[Hiring] Assistant General Counsel, Transactions @Crux

Role Description

Crux is seeking an Assistant General Counsel, Transactions — a mid-level project finance lawyer who will serve as the day-to-day transactional attorney across Crux’s investment and financing activity. The role covers the full range of transactions Crux originates, structures, and executes:

• Tax equity and preferred equity investments
• Transferable tax credit purchases and forward commitments
• Debt facilities
• Corporate-level financings and strategic transactions

You will manage transactions from term sheet through closing and post-closing administration, working with Crux’s Investments, Coverage, Debt Advisory, and Portfolio Management teams and managing outside counsel where appropriate. You will also support the General Counsel and Associate General Counsel on corporate-level matters, so the role offers significant breadth.

Crux Legal approaches each transaction as an opportunity to improve the next one:

• Standardizing documents
• Developing playbooks and checklists
• Building and using AI tools for diligence, drafting, closing, and portfolio management

We are looking for a lawyer who already works this way and wants to do a lot more of it.

Responsibilities

• Execute Crux’s investment transactions.
• Lead the legal workstream on tax equity transactions: term sheets, LLC agreements, equity capital contribution agreements, tax credit transfer and forward purchase agreements, guaranties, and closing deliverables.
• Support debt financings, including credit agreements, intercreditor and forbearance arrangements, borrowing base and draw mechanics, and lender consents.
• Lead legal diligence and issue-spotting, reviewing project documents and distilling findings into clear risks and mitigants for investment committee materials.
• Own the post-closing legal workstream, handling funding conditions, amendments, consents, waivers, and reporting obligations.
• Manage outside counsel efficiently, deciding what gets done in-house versus by outside counsel.
• Support corporate-level matters, including corporate financings, strategic transactions, and corporate governance.
• Standardize documents and processes, maintaining and improving Crux’s forms, playbooks, checklists, and closing sets.
• Develop and apply AI tools for diligence review, document drafting, and closing workflows.
• Partner with the business, participating in deal discussions and translating legal issues into commercial terms.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of transactional experience, with a significant portion in the projects, energy, or infrastructure finance practice of a leading law firm.
• Hands-on experience with tax equity, transferable tax credit transactions, and debt financings for renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
• Working fluency in the federal energy tax credit framework.
• Practical experience using AI in legal practice.
• Ownership and judgment, taking responsibility for outcomes and making pragmatic risk-weighted calls.
• Clear communication with lawyers and non-lawyers.
• Comfort with pace and ambiguity, working effectively on several transactions at once.
• JD and admission in good standing to the bar of at least one U.S. state (New York or DC preferred).

Benefits

• Healthcare: 100% of premiums for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Dental & vision: 100% of premiums for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Holidays: 10 company holidays per year.
• Paid time off: 20 days per year.
• 401k: account fees supported by Crux.
• Base salary: $220,000-$270,000, based on experience.
• Bonus: Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Stock options in a rapidly growing company.

Our values

• Care for each other: We want to work on a team where people support each other.
• Build and improve rapidly: We focus, consistently ask ourselves if we are prioritizing the right things.
• Focus unremittingly on customers: Our first obligation is to our customers and partners.
• Demonstrate ownership: We are all owners of Crux.
• Convene a team that reflects the breadth of experiences in the country.