CONTRACT - Senior Counsel
Akaysha EnergySydney, New South Wales
Full Time
Posted October 3, 2025
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Job Description
The Senior Counsel will provide expert legal support for large-scale battery energy storage projects, leading negotiations, managing legal risks, and ensuring compliance throughout project development, financing, and execution phases.
Key Responsibilities
- Negotiate and finalize high-value project and finance agreements for BESS projects from initiation to approval and execution.
- Provide legal support on project financing, including reviewing and negotiating finance instruments and tripartite agreements.
- Oversee legal approval processes, monitor legal spend, and ensure compliance with legal requirements throughout project delivery.
- Deliver legal and strategic advice on complex legal issues and serve as the escalation point for project legal matters.
- Engage with stakeholders, provide legal guidance for project milestones, and coordinate legal workstreams for timely decision-making.
Requirements
- Deliver expert legal support on major battery energy storage system (BESS) projects through to Final Investment Decision Financial Close.
- Independently lead and negotiate complex, high-value project and finance agreements for BESS projects from initiation through to approval and execution, including resolving negotiation impasses and ensuring all agreements align with Akaysha's risk and commercial objectives and comply with legal and risk management standards.
- Provide legal support on project financing for allocated projects, including reviewing and negotiating finance instruments and tripartite agreements under supervision, delivering legal sign-off on lender requirements and due diligence outputs, and escalating to the General Manager Legal, Financing and Corporate as needed.
- Proactively address legal risks in financing structures to support project and business goals.
- Oversee legal approval processes and act as the escalation point for governance issues.
- Monitor legal spend against budgets for external counsel, ensure optimal resource allocation, and maintain accountability for compliance with all internal and external legal requirements throughout project delivery.
- Deliver expert legal and strategic advice on complex issues as the primary escalation point for project legal matters, uphold all required certifications, and demonstrate ongoing commitment to professional excellence.
- Lead engagement with senior internal and external stakeholders, provide legal guidance to support project milestones, and drive and coordinate legal workstreams for timely delivery of legal inputs on critical decisions.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to resolve complex legal challenges and advance business objectives.
- Demonstrate proven ability to independently structure and negotiate complex project and finance agreements such as EPC, OEM, offtake, connection, and tripartite agreements.
- Have demonstrated experience balancing legal risk, commercial drivers, and project objectives in contract development.
- Possess expertise in identifying, allocating, and mitigating legal risks throughout the project lifecycle, including development, financing, delivery, and operations, with a track record of implementing strategies to address and manage legal risk in large-scale energy projects.
- Have strong experience executing legal aspects of project finance transactions, including lender negotiations and due diligence processes, and aligning finance instruments and documentation with overall project requirements and objectives.
- Possess in-depth knowledge of interpreting and applying complex regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, with the ability to guide compliance strategies and inform operational decisions based on regulatory requirements.
- Have experience embedding legal governance structures within project and corporate workflows, ensuring alignment with internal approval processes and external legal obligations.
- Demonstrate the ability to provide expert legal advice and lead negotiations with senior internal and external stakeholders, supporting project milestones and resolving complex legal and commercial issues through effective stakeholder engagement.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule not specified
Work environment perks not specified
Opportunity to work on large-scale energy projects
Potential for professional development and leadership in legal and energy sectors
Being part of a company committed to sustainability and clean energy transition
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