Changing firms mid-career—or returning to private practice after serving in government or in-house roles—can be an incredibly exciting time. Transitioning your practice at a time of your career marked by substantial growth means you need a firm who will set you up for success.
By joining Wilson Sonsini, you’ll have a global platform and an incredibly dynamic client base on which to grow your business. And our robust lateral integration efforts and associate training academies will ensure that you don’t miss a step on your way up the ladder.
Join our elite team of corporate life sciences lawyers. We work with exciting biotech companies, guiding and supporting them from inception, through funding, and on to the IPO process and life as public company, or sale. We are looking for corporate attorneys with 6 plus years of experience for an associate or of counsel position with background and interest in the incredibly dynamic world of life sciences, including biotech, genomics, pharma, therapeutics, AI drug discovery, and more. Desired expertise includes an ability to advise companies through the start-up and venture capital phase, IPOs and equity capital markets, public company reporting, and M&A. Expect to manage a varied team of associates that support you. You will gain deep and broad experience working directly with clients bringing world-changing products and technologies to market. This is a fun and collaborative group!
Our Energy & Climate Solutions (ECS) practice pioneered the utility-scale wind and solar industries, helped create residential solar, energy storage, and EV industries, and are working with project developers and sponsors in a broad range of clean technologies from solar, wind and battery storage to nuclear, hydrogen, and carbon capture, utilization and sequestration projects throughout the United States and abroad. We do not represent the oil and gas industry, LNG terminals or pipeline owners, or vertically-integrated utilities that resist the energy transition, competition, or the climate imperative. We are unique in our mission-driven focus on clean energy and climate-friendly related projects, technologies, and business models, representing disruptors and innovators and those who finance them.
If you are a renewable energy project finance attorney with 6-8 years of substantial transactional experience who shares our passion for the mission, we want to hear from you. Your expertise will include asset backed securitization or asset backed lending representing sponsors, borrowers, lenders, or investors in the renewable energy industry, with a focus on project finance and/or structured asset-based finance and non-recourse lending transactions. Experience in tax equity in solar, wind, and energy storage project assets is preferred, but we welcome experience in adjacent project or structured financing areas if you have an interest in developing a broad expertise in financing in renewable energy projects and portfolios. You will join a collaborative team and have the opportunity to assume a high level of responsibility, working closely with experienced partners who actively engage in mentoring.
Wilson Sonsini’s market-leading Energy & Climate Solutions Practice has an exciting opening for a renewable energy project finance associate with 3-6 years of law firm experience focusing on project finance and/or structured asset-based finance and non-recourse lending transactions. You will have experience representing sponsors, borrowers, lenders, or investors in the renewable energy industry. Capitalize on your experience in tax equity in solar, wind, and energy storage project assets or your interest in developing a broad expertise in financing in renewable energy projects and portfolios.
Our ECS Practice is unique in its mission-driven focus on clean energy and climate-friendly related projects, technologies, and business models, representing disruptors and innovators and those who finance them. We do not represent the oil and gas industry, LNG terminals or pipeline owners, or vertically-integrated utilities that resist the energy transition, competition, or the climate imperative.
You will gain a wide range of project and structured finance experience (as well as renewable energy development experience if you would like), working directly with clients ranging from start-ups to the world’s leading international infrastructure investors with some of the industry’s leading and most innovative companies. Associates have an opportunity to be part of a collaborative team and work closely with senior lawyers who provide active mentoring.
Join Wilson Sonsini’s ECVC practice in San Francisco focusing on emerging companies and the investors who support them! You will lead transactions and interact directly with founders, CEOs, management teams and boards of directors at our company-side clients as well as interact directly with our VC and other investor-side clients. Candidates with a demonstrated interest in these growth industries and 5-7 years of ECVC experience would make a great addition to our team.
If you would like to submit an application to Wilson Sonsini, but do not see an active posting for the office or practice you are interested in, please apply here.
Our Academies are the cornerstone of our professional development programming. The academies are offered for associates in their first, third, fifth, and seventh years. There is also an academy for summer associates and one for those who have newly joined our member ranks. Conducted as multi-day conferences and held…
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Every firm has its own insider knowledge base—the quirks and ways of working that are hard to understand until you actually work there. Wherever possible, we try to tell you about those quirks as you’re researching us so that you can get a better understanding of how we operate. Which leads us to answer the question: At Wilson Sonsini, what do we mean by “neighborhoods”?
