Senior Counsel, Projects

Meet the team:

Glydways is seeking a Senior Counsel, Projects, who will report to the Chief Legal Officer. This role will involve significant collaboration with the Project Delivery, Business Development, and Finance teams.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Draft and negotiate project agreements, construction contracts, MOUs, NDAs, teaming agreements, joint venture agreements, unsolicited proposals, project company documents, procurement (RFI/RFQ/RFP), predevelopment agreements (PDAs) and/or project financing documents, including those using alternative project delivery methods, such as public-private partnerships (P3), traditional and progressive design-build, and other forms of alternative delivery contracting.

• Help create new and innovative project delivery structures tailored to particular performance, funding, environmental, technological, and community considerations
• Participate with project leads, partners and counterparties to develop strategies and project structures that meet Glydways’ goals
• Management of external counsel
• Taking responsibility for leading the day-to-day work of the suite of documents for our projects
• Serve as key legal contact for our internal project development and project delivery teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with projects spanning surface transportation (e.g. roads, transit and rail, bridges and tunnels, and autonomous vehicles), airports, water, government facilities, transit-oriented and mixed-use development and universities is a plus.
• 6 or more years of substantial and relevant transactional experience in infrastructure, transportation, real estate, public procurement, and public and/or private finance matters
• Demonstrating exceptional drafting, writing, analytical, and advocacy skills and the ability to successfully interact with colleagues, external counsel, project counter party participants (engineering firms, construction firms, etc.) and public sector staff
• Showing academic excellence and leadership, having achieved a law degree from an accredited law school
• Have experience drafting project contracts including project agreements, construction contracts, MOUs, NDAs, teaming agreements, joint venture agreements, project company documents, procurement (RFI/RFQ/RFP), predevelopment agreements (PDAs) and/or project financing documents
• Have experience with various methods of major construction and project delivery procurement and contracting, such as design-build, design-build-operate-maintain, CM/GC, public-private partnerships (P3), progressive and traditional design-build, and/or project-related claims and disputes
• Have prior law firm experience
• Have experience advising public sector clients
• Being admitted to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction (New York or California preferred)
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, mathematics or a related field
• Entrepreneurial spirit, creative, fast on your feet and ability to think outside the box
• Team player who can both take direction and show initiative as appropriate
• Bright and flexible, with excellent analytical, strategic, and implementation skills
• Results-oriented, with an ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and expeditiously
• Ability to work with a diverse set of project participants and their legal and commercial representatives from government counter parties to engineering and construction groups to investors, developers and project lenders, and various external lawyers representing such parties
• Ability to develop strong client relationships, establishing deep and sustainable business opportunities
• Ability to deliver work within tight timescales
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (both written and oral) and first rate inter-personal skills
• Managing external legal counsel
• Providing strategic advice to top management