Vaulted Deep
Senior Counsel, Commercial & Joint Ventures
Houston · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
Business DevelopmentNegotiationLeadership
About the role
- You will own the legal workstream for Vaulted's partnerships end-to-end - from term sheet through definitive documentation through post-closing amendments - as our senior in-house counsel for partnership transactions.
- You will lead a two-person legal team, managing a Corporate Counsel and a Contract Specialist (paralegal), and will draft and negotiate directly against sophisticated counterparties (and their counsel), with the expectation that routine and mid-complexity deals are papered fully in-house.
Responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate JV agreements, LLC operating agreements, site host and lease agreements, feedstock supply agreements, tipping fee arrangements, and O&M agreements with partners
- Own the term sheet process: translate commercial deal points from the business development team into structures that survive diligence, financing, and audit
- Build and maintain waste-stream-specific contract standards
- Manage and develop a team of two direct reports: a Corporate Counsel and a Contract Specialist / paralegal
- Set quality standards, review the team's work product, and build the team's capability so more of the deal pipeline can be handled below your level over time
- Manage outside counsel on matters that genuinely require specialist support (tax, permitting, regulatory, litigation), keeping spend tight and scoped
- Continue build out of template library and negotiation playbook so deal velocity increases as the partnership pipeline scales
Requirements
- licensed and in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (Texas admission or ability to register as in-house counsel)
- 8-12 years of transactional experience in energy, infrastructure, environmental/waste, or project development - at a major law firm, in-house at a sponsor/developer, or both
- Periodic travel to partner meetings and operating sites required
Nice to have
- Comfort negotiating against large, sophisticated counterparties and their Big Law counsel
- Ability to operate independently in a lean, fast-moving company - you and your team are the legal function for this workstream
- Experience with waste management, environmental services, or adjacent industries
- Exposure to project finance structures (SPVs, lender consent rights, collateral assignment of material contracts)
- Experience at a venture-backed or growth-stage company
- Carbon markets or CDR experience - we will teach you the industry
- we need you to already know how to paper the deals
- Strongly preferred
Benefits
- Support diligence workstreams for financings and equity raises as they touch partnership agreements
Visa & Work Authorization
- experience in energy, infrastructure, environmental/waste, or project development — at a major law firm, in-house at a sponsor/developer, or both
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