Assistant General Counsel - Commercial Transactions
- Regular/Permanent
- USA / Maryland
- In Office
- Apply Before 6/2/2025
Welcome to Orano
Helping to meet current and future challenges to preserve our world and build the world of tomorrow while taking care of everyone's health is stimulating for you. For us too. By joining the Orano Group, a leading international player in the nuclear industry, you are in the right place.
Every day we work to produce efficient low-carbon energy, to fight global warming, to find solutions that save natural resources, and to contribute to progress in health.
Our strengths? Across the entire fuel cycle, we have extensive expertise in cutting-edge technologies, safe, high value-added products and services, and a strong capacity for innovation. All of these factors reflect the strong skills of our 17,000 employees, whom we are constantly striving to develop. With their different backgrounds and experience, they are proof of our openness to all talents. They share the same ambition: to give nuclear energy its full value.
Every day we work to produce efficient low-carbon energy, to fight global warming, to find solutions that save natural resources, and to contribute to progress in health.
Our strengths? Across the entire fuel cycle, we have extensive expertise in cutting-edge technologies, safe, high value-added products and services, and a strong capacity for innovation. All of these factors reflect the strong skills of our 17,000 employees, whom we are constantly striving to develop. With their different backgrounds and experience, they are proof of our openness to all talents. They share the same ambition: to give nuclear energy its full value.
Job description
Join Orano – Shaping a Sustainable Future Together
About the Role
We are seeking a detail-oriented Assistant General Counsel with 12+ years of experience to join our legal team in Bethesda, Maryland. This role includes lead responsibility for providing legal advice and representation on a wide range of transactional matters, including supporting the negotiation and structuring of various commercial transactions, providing strategic legal guidance on commercial agreements, government contracts, and partnerships, drafting sales contracts and vendor agreements, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, and resolving commercial disputes. Additional responsibilities may include managing litigation, and providing legal advice and representation on regulatory compliance, administrative law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, international law, nuclear energy law and policy, employment law, ethics, and fiscal law. The role will report to the General Counsel and include extensive engagement with executives and managers across the company.
Core Responsibilities
Legal:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, including for example, sales contracts, vendor agreements, partnership agreements, joint ventures, license agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.
- Ensure that the company’s practices comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Provide strategic legal counsel on commercial agreements, government contracts, and regulatory matters
- Identify and assess potential legal risks associated with commercial activities and develop strategies to mitigate those risks.
- Resolve disputes with customers, vendors, partners and other third parties, and manage litigation when needed
- Manage outside counsel when specialized expertise is required
- Assist with legal department initiatives, including process improvements and knowledge management
Our Full-Time Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance – with generous employer contributions
- 401(k) with employer matching and contribution amounts
- Life insurance and Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance provided by the company
- Generous Paid Time Off and holiday schedules
- Numerous Training and Development opportunities
- and more…
Ideal qualifications
All candidates must meet the following minimum requirements in order to be considered for this opportunity. Candidates who exceed minimum qualifications may be considered for a higher-level position.
Required Qualifications
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership
- 12+ years of legal experience, with demonstrated legal expertise and experience in transactions with commercial entities, commercial contracts, government contracts, regulatory matters, financial assistance law, negotiations, and dispute resolution
- Significant experience in litigation, administrative law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and international law strongly preferred
- Significant experience in nuclear energy law or other areas of energy law strongly preferred
- Strong analytical mindset with exceptional attention to detail
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Significant experience advising government or corporate executives
- Strong business acumen and ability to balance legal risk with business objectives
- Excellent contract drafting, reviewing, and negotiation skills
What We Offer
- Competitive salary range: $155K - $225K, plus bonus (The provided salary information is a guideline. Your offered salary is based upon experience, qualifications, geo)
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Professional development opportunities
- Opportunity to shape the future of sustainable energy
Orano is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Orano USA LLC
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Orano USA is a leading technology and services provider for decommissioning shutdown nuclear energy facilities, managing used nuclear fuel, conducting federal site clean-up and closure, and the sale of uranium, conversion, and enrichment services to the U.S. commercial and federal markets. In the nuclear medicine field, Orano Med is developing a new generation of targeted therapies against cancer using the unique properties of lead-212 (212Pb), a rare alpha-emitting radioisotope and one of the more potent therapeutic payloads against cancer cells. https://www.orano.group/usa
