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Senior Legal Analyst (m/f) - Brussels' office

Job Description

 

As a Senior (Legal) Analyst in our Damage Recovery business unit, you will deal with all legal aspects Deminor faces in the context of damage recovery cases in Europe.

Deminor is a European leader in recovering losses suffered by investors as a result of misrepresentation, corporate wrongdoing or market abuse. Deminor offers a fully comprehensive service to its clients, including fact finding, legal analysis, strategy definition, investor syndication, back-office, press communication, litigation coordination and negotiation of settlements. Our clients are both institutional and private retail investors who value Deminor's independence, analytical capabilities, integrity and determination. Deminor is active in five European countries through its local subsidiaries.

Deminor is currently involved in several high profile damage recovery assignments (Madoff, Lehman Brothers, Parmalat, ...) and has recently negotiated settlements in the Citibank Belgium and KBC CDO cases.

 

In team work with experienced senior associates and partners, you will be asked to provide legal advice on financial law and corporate matters, financial products, liabilities issues and litigation matters. You will offer legal support to settlement transaction negotiations, will help to organize collective actions and will represent clients at shareholder meetings, etc.

 

As we like to have our team fully involved in our assignments, you will also participate in identifying new assignments, negotiating and drafting mission letters, and in all other aspects of our missions, including preparing press releases or press conferences.

 

You will be involved in a variety of assignments and cases, working for institutional or private clients, concerning companies in several European countries, and will be part of a small and young team of professionals with both a legal and economic academic background.

 

Deminor has an entrepreneurial culture, encouraging our team members to work autonomously, to take up responsibilities and to grow our business as they gain experience within our firm. Since we face complex problems and competent and powerful adversary parties, our clients require from Deminor and its team the highest standards of quality, business ethics and commitment.

 

You will be based in Brussels, but travelling to our other offices whenever needed.

 

Profile:

You have an outstanding academic education and 2 to 4 years of ‘on-the-job' experience as a lawyer in a law firm or in a legal environment, preferably in the fields of corporate law and/or financial law, including legal research, advice, legal drafting, and assisting with negotiations of transactions.

You have had exposure to corporate litigation and/or litigation regarding investments in financial products.

You have strong analytical and drafting skills, and are able to make outstanding client presentations.

You are a team player with good communication skills, you are results oriented and you are able to work under time pressure.

You are fluent in Dutch, have a good working knowledge of English (including drafting skills) and French. Knowledge of a fourth language, especially German, would be considered as an asset.

You are used to working with software applications such as Word, Excel and Power-Point, and with legal databases.

 

Application:

 

Deminor offers a competitive salary in accordance with education, experience and skills. Based on a formal yearly evaluation process, Deminor also offers attractive annual gratification based on the team members' performance.

If you are interested in joining us, please send your application letter and curriculum to:

Mr Franky Van Gijsel
Manager Finance & Administration

Email: franky.vangijsel@deminor.com
Tel +32 2 674 71 10

About Deminor

Deminor is a European consultancy firm dedicated to advise and assistance to minority shareholders in listed and not listed companies. Deminor has offices in Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan and Geneva.

 

Deminor's corporate finance unit is involved in various assignments in listed and non-listed companies.

Our interventions in listed companies range from event-driven situations (take-over bids, mergers, restructuring, public-to-private transactions) to long term shareholder engagement strategies (corporate governance enhancement). An other important part of Deminor's intervention in listed companies are so-called collective actions, federating hundreds or thousands of investors, when investors have suffered damages resulting from fraud, misleading information or mismanagement.

 

In privately held companies, Deminor's corporate finance unit has a well-established practice of advising and assisting shareholders in all type of situations: take-overs, mergers, restructuring, succession issues in family businesses, management or governance changes, shareholding structure changes, etc.