Sr. Corporate Counsel at Targa Resources in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

POSITION SUMMARY:

The candidate will join the Legal Team and will interact with and support various groups across the Company, with a primary focus on legal advice and support for all commercial aspects of Targa’s logistics and transportation/NGL business, including contracts for the purchase and sale, exchange, transportation, storage, terminalling, fractionation, export, and distribution of natural gas liquids, and Targa’s coastal natural gas gathering and processing business, including contracts for the purchase, sale, gathering and processing of natural gas.  This position will also partner with other attorneys across the Targa Team on various transactional and asset related matters, and will manage other projects within the Legal Team.

JOB FUNCTIONS AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Negotiate and drafting agreements for the purchase, sale, and exchange of natural gas liquids and/or other petroleum products


• Negotiate and drafting various midstream agreements related to natural gas, natural gas liquids, and/or other petroleum products, including agreements for the gathering, processing, transportation (by pipeline, rail, motor carrier, and/or marine vessel), storage, terminalling, fractionation and/or processing of such products, as well as pipeline interconnect agreements, access agreements, and real estate agreements


• Counsel business clients regarding business arrangements and commercial agreements


• Assist with and provide legal advice related to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including due diligence activities


• Counsel clients regarding joint venture agreements


• Work as a team with business clients and other attorneys to respond to commercial demands and achieve business objectives

MINIMUM ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Juris Doctorate, licensed to practice law in Texas or Oklahoma (or can become immediately eligible to be admitted to the State Bar of Texas/Oklahoma)


• 4 – 10 years of legal experience, with substantial law firm experience preferred


• Strong academic background


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, legal analysis, drafting, and negotiation


• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic legal environment and respond quickly to commercial demands


• Commercial, pragmatic, and flexible approach, and ability to quickly grasp complex commercial arrangements


• Willingness to provide or experience providing legal advice to senior level business leaders


• Ability to develop and sustain relationships with clients at all levels


• Proven track record as a team player


• Team attitude that no job is too big or too small


• Thrives in an environment where you need to roll-up your sleeves and own outcomes.


• Ability to strike sensible and practical balance between legal risks and the need to do business


• Adept at working in a fast-paced, high activity environment with smart and creative people


• Strong ability to influence, provide point of view and to listen


• Ability to handle ambiguity, juggle many matters at once and quickly shift from one situation or task to another


• Solution oriented


• Talent for thinking outside of the box in confronting new issues and pursuing novel approaches to old problems


• Regular and reliable attendance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience negotiating and drafting various midstream agreements related to natural gas, natural gas liquids, and/or other petroleum products, including agreements for the gathering, transportation (by pipeline, rail, motor carrier, and/or marine vessel), storage, terminalling, fractionation and/or processing of such products, as well as pipeline interconnect agreements, access agreements, and real estate agreements


• Experience with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including due diligence activities


• Basic understanding of Federal and state regulation of common carrier natural gas liquids or petroleum liquid pipelines


• Negotiating, drafting, and/or administering joint venture agreements

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees’ beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa’s policies and applicable law. We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.