Corporate Associate

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is one of the leading international law firms, with a total staff of approximately 5,000 people, working across 27 offices in 16 countries. We provide a comprehensive worldwide service to Belgian and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments.

Our Brussels office has leading expertise in corporate law, M&A, corporate restructurings, capital markets, banking and finance, antitrust/competition, tax, dispute resolution, real estate and employment law. With a team of over 160 people and 20 different nationalities, we offer a truly international working environment.

Key responsibilities

§ Advising clients on a wide range of corporate and finance law matters;

§ Drafting/negotiating corporate/M&A contracts, as well as equity and debt capital markets documentation;

§ Managing transactions and performing legal due diligences;

§ Managing client relationships;

§ Actively participating in business development activities and client events;

§ Training/managing junior team members.

What we offer

§ You will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of challenging projects together with our corporate partners. You will also closely cooperate with other members of our competition, finance, tax, employment, dispute resolution, real estate and regulatory teams based in Brussels and in other Freshfields offices for multijurisdictional transactions.

§ Our structured network allows new legal developments to be shared rapidly among the teams, which is a real added value for our clients and for our lawyers.

§ Regular participation in international technical and personal skills trainings taking place in different parts of the world bringing together lawyers from all around the network.

§ In addition to the challenging assignments and the international environment, we offer a highly competitive rewards package.

key requirements

§ We are seeking ambitious and highly motivated lawyers with first rate technical and commercial abilities driven to do high quality work.

§ In addition to your Belgian law degree (with first-class academic records), a post-graduate degree is an asset.

§ You are creative, curious and rigorous, have excellent communication skills and are able to take on a high degree of responsibility. You are also proactive and committed to providing an excellent service to clients.

§ You can work in English, Dutch and French.