Senior Attorney
NextEra Energy, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Provides written and oral legal advice to clients
- Anticipates and guards against legal risks involving the organization
- Works to ensure budget compliance and avoids the need for outside counsel
- Ensures disclosure of potentially material legal issues to senior leadership
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Five or more years of experience as a commercial attorney at a leading energy company, law firm, or financial institution
- Strong preference for candidates with significant energy transactional experience; ideal candidates will have experience with natural gas transactions, asset management agreements, and pipeline transportation and storage agreements
- Experience with mass market and retail transactions
- Familiarity with FERC and applicable state regulations governing wholesale and retail natural gas transactions
- Experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating physical and financial commodity contracts, including originated and structured fuel transactions
- Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating ISDA and NAESB master agreements
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients at all levels of the organization, including senior management, and to serve as a trusted business advisor
- Sound judgment and the ability to work independently and efficiently under time pressures and deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail
- Strong work ethic; proactive, flexible, and enthusiastic approach; and a high level of business and personal integrity
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including strong negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Excellent academic credentials
- Member in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar.
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Hard Skills & Tools
commercial attorneyenergy transactional experiencenatural gas transactionsasset management agreementspipeline transportation agreementsmass market transactionsretail transactionsFERC regulationscommodity contractsISDA master agreements
Soft Skills
effective communicationtrusted business advisorsound judgmentindependent workattention to detailstrong work ethicproactive approachflexibilityenthusiasminterpersonal skills
Certifications
member of U.S. state bar