CONTRACT - Senior Counsel
Akaysha EnergySydney, New South Wales
Full Time
Posted October 9, 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.
- Lead engagement with stakeholders, providing legal guidance to support project milestones and resolve legal challenges.
- Structure and negotiate complex project and finance agreements such as EPC, OEM, offtake, and connection agreements.
- Identify, allocate, and mitigate legal risks across the project lifecycle.
- Execute legal aspects of project finance transactions, including lender negotiations and due diligence.
- Interpret and apply complex regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
- Implement legal governance structures within project and corporate workflows.
Requirements
- Lead and independently negotiate complex, high-value project and finance agreements for Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects from initiation through to approval and execution, 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 issues 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, monitoring legal spend against budgets for external counsel, ensuring optimal resource allocation, and maintaining 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, drive and coordinate legal workstreams for timely delivery of legal inputs on critical decisions, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration to resolve complex legal challenges and advance business objectives.
- Possess proven ability to independently structure and negotiate complex project and finance agreements such as EPC, OEM, offtake, connection, and tripartite agreements, with demonstrated experience balancing legal risk, commercial drivers, and project objectives in contract development.
- Have 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, with the ability to align 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 demonstrated 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
Hybrid and remote-compatible workplace
Annual development allowance
Additional paid time off
Curated learning content
Annual wellbeing allowance
Generous paid parental leave
Employee and family assistance programs
Mobile phone allowance
Competitive pay with above-market performance bonuses
Long-term incentives
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