Assistant General Counsel, Partner, Data Center Development & Real Estate at Hut 8

<div class="content-intro"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><p><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE</strong></p> <p>The Assistant General Counsel of Real Estate and Development role serves as the company’s lead lawyer for real estate development, construction, financing and operations related to its data center portfolio.&nbsp;&nbsp;This role holds direct legal ownership over assigned powered-land development sites from early-stage selection through commercialization and delivery of a fully operational data center. Partnering daily with our development, operations, asset management and strategic finance teams, you will drive the legal strategy across all development phases with a balanced focus on speed, risk management, and absolute execution certainty. You will lead high-stakes negotiations for site acquisition, complex construction and development agreements, data center leasing agreements, joint venture agreements and sophisticated financing.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive legal strategy and maintain ownership of legal matters across all data center development phases, serving as the central legal point for the deal team.</li> <li>Work closely with internal stakeholders, including development, operations, asset management and strategic finance teams, to align legal strategies with the company’s business goals and project timelines.</li> <li>Draft, review, and negotiate complex real estate agreements, including&nbsp;purchase and sale agreements, leases, joint venture agreements, loan documents, construction contracts, purchase options, easements, and access agreements.</li> <li>Supervise site diligence workstreams across title, survey, environmental, geotech, and zoning, coordinating directly with the development team and internal/external legal team members.</li> <li>Lead and support all legal matters related to project financing and debt raises.</li> <li>Provide legal counsel across all phases of data center construction, including design, execution, construction, construction management and commissioning.</li> <li>Draft, review, and negotiate complex construction contracts including design build agreements and guaranteed maximum price contracts.</li> <li>Manage legal matters related to construction claims, liens, delays, defects, and site safety compliance.</li> <li>Direct outside counsel and manage project legal budgets</li> <li>Invest in training, mentoring, and scaling of the legal counsel and paralegal support resources.</li> </ul> <p><strong>ABOUT YOU</strong></p> <ul> <li>You have a rigorous, detail-oriented approach to reviewing title, survey, environmental, and zoning reports for large-scale infrastructure or energy projects.</li> <li>You excel at managing high-volume document workflows, tracking critical deadlines, and maintaining strict version control across multiple simultaneous site acquisitions.</li> <li>You are a strategic thinker with a practical, business-oriented approach to legal issues.</li> <li>You are comfortable working directly with non-legal teams and can translate complex legal issues into clear guidance that helps inform commercial decisions.&nbsp;</li> <li>You thrive in fast-paced, deal-intensive environments and take ownership of your workstreams from first draft through closing.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. State and a member in good standing of one U.S. Bar.</li> <li>Minimum of 10 years of legal experience, with a significant portion in commercial real estate development, construction, and/or data center industries. In-house experience strongly preferred.</li> <li>Expertise in complex commercial real estate development transactions including joint ventures, sophisticated project finance transactions, leasing and construction.</li> <li>Excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication (written and verbal) skills.</li> <li>Familiarity with data center specific legal issues, including triple net data center leases, colocation agreements and SLAs, is highly desirable.</li> <li>Strategic thinker with a practical, business-oriented approach to legal issues.</li> <li>Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT</strong></p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW3104751 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW3104751 BCX0">This role is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW3104751 BCX0">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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW3104751 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:288}">&nbsp;</span></p>