000 bonus to any employee who recommends a non-partner lawyer who is subsequently recruited and joins the firm.

Position Information: Employees are entitled to compensation commensurate with skill and experience. The full time base annual salary for this position in the New York City, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco market is expected to range between $260, ,000. This range represents the firm's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting for a position in New York City, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Salaries in other markets will vary depending on market data. Bonus opportunities are non-guaranteed and are dependent upon individual and firm performance.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Applicants with disabilities are encouraged to inform a Recruiting Representative if they require a reasonable accommodation to perform a job for which they are otherwise qualified.

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