Lawyer jobs in Houston, TX

About the role

You will own the legal workstream for Vaulted’s partnerships end-to-end — from term sheet through definitive documentation through post-closing amendments — as our senior in-house counsel for partnership transactions. You will lead a two-person legal team, managing a Corporate Counsel and a Contract Specialist (paralegal), and will draft and negotiate directly against sophisticated counterparties (and their counsel), with the expectation that routine and mid-complexity deals are papered fully in-house.

What you'll bring

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• licensed and in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (Texas admission or ability to register as in-house counsel)
• 8–12 years of transactional experience in energy, infrastructure, environmental/waste, or project development — at a major law firm, in-house at a sponsor/developer, or both
• Demonstrated first-chair experience drafting and negotiating JV agreements or comparable complex commercial arrangements without outside counsel support
• Fluency in commercial risk allocation: indemnities, limitations of liability, insurance requirements, force majeure, default and termination mechanics
• Comfort negotiating against large, sophisticated counterparties and their Big Law counsel
• Experience managing and reviewing the work of junior attorneys and/or paralegals, with the judgment to delegate effectively and the willingness to remain hands-on in documents
• Ability to operate independently in a lean, fast-moving company — you and your team are the legal function for this workstream
• Carbon markets or CDR experience — we will teach you the industry
• we need you to already know how to paper the deals
• Strongly preferred
• Experience with waste management, environmental services, or adjacent industries