Legal Counsel ACT – Amsterdam

Introductie

Work on interesting legal issues together with a team of experienced legal professionals at a fast-paced trading company.

Organisatie

As the leading environmental solutions partner for organizations globally, ACT helps its B2B partners meet increasing environmental action and disclosure expectations from regulators, customers, investors, suppliers, and other stakeholders with transparency and confidence. The company was founded in 2009 as a trading house and market maker in environmental products such as CO2 emission rights and green certificates. The growth that ACT has experienced has been explosive which made them a unicorn company and one of the most successful traders in the market. The company trades in dozens of products, in a large number of markets in Europe and the USA. The company has teams located in offices in Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, London and Tokyo and deliver tailor-made solutions backed by extensive market knowledge. The current number of employees is 550 globally of which 350 employees are working at the headquarters in the sustainable Atrium building, in the heart of “the Zuidas” in Amsterdam. ACT has created a strong commercial community and employs a significant amount of young people who enjoy the positive buzz on the work floor. Frequent team activities, such as yearly team boosting outings, also contribute to this atmosphere.

Functie

Your ultimate goal will be to work on commercial agreements, (structuring) projects together with the business and your legal colleagues. You will also add value to existing activities of the Legal department by providing tailored advice and guidance to all stakeholders including the business. Important stakeholders of the legal counsel are for example the front office (which consists mostly of sales traders and back office), IT, the compliance and risk department and HR. Along with the fact that the trading market with respect to sustainability certificates is growing there is a trend that ACT enters increasingly into larger long-term (>10 years) purchase and sale agreements with their clients. Your contribution will be significant because of the fact that you will assist the business with the negotiation of these contracts.

The main responsibilities are:

● providing advice on complex projects working closely with the legal team on these topics;

● being involved in drafting, negotiating, standardization and optimization of sale and purchase agreements, service and project agreements and NDA’s.

Functie-eisen

● 4-6 years of experience in an international law firm or in-house;

● international transaction (M&A, finance, real estate, etc.) or project experience;

● excellent in negotiating, drafting and executing (commercial) purchase and sales contracts and excellent knowledge and use of English; 

● a self-confident and self-starting mentality, skilled stakeholder manager and entrepreneurial spirit;

● positive mindset, loves a fast-paced environment and ability to act swiftly on the spot.

Aanbod

● Working on interesting legal issues together with a team of experienced legal professionals in a dynamic work hard – play hard environment where you can make a direct impact;

● the opportunity to broaden your legal skills and to do what you want to become good at;

● in-house training: learning and development with regard to e.g. leadership and product development training with regard to the core business and new products of ACT; 

● good working conditions and a dazzling Vrijmibo and legendary team outings;

● a laptop and a telephone.

Inlichtingen

Interested? Contact Robert Tol by phone: + 31 6 25 25 89 21 / email: rtol@hddn.nl.