Legal Counsel, Fund Formation

Do you want to join a global fund manager in energy infrastructure investments? If so, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is currently looking for a Legal Counsel to join our Fund Formation team based in Copenhagen.

Team
As a member of our Fund Formation team, you will work closely together with a team consisting of 7 skilled and highly qualified colleagues and get broad and direct exposure to our investors as well as many teams in our CIP Platform, including within Investor Relations, New Business, Deal teams as well as within ESG, Finance and Tax. 

You will become part of an agile team, supporting the business through direct interface with some of the most skilled and specialized people within the green energy sector, some of the world’s largest institutional investors and global leading advisors.

Role
In the role, you will be involved across many commercial and legal workstreams and gain deep commercial insight into one of the fastest-growing and best-in-class investment fund management companies globally and become an important part of the high-profile development of CIP’s exciting and rapid growth journey.

In the role, it is expected that you will work individually and take ownership of tasks with the necessary support from the rest of the team.

Responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Design and preparation of investment fund formation processes (e.g. commercial design and legal key terms structuring and negotiation, development and negotiation of complex fund and/or product specific documentation including limited partnership agreements etc.)
• Investor negotiation and onboarding, execution of closings as well as process, transaction and stakeholder management during fundraising processes, etc.
• Structuring, key term negotiation and formation of evergreens, SMAs, co-investment vehicles, continuation vehicles, sponsor investors etc.
• Design and negotiation of other relevant CIP products and related agreements and documentation
• Entity establishment (e.g. documentation, depositary, regulatory registrations etc.)
• Building and maintaining good relationships with relevant stakeholders and advisors globally
• Other ad hoc tasks.

You
We are looking for a candidate with a degree in Law, Business Law or similar, and a minimum of 5-6 years’ relevant experience within e.g. fund formation, private equity, fund management, alternative investment funds or similar.

We look for the following in a candidate:

• Good process management skills with attention to details
• Great interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Ability to navigate and thrive in dynamic and high-performance environments
• Solution-orientated approach and great methodological and problem-solving skills
• Committed and have a deep sense of work ownership
• Fluent in English both verbally and in writing.

The process

Please apply online as soon as possible as applications will be processed on an ongoing basis. For questions related to the role, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at talent@cipfs.com. We do not include CV's and Cover Letters sent by email.

As we continue to improve our candidate experience, diversity and avoid unconscious bias, please avoid having a photo in your CV. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality for all applicants.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations and ownership.

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Building value that matters 
Founded in 2012, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S (CIP) today is the world’s largest dedicated fund manager within greenfield renewable energy investments and a global leader in offshore wind. To date, CIP has developed and constructed more than +50 greenfield renewable projects around the world. CIP is developing a greenfield project portfolio of ~160GW total, and ~16 GW is in operation or under construction. CIP manages 13 funds and has to date raised approximately EUR ~35 billion for investments in energy and associated infrastructure from more than ~200 international institutional investors. 
 
CIP has a multinational team of ~500 full-time employees with extensive experience and knowledge within the fields of renewable energy project development and regulated infrastructure. In addition, CIP has a broad range of competencies within corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, engineering, construction, project development, and project management.  

CIP has built a prominent investment team capable of originating proprietary investment opportunities and executing projects and investments based on the team’s industrial background, large industrial network, and extensive experience in structuring, executing, and managing investments within energy infrastructure. Headquartered in Copenhagen, CIP also operates from key locations across the globe, including offices in Hamburg, Munich, London, Utrecht, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Luxembourg, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Singapore. In addition, CIP has 17 local project offices globally. 
 
For more information, visit www.cip.com.