Senior Legal Associate
Akaysha EnergyCremorne, Victoria
Full Time
Posted October 23, 2025
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Job Description
A Senior Legal Associate supporting the development, construction, and operation of large-scale battery energy storage projects by managing legal agreements, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead legal and strategic support for key FID-stage projects, including negotiation of project agreements.
- Manage stakeholder relationships and coordinate legal workflows to support project milestones.
- Structure and negotiate complex project and finance agreements, ensuring alignment with risk and strategic goals.
- Support project financing through review and negotiation of tripartite agreements and finance instruments.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations throughout project delivery.
- Identify, allocate, and mitigate legal risks across all project phases.
- Interpret and apply complex regulatory frameworks to project structures and operational decisions.
- Embed legal governance frameworks into project and corporate workflows.
Requirements
- Experience in structuring complex project and finance agreements such as EPC, OEM, offtake, and tripartite agreements that balance legal risk, commercial outcomes, and strategic goals.
- Ability to identify, allocate, and mitigate legal risks across all phases of a project from development through to operations.
- Experience in executing legal components of project finance transactions, including lender negotiations, due diligence, and alignment of finance instruments with project documentation.
- Proficiency in interpreting complex regulatory frameworks and applying them to project structures, operational decisions, and compliance strategies across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience in embedding legal governance frameworks into project and corporate workflows, ensuring alignment with internal approvals and external obligations.
- Ability to support project financing by reviewing and negotiating tripartite agreements and finance instruments, providing legal input on due diligence and lender requests, and ensuring alignment with project and business objectives.
- Experience in managing legal approvals and budgets in line with corporate governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations throughout project delivery.
- Skill in coordinating stakeholder relationships and legal workflows to support key project milestones, ensuring timely and aligned legal inputs.
- Strong technical expertise in guiding legal processes and providing practical advice across development, construction, and operations phases of projects.
- Experience in negotiating and managing high-value project and finance agreements for Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects through to execution.
- Ability to interpret and apply complex regulatory frameworks relevant to BESS projects and ensure compliance across jurisdictions.
- Educational background or professional qualification in law (e.g., JD, LLB, or equivalent legal degree).
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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