Legal Advisor - Capital Markets
Legal Advisor - Capital Markets
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Job Description
We are looking for a Frenchqualified lawyer with a first experience in Capital markets or related securities issuance settlement or custody business.
You will be a member of the Legal Division of Euroclear SA which is the holding company of the Euroclear Group. Together with an international group of lawyers you will provide support to mainly the ESES CSDs entities: Euroclear France Euroclear Belgium and Euroclear Nederland. You will also have the opportunity to support the other entities of the group and work with senior lawyers across the division.
Your main responsibilities will be to handle legal aspects of ESES CSDs such as:
- daytoday business queries (related to the legal treatment of e.g. corporate actions new issues or settlement activity)
- contractual matters
- regulatory matters
- corporate law
- compliance law.
You will also assist with projects which are mostly internationally orientated and can relate to settlement corporate actions collateral management or corporate law.
We are a dynamic team of lawyers with a great team spirit willing to work in a good atmosphere.
Role
As ESES Legal Advisor your tasks will include:
- advising (internal) clients with daytoday business queries
- providing legal and regulatory analysis and advice with respect to the existing or new service offering of the ESES CSDs
- cooperating with the lawyers of different Euroclear Group entities for transversal items
- participating in the legal training offering
- drafting and negotiating contracts with service providers counterparts and clients.
Technical skills
We are looking for a lawyer with a degree from a French university:
- with a minimum 35 years of relevant experience in the capital markets or similar relevant experience (i.e. experience in securities issuance settlement or custody business) preferably gained in the inhouse legal division of a bank broker or other financial institution or in a law firm
- fluent in English;
Soft skills
You are :
a good communicator both orally and in writing
with the ability to integrate quickly in a team
detailedoriented and analytic
pragmatic risk aware and capable to take initiatives
flexible and proactive.
You can participate to the delivery of an high quality support consistent across jurisdictions in a timely pragmatic cost efficient and effective fashion and to build a solid understanding of the business of the Euroclear Group. Together with our colleagues you will help our business grow.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Advisor
