🇱🇺 Banking and Finance Lawyer Job in Luxembourg ⚖️ Polish Market Lending Operations at the European Investment Bank 🏛️

The EIB, the European Union's bank, is seeking to recruit for its Legal Directorate, EU Operations Department, Central Europe Division, at its headquarters in Luxembourg, a Banking and Finance Lawyer with a Polish market focus.

⚖️ Purpose

Join the team of legal experts at the EIB's Central Europe Division. As a legal counsel, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and negotiating lending operations of the EIB across eight jurisdictions. You will collaborate with a team of 12 highly skilled lawyers and work closely with the EIB's clients, ranging from member states, local municipalities and banks to corporates of all sizes and from all eligible sectors. You will offer strategic guidance on all types of lending operations, including secured and non-secured transactions, structured finance and asset finance, guiding projects, mitigating risks and ensuring compliance. The Central Europe Division is at the heart of lending operations and financial products in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia.

🤝 Operating Network

As a Lawyer, you will report directly to the Head of the Central Europe Division and cooperate with other lawyers in the Division and the Legal Directorate, as well as colleagues in other Directorates of the EIB.

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⚖️ Accountabilities

You will provide legal advice on lending operations in relation to, in particular, EIB projects in Poland, but opportunities may also arise to advise on projects in other jurisdictions covered by the team. Your tasks may involve a limited amount of travel for negotiations and signatures of legal documentation. You will:

✍️ Draft and independently negotiate legal documentation in English, including loan agreements, guarantees and other related finance documents, for lending operations such as bilateral loans with banking sector counterparts, corporates and public sector entities

🏗️ Provide legal advice to the EIB, with assistance from external legal counsels chosen for that purpose, in relation to structured finance transactions such as asset-backed and synthetic securitizations, project finance and public-private partnerships

🔄 Offer legal advice throughout the entire lending process, from the initial structuring of transactions to participation in negotiations and any matters occurring post financial close, including workouts and restructurings

🤝 Liaise with external counsels and supervise their work whenever necessary

📚 Undertake research and conduct legal studies on matters of law arising in connection with the Bank's operations and in the context of developing new products

🌐 Build and maintain relationships within the EIB, with its clients and external legal advisers, and represent the EIB externally

✅ Qualifications

🎓 University degree in law, at least equivalent to a bachelor's degree

⚖️ Professional legal qualification in any jurisdiction where the team operates, preferably in Polish law, however lawyers qualified in Luxembourg or English law are also encouraged to apply

🏛️ Admission to a bar association

💼 At least 5 years of relevant experience, preferably gained from a law firm advising on lending transactions

📄 Significant experience in drafting and negotiating finance documents of LMA type

🏦 Experience in structured finance, project finance or public-private partnership transactions would be a distinct advantage

🗣️ Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to independently conduct high-profile negotiations and draft finance documents, and good command of French, while the ability to draft and negotiate in Polish would be a distinct advantage

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