Bluesource Sustainable Forests Company is now Aurora Sustainable Lands. Read more.
About Aurora Sustainable Lands
Aurora Sustainable Lands is a carbon-first company that invests in industrially harvested forests to deliver high-integrity, verifiable carbon credits to climate conscious companies.
Leaders in Sustainable Land Management
By managing historically industrial U.S. forestlands with a carbon-first strategy, Aurora protects the planet’s oldest and most cost-effective carbon removal tool, trees, to provide nature-based carbon credits with unrivaled reliability, durability, and quality. Anew Climate markets the carbon credits generated from Aurora’s projects.
Aurora's history
Established in 2021 and completed approximately $1.7 billion in transformative acquisitions to date, Aurora, formerly Blue Source Sustainable Forests Company, is a joint venture between Anew Climate and a group of equity investors led by Oak Hill Advisors and including AB CarVal, EIG and GenZero, among other leading financial sponsors.
Aurora’s mission
To actively manage and conserve forestlands to maximize impact and remove and store carbon from the atmosphere.
Leadership
Aurora is led by a team of seasoned experts with decades of experience in forestry, ecology, finance, project development, and carbon markets who have come together to lead an evolution of an industry.
Board of Managers
Bill Easter
Independent
Adam Kertzner
Oak Hill Advisors
Greg Leveto
Oak Hill Advisors
Angela Schwarz
Anew Climate
Bill Townsend
Anew Climate
About Aurora: Aurora Sustainable Lands (Aurora) is one of the world’s leading carbon removals platforms and climate-focused asset managers. To date, Aurora has acquired over 1.6 million acres of U.S. forestland with a history of industrial logging and now manages these lands with a “carbon first” management strategy that focuses on maximizing natural carbon removal and storage potential. By actively managing with this strategy and utilizing cutting edge proprietary technologies (e.g., satellite imagery, remote sensing and machine learning), Aurora taps into the oldest and most effective carbon removal tool, trees, to offer nature-based carbon credits with unrivaled reliability, durability, and quality and at an unprecedent scale.
Aurora was founded in the fall of 2021 by Anew Climate, a leading climate solutions provider, and a group of equity investors led by Oak Hill Advisors and including AB CarVal, EIG and GenZero, among other leading financial sponsors, with the objective of uniting land ownership with deep forest carbon and asset management expertise to lead an evolution in forestry and land management.
To date, Aurora has raised over $1.7 billion in debt and equity capital to support its mission to actively manage and conserve American forestlands to maximize impact and remove and store carbon from the atmosphere.
Job Summary: Aurora seeks an Associate General Counsel to support the General Counsel and the company’s broader legal, business development and growth objectives. This is a unique opportunity to join a growth company that is working to reinvent two industries and lead a paradigm shift in the way land and forests in particular are managed.
The Associate General Counsel would also act as a trusted legal advisor to the Aurora senior leadership team, the board and investors. For the right candidate, the position can provide the opportunity to grow into strategic and commercial leadership roles within the company.
A successful candidate will have top academic and practice credentials. Success at Aurora will require a high degree of energy, creativity, intellectual curiosity and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to independently lead complex projects and transactions from inception to closing.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable spending most of their time in the Houston office but will also enjoy opportunities to put on work boots and visit the woods.
Requirements:
- J.D. from a top 25 law school.
- 4-8 years of transactional experience practicing at an Am Law 50 corporate law firm.
- Either private equity/M&A/capital markets experience or asset and land transactional experience.
- Active bar license in the state in which you currently reside.
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience with carbon, environmental markets and/or nature-based climate solutions.
- Experience with forestry, CCUS, renewables and/or energy transition.
- MBA or master's in forestry or environmental science.