Junior Legal Counsel

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Who are you?

You are a strong communicator and like to be in contact with people at different levels of the organization. Through your strong personal and legal skills you are experienced in building meaningful personal relationships, manage your tasks thoroughly and deliver quick results. You have excellent organizational skills, remain calm under pressure and you excel at managing multiple priorities effectively

In order to thrive in a challenging and demanding executive environment, you are hardworking, discrete and proactive. You continuously look for new ways to lend support or make improvements to benefit your company. You have a positive attitude and always go the extra mile for your colleagues. As a Junior Legal Counsel you are flexible and able to deal with unexpected tasks.

Who are we?

The delaware Group Legal Team gives support to the Group holding and to all delaware entities in corporate housekeeping, legal compliance, contract risk mitigation, managing the insurance portfolio, litigation handling and dealing with IP and trademark matters.

To continue to keep pace with the ever-growing workload, we will need substantial support by a Junior Legal Counsel who takes charge together with the Group Legal Manager of the corporate housekeeping and legal administration. This will allow us, as the Group Legal team to take a more proactive approach in supporting the business. Are you that essential extra pair of hands we’re looking for?

What will you be doing?

Let’s have a closer look at your to-do list:

• Your will take the lead in the corporate housekeeping at group level and safeguard the compliance in all entities

Serve as the primary point of contact for all corporate housekeeping related questions across the organization.

Develop and implement a clear and structured overview of events and subsequent actions for all legal entities, such as nomination of new partners and actualizing agreements with the partners.

Ensure completeness in content and timing of general assemblies and board meetings

Collaborate with local management teams on corporate housekeeping compliance at local entity level, including follow-up meetings to review status and progress.

Draft minutes of General Assemblies and Board Meetings.

• You will be handling legal administration

Updating trade register registrations, official publications, UBO register, shareholders registers, member lists with voting rights, identity documentation

Setting up digital voting for general assemblies and board meeting and management of proxies

Management of (digital) signatures, digital filing and archiving, Coordinating the legalizing and apostilles

• You will becentralizing legal compliance documentation present in the different countries on:

The application of legal contract templates and procedures

Implementation of the company policies

• You will be the person to go for questions relating to global insurance policies (contact with broker, requesting and distributing insurance certificates, updating insurance information…)

In Belgium delaware has offices in Ghent, Antwerp, Wavre, Courtrai, LiègeandLummen. As a Junior Legal Counsel, you will regularly be working at the Kortrijk offices, where the Group Support Services in Belgium are based. You may also be required to travel to our Ghent or Antwerp offices.

Is there a match?

Let’s see. If you…

• have a Master of Laws degree?
• combine strong organizational skills with a keeninterest in business relations? You are very organized in your work, accurate and being pro-active is one of your strong suits.
• are communicative, sociable and assertive?
• canexpress yourself well in English and Dutch? Great! It’s a bonus if you speak French too.
• are a quick learner, work independentlyin a dynamic environment, take ownershipof your work and show initiativein a flexible and international environment?
• are, in a nutshell, a legal team player with a healthy dose of common sense, enthusiasmand flexibility; are passionate about corporate law; will uphold high standards of accuracy in your legal work, whilst demonstrating the necessary pragmatism andfeel comfortable taking the initiative?

… then look no further, as delaware can offer you the workplace of your dreams and you’re the Junior Legal Counsel we need!

If you’re looking for a role with a rigid structure, this position may not be the best fit. We value team members who take a proactive and problem-solving approach.

Let’s meet up

Come have a chat with us and tell us all about your skills, talents and previous experience.

Are you keen to help us grow ourLegal supportteam? Make sure to connect with Léa Paquet if you have any questions whatsoever.