Legal Counsel & Corporate Governance Manager

As Legal Counsel & Corporate Governance Manager, you will be our first point of call for all legal matters — providing hands-on, end-to-end legal support across the business and optimizing the CFOs bandwidth to focus on core strategic priorities.

This is a highly strategic, commercially integrated role. It is an ideal transition for an external or internal counsel seeking a position to partner directly with business units and drive commercial objectives. You will be embedded in the business, working closely with the CFO as a trusted sparring partner, and progressively taking ownership of the full legal agenda. It is the ideal next step for a lawyer who wants to move in-house, get close to commercial reality, and grow into a true business partner.

Legal Counsel

• Serve as the primary internal legal resource across all areas: commercial contracts, corporate law, employment, IP, regulatory and litigation matters
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of agreements (commercial contracts, NDAs, supplier and customer agreements, partnership deals, licensing)
• Manage external counsel, including defining scopes of work, controlling mandates, ensuring quality assurance of outputs, and reducing external legal spend to an absolute minimum. 
• Identify and proactively manage legal risks across business operations
• Provide pragmatic, day-to-day legal counsel to cross-functional stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Finance, HR) to support business operations. 
• Monitor relevant legislative developments in Belgium and key markets and ensure internal compliance

Corporate Governance

• Organise and administer Board and committee meetings — agendas, board packs, minutes and resolutions
• Coordinate all shareholder interactions, including preparation of documentation, communications and follow-up
• Maintain corporate records, entity structures and statutory filings
• Support the CFO on any M&A, financing or investor-related legal workstreams

ESG & Compliance

• Oversee ESG reporting obligations, coordinating internally to ensure timely and accurate disclosure (CSRD/ESRS)
• Maintain and update internal compliance policies and frameworks

• Master degree of Laws (Belgian or equivalent); admission to the bar is a plus but not required
• 5 years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal role, ideally with exposure to corporate/commercial law
• Strong generalist legal profile — comfortable moving across contract law, corporate governance and regulatory topics
• Pragmatic and solutions-oriented: you give clear, actionable advice rather than purely theoretical analysis
• Excellent stakeholder management — able to translate legal complexity into plain language for non-lawyers
• Native Dutch speaker, with professional proficiency in English; knowledge of French is an asset
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a demonstrated ability to build and scale legal frameworks within a growing business 

• A high-visibility leadership role offering broad operational scope and direct strategic partnership with the CFO. The chance to build and own the legal function of an international, purpose-driven company
• A collaborative and entrepreneurial culture in the heart of Antwerp
• Competitive salary and benefits package