Development Counsel, Data Centers & Energy Infrastructure.
Hut 8
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Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Legal Counsel (Real Estate & Development) role will provide legal support across the company’s Data Center and Energy Infrastructure portfolio. This is a hands-on, high-volume role focused on the front end of the development lifecycle: site control, diligence, and deal execution. You will work directly with our development, operations, asset management, energy origination and strategic financing teams, serving as their primary legal counterpart.
Key Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate letters of intent, land options, purchase agreements, easements, access agreements, tax abatement agreements, shared facilities agreements, construction contracts, long lead equipment procurement agreements, costs in aid of construction agreements, interconnection agreements and other ancillary development documents.
- Provide legal support on project finance and real estate loan transactions, including loan documents, infrastructure agreements, power-related agreements, and leases with data center end users.
- Manage the documentation lifecycle for the company’s data center development and energy infrastructure projects, ensuring all agreements are executed with precision and align with the company’s strategic objectives.
- Act as the primary legal liaison for the development, operations, asset management, energy origination and strategic financing teams.
- Coordinate with outside counsel, title agents, surveyors, and environmental consultants to ensure that every site is thoroughly vetted and prepared for commercialization.
- Conduct and coordinate legal due diligence, including review of title commitments, ALTA surveys, environmental reports, and zoning analyses.
ABOUT YOU
- You have a rigorous, detail-oriented approach to reviewing title, survey, environmental, and zoning reports for large-scale infrastructure or energy projects.
- You excel at managing high-volume document workflows, tracking critical deadlines, and maintaining strict version control across multiple simultaneous site acquisitions.
- You are a strategic thinker with a practical, business-oriented approach to legal issues.
- You are comfortable working directly with non-legal teams and can translate complex legal issues into clear guidance that helps inform commercial decisions.
- You thrive in fast-paced, deal-intensive environments and take ownership of your workstreams from first draft through closing.
Qualifications
- Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. State and a member in good standing of one U.S. Bar.
- 3+ years of experience in commercial real estate, infrastructure, or energy law, with a focus on land acquisition, site control, and transactional diligence.
- Proven track record of drafting and negotiating front-end real estate documents: LOIs, purchase options, purchase and sale agreements, easements, and access agreements.
- Experience coordinating with title companies, surveyors, and environmental consultants on large-scale land or infrastructure transactions.
- Familiarity with project finance or real estate loan transactions is a plus.
- Experience in data center, energy, or digital infrastructure is a plus but not required.
ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT
This role is in office at our corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
About this role
Hut 8 is building large-scale data centers for AI, cloud, and Bitcoin mining, and this role puts you at the center of that expansion. As Development Counsel, you'll handle the legal groundwork for the company's data center and energy infrastructure projects—everything from site acquisition through deal closing. You'll draft and negotiate purchase agreements, easements, construction contracts, interconnection agreements, and loan documents while coordinating with development, operations, financing, and energy teams. This is a high-volume, front-end focused position where you own the documentation lifecycle and serve as the primary legal liaison across multiple simultaneous projects.
The role demands someone with at least three years of commercial real estate, infrastructure, or energy law experience, with proven skill in land acquisition, site control, and transactional diligence. You'll need to be comfortable reviewing title commitments, surveys, environmental reports, and zoning analyses with rigor, managing tight deadlines across many moving pieces, and translating legal complexity into clear business guidance for non-legal teams. Project finance or real estate lending experience is valuable; data center or energy background is a plus but not required.
Based in Miami's Brickell area, this is an in-office position at a company built on entrepreneurial energy and transparency. You'll work alongside people from software, energy, engineering, finance, and consulting backgrounds, with access to a leadership team of serial entrepreneurs and a board of industry veterans.
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