Senior Counsel

About Mainspring

Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions that rapidly add new capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric power. The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities. Mainspring also partners with global energy leaders including AEP, NextEra Energy Resources, Schneider Electric, and more.

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Job Overview

Mainspring is seeking a versatile, business-minded attorney to join our Legal team. You will be a critical member of Mainspring’s team as an accomplished transactional attorney who has the skill and versatility to flex between supporting a wide range of contracts, negotiations, and advisory work. In this role, you will not only draft and negotiate agreements, but also serve as a strategic partner to internal stakeholders and a wide range of vendors, customers, and strategic partners.

As a key member of the legal organization, you will have the opportunity to drive a tremendous impact by helping to create and shape the legal infrastructure of this area of the business. You are a problem solver, skilled communicator, relationship builder, and have a track record of success as a strategic lawyer operating in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Advisory: Provide thoughtful, risk-balanced, and business-minded advice to internal stakeholders on a wide range of complex contracts, such as equipment and project sale agreements, operation and maintenance contracts, development services agreements, EPC Agreements, financed offerings, and various supporting agreements
• Operational Excellence: Work closely with stakeholders across the company to architect and refine contract forms, templates, and playbooks, as well as scalable processes to support these tools
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner deeply with Sales, Finance, Project Delivery, Operations and other teams to drive execution of high-stakes commercial agreements
• Negotiation Leadership: Lead end-to-end contract negotiations for various commercial agreements with customers in the commercial and industrial, data center, governmental, and utility sectors, balancing legal protection with business velocity
• Knowledge Sharing: Develop and deliver training and other materials to elevate the legal IQ of the organization on contract terms and other legal issues

Qualifications

• JD degree and admitted to practice in the U.S
• Minimum 8 years of transactional experience (ideally a combination of) global law firm and/or in-house legal department experience, with a mastery of contract drafting and negotiating
• Technical Proficiency: Experience with contract management systems and a desire to optimize legal tech stacks and workflows.
• Executive Presence: Experience serving as a trusted business partner to senior leaders
• Domain Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of complex capital purchase and financed commercial transactions, operation and maintenance agreements, and a strong grasp of the interrelatedness of deal contracts