The Los Angeles office of a major US-based international law firm seeks a highly motivated lateral associate for its Business and Finance Practice Group.

PROFILE:

---The candidate should have 3 to 4 years of comparable law firm experience in energy and general corporate work

---JD, LLB, LLM

---Strong writing skills, and excellent academic credentials
---Contracting, administrative litigation, investigations, and/or project experience.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

---Working with private institutions as well as institutions such as the World Bank Group, International Finance Corporation, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, U.S. Agency for International Development, and others to secure funding and perform an initial feasibility study

---Advising electric utilities on matters related to the operation of regional transmission organizations, retail gas electric and gas competition, Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) operations, standards of conduct compliance

---Negotiating energy transactions, including contracts involving traditional as well as renewable energy resources

---Drafting agreements for the purchase, sale and financing of energy as a commodity, energy assets, including pipeline and gathering facilities, storage and distribution facilities, power plants, and refining and natural gas processing facilities.