Financial Lawyer

Crédit Agricole Group; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Crédit Agricole Group seeks a Financial Lawyer to provide legal and administrative support for investment funds, including structuring and regulatory interactions. You will assist with corporate governance, meeting documents, and the management of contracts and documentation.

The role also covers drafting and updating framework contracts for services to clients, negotiating client agreements, and offering regulatory oversight across asset servicing and asset management domains.

Responsabilités

• Legal and administrative support for investment funds, including structuring.
• Assist investment funds in corporate life (meetings, minutes, filings).
• Provide ongoing legal oversight on investment fund contracts and documentation.
• Ensure third-party relationships and regulator proceedings.

Description du poste

As a Financial Lawyer, you will:
1. Corporate Services and Fund Structuring

• Legal and administrative support for investment funds
• Ensure the legal structuring of investment funds, working with the regulatory authorities and theclient: creations, transformations, mergers (national and cross-border), liquidations
• Assist investment funds in the organization of their corporate life (assembling meeting documents,
  holding boards of directors and general meetings, writing minutes, performing legal formalities, etc.)
• Provide the investment funds with legal and administrative support, update contracts and
  documentation.
• Ensure third-party relationships (business auditor, custodian, portfolio manager, etc.)
• Open and handle proceedings with regulators
• Update contracts and documentation for investment funds.

2. Client contracts:

• Writing and updating framework contracts for services rendered to CACEIS clients (particularly as regards incorporation of new regulations)
• Negotiating and monitoring negotiations of client contracts relating to the main banking andfinancial services provided by CACEIS
• Ensure administrative monitoring of contracts, filing and archiving legal operations.

3. Regulatory oversight and legal advice

• Provide continuous regulatory oversight over the legal areas of investment funds.
• Provide support and legal advice for the various services.
• Contribute to the implementation of regulatory projects in the field of asset servicing and the assetmanagement (mainly UCITS, AIFMD, MiFID, RIS, ESG, outsourcing, etc.)
• Participate to CACEIS or Crédit Agricole legal committees and represent the company at BeAMA