Associate General Counsel, Commercial – Infrastructure

The role

You will lead legal work across a data center development and colocation portfolio. You will advise on high-value transactions involving data center sites, power, construction, and colocation.

What you will do

• Lead commercial legal strategy and risk management for data center development and colocation transactions.
• Draft, negotiate, and advise on colocation agreements, construction agreements, and power-related arrangements.
• Support first-party projects involving land, site and power rights, design, construction, EPC models, build-to-suit structures, and leasebacks.
• Partner cross-functionally with infrastructure, finance, procurement, and operations teams.
• Manage and collaborate with outside counsel.
• Develop scalable legal playbooks and contracting approaches.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of legal experience, primarily in commercial legal roles.
• Deep, hands-on experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on colocation and data center agreements.
• A track record leading sophisticated, high-value commercial infrastructure transactions.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to operate autonomously in a highly technical, fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills.
• JD and license or qualification to practice in California.

Nice to have

• Experience with first-party data center builds, construction and EPC agreements, power arrangements, raw-land development, build-to-suit projects, or leasebacks.
• Experience at a hyperscaler, cloud or compute provider, data center developer, major colocation company, or law firm practice focused on comparable commercial infrastructure matters.
• A mix of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

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