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Job description
Our client is a specialist search firm focused on energy, infrastructure, power, renewables, and adjacent investment platforms. We partner with sponsors, developers, operators, and funds on highly consultative, senior‑level searches across investment, finance, and legal.
We are hiring a Principal or Director to build and scale our Legal Practice in New York. This is a senior, revenue‑generating role suited to an experienced legal recruiter with an established network, strong business development capability, and clear sector credibility. The role sits at the intersection of legal talent and real asset investing, supporting clients operating in regulated, capital‑intensive, and transaction‑driven environments.
The Role
This position operates as a true 360 consultant role, with responsibility for originating, winning, and delivering retained and contingent legal search mandates.
You will play a central role in building out our clients legal capability, with a particular focus on in‑house legal hiring across energy and infrastructure platforms, where legal teams are critical to enabling investment, development, financing, and asset operations.
Typical mandates will include:
AGC / DGC hires supporting platform build‑outs and geographic expansion
Senior Counsel hires across project finance, M&A, regulatory, and commercial functions
Legal team builds within PE‑backed developers, IPPs, infrastructure funds, and portfolio companies
Strategic hires aligned to energy transition, grid modernization, and large‑scale capital deployment
The role offers significant autonomy, market visibility, and the opportunity to shape a core practice area within an entrepreneurial firm.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and manage senior client relationships across energy, infrastructure, power, renewables, and fund platforms
Originate and win new legal search mandates through proactive, relationship‑led business development
Lead complex, consultative searches for in‑house legal roles including AGC, DGC, Senior Counsel, and specialist positions
Advise clients on market mapping, compensation benchmarking, team design, and succession planning within regulated and transaction-heavy environments
Provide insight into legal team structuring across asset lifecycles (development, financing, construction, operations, and asset management)
Collaborate with partners and peers to share relationships, market intelligence, and cross‑platform opportunities
Ideal Background
5+ years’ experience in legal recruitment in a 360 capacity
Operating at Managing Consultant, Principal, or Director level
Demonstrated sector focus in energy, infrastructure, power, renewables, or adjacent private equity / fund environments
Strong understanding of in‑house legal hiring, particularly within PE‑backed, M&A‑driven, or asset‑heavy businesses
Experience placing roles across project finance, M&A, regulatory, and commercial legal functions
An existing, portable book of business with client relationships that can be leveraged from day one
Strong business development capability and commercial ownership
Clear sector credibility within energy, infrastructure, and/or fund platforms
Collaborative, low‑ego, high‑accountability mindset
What Success Looks Like
Independently originating mandates and expanding client coverage across target sectors
Building trusted, long‑term advisory relationships rather than transactional placements
Adding incremental BD momentum and sector reach to the platform
Establishing our client as a go‑to advisor for in‑house legal hiring within energy & infrastructure
Contributing to a collaborative culture where relationships, ideas, and successes are shared
Why Join
Deep sector specialism with genuine market credibility across energy and infrastructure
Highly consultative, relationship‑driven search model
Entrepreneurial environment offering autonomy, flexibility, and room to build
Opportunity to play a visible role in shaping and scaling a core practice area
Direct investment and sponsorship from the executive leadership team to build out the Legal Practice as a core growth vertical
Access to shared client relationships, live mandates, and cross‑sell opportunities to accelerate desk build‑out and revenue generation
Ongoing support across hiring, marketing, and infrastructure to enable rapid scaling of the practice
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
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