Junior Corporate Associate

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.
Qualifications
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.