Junior Legal Counsel
Amsterdam, NL, 1062 KR
About the job
As our new Junior Legal Counsel, you bring about two years of experience of corporate legal matters and corporate housekeeping (gained at a law firm, company, or services provider), including
- Board and shareholder resolutions
- Board meetings
- Powers of attorney
- Advice on director liability/responsibility
- Decision-making with supervisory boards and works councils
- Filings with commercial registers in different jurisdictions
This will be your second career step and because you were primarily focused on corporate legal matters, you’ll need not much guidance there and are happy to add value for about 40% of the time We will help you expand your base of experience into commercial matters as well, for about the remaining 60%, growing towards full Legal Counsel over the next years. This will include:
Contracting
- Advice on negotiation (or leading the negotiation) of all kinds of contracts NDAs, Sales agreements, purchase agreements, tolling, agency, distribution, EPC, FIDIC, research, etc. effectively any B2B agreement.
- Drafting, amending, updating the above
- Eventual provision of trainings on the above subjects
- Advice on termination and/or business queries related to contracts
Disputes
- Advising the business on pre-trial settlements
- Drafting of communication (claim letters, rebuttals, settlement discussions)
- Managing external counsel where matters go to trial
- Management of costs
- Management of communication with the business
- Input on strategic choices, appeals, settlement offers etc.
About you
Besides holding a master’s degree in law, you are fluent in English (preferably near native). French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian or other languages (in order of preference) at a level sufficient to perform job competencies (i.e. high) will be considered favorably but are not a must.
Apply now!
Do you recognize yourself in the above description? Does the job appeal to you? Then we’d love to see your application! Click on "Apply now" button and upload your resume and cover letter online.
• We can only accept applications through our online process.
For any questions about the recruitment process, please Paul Binnekade, TA Partner, via paul.binnekade@icl-group.com.