Tax - Energy/Climate (Senior)

Advocates Legal Recruiting is hiring a Senior Associate or Counsel for its energy and climate solutions platform in a tax role focused on clean energy financing. Responsibilities include managing tax-driven energy transactions and advising on tax equity deals. Candidates should have 6+ years of relevant experience. The position is open in multiple locations including San Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and Seattle, indicating remote flexibility.
About the position

Our AmLaw 100 client is hiring a senior associate or counsel into its energy and climate solutions platform. This is a sponsor -facing tax role inside a nationally recognized renewables and energy transition practice with meaningful depth in project finance, tax credit transactions, and emerging climate technologies. \nYou would step into work that sits at the center of clean energy financing: tax equity partnership deals, inverted lease and sale -leaseback structures, equipment safe harbor matters, tax credit transfer transactions, and substantive federal tax credit advice. The practice spans wind, solar, storage, geothermal, nuclear, advanced manufacturing, EV charging, carbon capture, and other next -generation energy infrastructure. This role is open across San Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and Seattle.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage tax -driven energy transactions from structuring through closing.Advise developers, sponsors, and financing parties on tax equity and transferable credit deals.Work closely with lawyers across corporate, debt, securitization, and broader project finance teams on sophisticated clean energy matters.Requirements

6+ years of tax equity transactional experience at a national law firm.Strong command of partnership flip transactions, inverted leases, sale -leasebacks, safe harbor structures, tax credit transfers, and written federal tax advice.Candidates with sponsor -side experience are especially well placed, but investor -side lawyers looking to pivot into a more sponsor -oriented practice should also take a serious look.