Senior Legal Counsel

Position: Senior Legal Counsel

Location: Amsterdam, NL

Compensation: Candidate Dependant and Competitive

Responsibilities:

• Drafting and assessing confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, underwriting/placement agreements, legal opinions, comfort letters and other transaction-related documentation.
• Advising on transactions, with an emphasis on investment banking transactions, particularly in the equity capital markets.
• Advising on contract law.
• Advising on various issues relating to the EU Prospectus Regulation, MAD/MAR and generally in the field of financial law relating to investment banking services and products.
• Identifying and anticipating relevant developments in legislation and case law relating to investment banking and supporting their implementation.
• You will also act as a direct sparring partner for the colleagues in other departments such as Compliance.

Your talents:

You are knowledgeable, you are solution-oriented and taking responsibility for your work is a natural part of your approach. This is how we can best describe you as a Senior Legal Counsel.

• At least 4 years of relevant work experience as a lawyer and/or in-house counsel.
• Experience with transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and/or debt advice, at a law firm, a financial institution or a listed company.
• Detailed knowledge of contract, financial and securities law.
• You are practical, solution-oriented and commercially minded and able to translate legal content into pragmatic solutions.
• Good knowledge of the English language, both oral and written.