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Karbone

Legal Counsel, Energy Trading

Karbone, New York, New York, us, 10261

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This range is provided by Karbone. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range $135,000.00/yr - $185,000.00/yr

About Us: Karbone Inc. is an award-winning liquidity services provider for energy transition and environmental commodity markets. Since 2008, we have offered integrated and innovative revenue hedging, risk management, and market advisory solutions to a global suite of clients across energy markets. Our teams are proudly ranked first amongst their peers and are all dedicated toward our core mission of providing our clients and partners with the necessary market access, liquidity solutions, and commercial insight to help them succeed in the new energy transition.

About the Role: Karbone is seeking a motivated Legal Counsel to support our energy trading, origination and environmental commodities business. This position is based in New York, NY and will report to the General Counsel. This is a hands‑on, business-facing position where you will have direct exposure to transactions across physical and financial power, capacity, RECs, carbon, renewable fuels and other environmental products.

Responsibilities:

Draft, review, and negotiate master trading agreements, credit support arrangements, transaction confirmations, NDAs, and other commercial contracts.

Redline terms, propose alternatives, and balance commercial objectives with legal risk.

Identify and manage legal risk across commercial and trading relationships.

Provide light‑touch oversight and legal support on regulatory issues relevant to the business (e.g., CFTC, FERC) where relevant.

Work with Middle Office operations on adherence to internal policies and market rules.

Requirements:

2+ years of relevant legal experience including experience negotiating, reviewing, revising, drafting and negotiating contracts.

Law degree from an accredited law school.

Experience working with physical and financial energy commodities (Power, Capacity, Environmental Products, Renewable Fuels, etc.) highly preferred.

Understanding of master trading documentation (such as ISDA, EEI, etc.) and knowledge of core regulatory frameworks for derivatives and energy markets (FERC, CFTC, Dodd-Frank, RTOs/ISOs, etc.) preferred but not required.

Exceptional written communication skills and strong attention to detail.

The estimated base salary for this position is estimated to be between $135,000 - $185,000, depending on experience. Total compensation includes comprehensive benefits and bonus eligibility.

Seniority level Associate

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Legal

Industries Financial Services and Services for Renewable Energy

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Location: New York, NY

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