Our client, BNP Paribas Fortis, is the no. 1 bank in Belgium with approx. 11,000 employees, and offers a comprehensive package of financial services to private individuals, self-employed, professional clients, and SMEs.
The Bank also provides high net worth individuals, corporates, public and financial institutions with customised solutions, for which it is able to draw on the know-how and international network of its mother company, BNP Paribas.
Within Legal, the Legal Capital Markets team (Legal CM) provides legal transactional and advisory services to the corporate & institutional clients’ business teams in relation to derivatives (standardised Master Agreements and bespoke transactions), securities (stand-alone and syndicated issues of various types of bonds, both plain vanilla and structured), commercial paper, securitisation, assets & liabilities management, securities financing and equity transactions.
It works closely with the Legal Invest team in charge of retail and private banking activities, as well as with other internal support and control functions (Compliance, Tax, Risk). It also provides support and collaborates with other entities within the BNP Paribas Group via the legal derivatives and securities platforms set up at Group level.
The Legal Department of BNP Paribas Fortis (that is composed of approx. 70 persons) is now looking for a lawyer having an experience in banking and financial law in relation to corporate and institutional clients, ideally in the capital markets area.