Lawyer - Litigation Regulatory

We are looking for a Lawyer with 1- 4 years’ experience to join our Tier 1 Financial Services and Insurance sector team in Belgium.

Our clients include financial institutions, scale-ups, and private equity houses. The team is part of a wider Belgian and European team and frequently acts on deals involving our worldwide colleagues, giving our clients access to one of the largest teams in the world.
DLA Piper will invest in your long-term future to ensure you achieve your potential. This includes top-quality work that will challenge and stretch you, regular career conversations and feedback, a clear pathway to progression, career academies at every stage of your advancement, secondments, CR and pro-bono work, an active social calendar and a market-leading salary/benefits package and bonus scheme.

As a lawyer within Financial Services and Insurance sector team, you will assist our clients in national and international matters, including:

• financial services and insurance regulatory advisory
• litigation, compliance and enforcement matters: represent our clients in civil, criminal and administrative legal proceedings in the financial services and insurance sector (e.g. funding loss, market practices, consumer protection, misselling, money laundering, liability of financial institutions and their management)
• contract drafting and negotiation: assist clients with drafting and negotiating their contracts in relation to financial services, insurances, funds, in a B2B (e.g. service, outsourcing, distribution and custody agreements) and B2C context (e.g. general terms and conditions, credit and loan documentation), taking into account general consumer protective and commercial laws
• transactional work within the financial services and insurance sector 

• Candidates who have between 1– 4 years’ experience are likely to have the right level of knowledge and have gained the right level of experience needed to be able to undertake this role. 
• Candidates should be able to demonstrate that they have/are:
• Belgian Master’s degree in Law, and preferably an LLM obtained abroad
• Qualified to practice as a Lawyer in Belgium 
• Strong and consistent academic track record
• 1 – 4 years of relevant experience within a top tier law firm or the legal department of a financial institution (commercial law, litigation, corporate law, insurance law and/or financial services law)
• A particular interest in the banking and insurance industry
• Native Dutch speaker with excellent command of English, and a good knowledge of French
• A practical, hands-on team player
• High work standards with strong service orientation
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent legal and technical skills
• Well organised, proactive and flexible 
• Accuracy, confidentiality and punctuality are second nature to you
• Keen on working in a dynamic, fast paced yet demanding, rewarding and international context
• Ability to prioritise and efficiently deal with complex files

This job description is not designed to be exhaustive and can be varied as required to develop or fulfil this role.
The firm offers excellent training, learning and development programmes, as well as a genuine opportunity to experience a wide range of work and clients in a friendly, supportive environment.

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative – we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold – we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional – we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.