Legal Counsel (9 month FTC)

The Function & Team

The Legal team provides clear, pragmatic advice that supports Triple Point’s ambitions and protects our interests. They work closely with teams across the business to draft agreements, manage risk and enable confident decision-making that’s both commercially sound and aligned with our values.

Role Summary

As Legal Counsel, you will be a trusted legal adviser to Triple Point's Energy businesses. You will play a key role in structuring, negotiating and executing complex financing and energy transactions, while supporting the ongoing management of existing investments and loan portfolios.

Working closely with investment, portfolio management and senior stakeholder teams, you will provide pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice that enables growth, manages risk and supports confident decision-making across a diverse range of transactions.

The Roles Key Responsibilities

Transaction Execution & Advisory

• Advise on transaction structuring, identifying legal risks and commercially viable solutions at the earliest stages of a deal.
• Draft, negotiate and execute a broad range of finance documents, including facility agreements, intercreditor agreements and security documentation.
• Review and negotiate the following:
• Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)
• Corporate PPAs
• Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) agreements
• Operations and Maintenance (O&M) agreements
• Direct agreements and related project documentation

Portfolio & Asset Management

• Provide ongoing legal support across existing portfolios and loan books.
• Draft and negotiate amendments, waivers, consents, reservation of rights letters and other portfolio management documentation.
• Advise stakeholders on emerging legal, commercial and regulatory issues affecting existing investments.

Risk Management & Governance

• Identify, assess and communicate legal and commercial risks in a clear and practical manner.
• Support the business in balancing risk management with commercial objectives.
• Ensure all post-completion requirements are completed accurately, including Companies House filings and security registrations.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of legal processes, templates and knowledge sharing across the business.

Collaboration & Business Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with colleagues across Triple Point.
• Work collaboratively with external counsel, counterparties and advisers.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and high performance across the Legal function.

Experience

• Qualified solicitor with extensive years of PQE and holds a current practicing certificate.
• Experience in Project Finance/Infrastructure within Energy Transition is essential (including drafting and reviewing underlying project documentation) and one or more of the following areas: cash flow lending, acquisition financing, structured finance and leveraged lending.
• Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of facility documentation.
• Ability to demonstrate exposure to a broad range of deal structures.
• Strong private practice training.
• Experience of equity transactions within the energy sector would be desirable.

Personal Qualities:

• Pragmatism and commerciality.
• Positive, proactive, smart, engaging and sociable.
• Where accuracy is key, you take responsibility for your work and strive to get it right first time; people can rely on your work.
• Comfortable working to internal and external deadlines.
• Seek to develop a genuine rapport and long term working relationships.
• Knowledgeable and can be relied on for technical aspects of the role.
• Able to demonstrate and display technical knowledge to gain credibility for Triple Point with external parties.
• Deliver high quality output that enhances Triple Point’s reputation for expertise.
• Has a good awareness of what is going on in our sectors and are able to come with ideas about what we might do.

IT Packages/Systems Used

• Good command of Microsoft Outlook.
• MS Office packages: Word and Excel.
• Docusign.
• Willingness to embrace and experiment with new technologies and AI.

Why Join us?

• You’ll join a talented, collaborative team in a connected environment where ideas and initiative are valued.
• Be part of a growing and innovative team.
• We offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and genuine opportunities for growth and progression.
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression.

At Triple Point, high performance means living our values every day:

• Stay Curious.
• Be Generous.
• Take Thoughtful Action.
• Pull Together.
• Own It.

In line with our values Stay Curious and Take Thoughtful Action every employee has access to AI tools to enhance their work. We see technology as a co-pilot, helping us improve efficiency and insight while keeping decisions grounded in thoughtful human judgement.