SUBMER - Vice President, Legal
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Requirements
• Qualified lawyer (JD or UK/EU equivalent) in good standing in at least one relevant jurisdiction • 12 to 18+ years' legal experience, with significant in-house or relevant private practice time • Deep experience across infrastructure, energy, construction, and real estate transactions • Track record negotiating complex commercial and financing agreements at scale • Clear, business-focused advice in fast-moving environments • Strong influence with executives and the Board • Preferred • Data centers, digital infrastructure, or hyperscale experience • Experience in a PE-backed or institutionally funded business, including financing and diligence • International experience across multiple regions • Experience building and leading a legal function from an early stage • What success looks like • The equity and debt raises close, with legal ahead of the deal rather than behind it • Sites, power, and construction contracts are locked down on terms that hold up under investor diligence • Contracting is consistent and quick across regions, with the business able to self-serve on routine work • The business gets clear advice it can act on, with risk called early • Outside counsel spend is controlled and proportionate
Responsibilities
• Corporate, M&A and governance • Lead legal on equity and debt raises, including investor diligence, financing documents, and security packages • Structure and negotiate joint ventures, co-investment, and M&A as the platform grows • Own corporate governance: multi-jurisdiction entity management, board and shareholder matters, delegations of authority, and the policies a PE-backed business is expected to hold • Real estate and land • Lead legal on site acquisition: land purchases, options, ground leases, build-to-suit, easements, and wayleaves • Handle title, zoning, planning and entitlements, and permitting across jurisdictions • Support development from site control through to operational handover • Power and energy • Power and energy • Negotiate power purchase agreements, grid connection and interconnection agreements, and take-or-pay arrangements • Advise on on-site generation and storage (solar, battery, backup) and related grid and regulatory matters • Treat power as a gating issue: secure it early and protect it contractually • Construction and projects • Structure, draft, and negotiate construction contracts: EPC, design-build, GMP, multi-prime, and FIDIC-based forms for international work • Cover the full project lifecycle: procurement, delivery, commissioning, claims, delay, defects, liens, and site safety • Manage colocation, supply, equipment, and professional services agreements • Compliance, risk and disputes • Advise on regulatory and compliance matters across real estate, energy, construction, and data infrastructure • Own data protection (GDPR and equivalents), sanctions, anti-bribery, and ESG and sustainability obligations • Manage disputes and pre-litigation matters, and coordinate external counsel • Run the outside counsel panel for quality, speed, and cost • Building the function • Stand up the legal function from scratch and grow it as the company expands • Build the team and the budget, and bring in specialists as volume demands
Benefits
• Opportunity to define and elevate a category-leading brand in a rapidly growing industry • Work at the forefront of data center innovation and sustainability • Global scope with meaningful impact on company growth and reputation • Our inclusive responsibility
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