Senior Analyst - Real Estate lawyer - Legal & Compliance

About DESRI

DESRI (formerly D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments) is a market-leading owner and operator of renewable energy projects throughout the United States. We have acquired or developed approximately 11 gigawatts of contracted capacity across a portfolio of over 70 renewable energy projects in 24 states. DESRI is run by a dynamic team with offices located at New York, Denver, and Hyderabad (India).

About the role

We are looking for a talented lawyer to join the India office of DESRI, i.e., DESRI India Private Limited, based in Hyderabad, India. The candidate will be a part of Legal Compliance team and will regularly interact with the U.S. and Hyderabad-based teams, as well as external parties. The candidate will be a part of a small, inclusive, highly skilled team responsible for supporting DESRI s portfolio of wind, solar, and storage projects within a dynamic environment that values collaboration, thoughtful problem solving, and attention to detail.

What youll do

In this role, you will be responsible for working on U.S. real estate matters and supporting a dynamic commercial team. In doing so, you will collaborate with developers, deal teams, project managers, landowners, utility companies, and other attorneys within the various offices of DESRI to address ongoing matters pertaining to real estate tasks, including supporting various acquisitions and leasing of land for our projects, managing the legal obligations associated with such land, and engaging with financing entities and other counterparties to facilitate the real estate aspects of the development, financing, and operations. Your day-to-day tasks will evolve to include title review and curative work, where you will extract title commitment exceptions, organize them into structured spreadsheets, identify exception types, assess potential curative actions, and negotiate crossing, encroachment, and easement agreements with third parties. You will also review site control agreements for MA transactions, record key dates and terms, and ensure legal descriptions align with title policies. Additionally, you will prepare and modify pre-negotiated estoppels and assignment assumption agreements for landowners, draft and finalize various notice letters for project milestones, and manage the recording of development-related documents. Beyond these responsibilities, you will contribute to internal training and development by educating business teams on legal policies and procedures, enhancing their understanding of legal and compliance frameworks, trade-offs, and associated documentation.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should hold -

• A Bachelor s Degree in law with a proven record of academic achievement and 2-3 years of experience, including preparing initial title review/title curative lists, drafting standard crossing agreements, easements, lease agreements, landowner estoppels, assignment assumption agreements, notice letters, document recording, and maintaining site control spreadsheets
• Experience with a law firm and the real estate sector.
• Well-developed analytical abilities, communication and organizational skills, and attention to detail, along with a deep interest in exploring and learning new areas of the law.
• A keen sense of judgement, a demonstrated ability to take initiative, and collaborate with colleagues in support of highly complex transactions.
• Exposure to the renewable energy sector.