solarprovidergroup
Legal Counsel, Real Estate and Development
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
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About the role
- This role is ideal for a lawyer who combines strong U.S. commercial real estate fundamentals with sound commercial judgment and a solutions-oriented approach.
- This role is fully remote for U.S.-based candidates and hybrid for Toronto-based candidates, with at least three days per week in the Company's Liberty Village office.
- Work closely with development, engineering, and other internal stakeholders to identify and resolve title, survey, access, and curative issues in a practical and commercially reasonable manner.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will be expected to manage day-to-day title and real estate legal workstreams with increasing independence, while also supporting project transactions and related in-house legal work as needed.
- Help manage title curative workstreams across the project portfolio, including surface, mineral, and other title issues, and coordinate with internal teams and outside service providers to advance issues toward resolution.
- Support project closings by reviewing and coordinating real estate-related closing documents, managing title and survey workstreams, and helping ensure closing deliverables are complete and insurable and financeable.
- Conduct legal diligence and maintain issue tracking in connection with project sales, acquisitions, financings, and similar transactions.
- Development and Legal Support
- Support broader development legal matters as needed, including permitting-related agreements, access arrangements, and other project-level legal workstreams.
- Provide secondary support on project transactions and related commercial agreements as needed, with the primary focus remaining on real estate workstreams.
- Support the General Counsel on other in-house legal matters as needed.
- Help maintain organized legal records, closing files, and supporting documentation, and contribute to clear communication and coordination across internal and external stakeholders.
- Our team combines technical expertise, financial insight, and strong local relationships to deliver projects that accelerate the clean-energy transition and create lasting value for landowners and communities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of legal experience, with significant experience in U.S. commercial real estate, U.S. real estate finance, or U.S. project development.
- Law degree and licensed to practice law in the United States.
- Experience supporting closings, financings, acquisitions, dispositions, or similar transactions involving real estate assets or development-stage projects.
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to provide practical advice that balances legal risk with business objectives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal teams and external counterparties.
- Comfort working independently while also collaborating closely with business teams and outside advisors.
- Experience in-house or in a role involving regular cross-functional business collaboration is an asset.
- Experience working with land professionals, title agents, surveyors, or other non-lawyer real estate service providers is an asset.
- This role requires substantive experience with U.S. real estate practice.
- Occasional travel within the United States may be required.
- Strong grounding in U.S. real estate fundamentals, including title review, survey review, easements, access issues, and real estate diligence.
- Experience reviewing and negotiating real estate-related agreements such as leases, easements, access agreements, crossing agreements, amendments, and related documents.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple matters at once and keep workstreams moving in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly tech-savvy, with an openness to adopting and using new tools, including AI, email marketing platforms, dialing systems, and automation tools.
Nice to have
- Experience in solar, BESS, infrastructure, or other development-oriented industries is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with U.S. title insurance, U.S. survey practice, and U.S. real estate closing processes is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Company info
- This role is part of the Company's North American team, which is focused primarily on the development of solar and BESS projects in the United States and Canada, with most current activity in the United States.
- Every team member should feel valued, respected, and supported as part of our mission to expand renewable energy.
Equal opportunity
- To request an accommodation, please contact the Human Resources team.
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