DO YOU WANT YOUR VOICE HEARD AND YOUR ACTIONS TO COUNT?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

FUNCTION POSITIONING

MUFG has an exciting and unique opportunity for a starting junior in-house counsel (bedrijfsjurist) to join our EMEA Legal Team based in Amsterdam. MUFG are looking for graduates or junior lawyers who already have experience in private practice or in-house. Graduates or students in their last year of university may also apply for an internship in MUFG’s EMEA Legal Department.
MUFG will support the successful candidate to either qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales or complete the Beroepsopleiding Bedrijfsjuristen if desirable. As part of your training, you will participate alongside your peers in a uniquely designed development programme for MUFG enabling you to develop your soft skills and institutional knowledge whilst building a valuable network across MUFG.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Integrity and Responsibility

• Balance Risk with Opportunity
• Customer Focus
• Demonstrate Global Perspective

Professionalism and Teamwork

• Drive For Results
• Collaborate and Build Partnerships
• Communicate Effectively and Professionally

Challenge Ourselves To Grow

• Influence and Inspire Others
• Lead Change & Seek Continuous Improvement
• Think Strategically
• Manage and Develop Talent

THE ROLE INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

The core activities of this function include: Providing legal services to and managing the legal risk for MUFG entities and branches across EMEA.

The EMEA Legal Department supports the achievement of these activities by:

• Assisting with monitoring, identifying and advising on legal, regulatory and market developments that may impact MUFG and its business.
• Providing legal advice, drafting, reviewing and negotiating documentation and providing all related transaction management and project management for a broad range of banking transactions which may include project finance, aviation finance, fund finance, asset finance, securitization, leveraged finance, structured products and derivates.
• Advising on the legal, regulatory and reputational issues arising in transactions and in the non-transactional aspects of the operation and business activities of MUFG.

IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE, YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING:

• LLM degree (or expected LLM degree) from a Dutch university.
• Excellent academic results
• Work experience as junior legal counsel, intern, paralegal, thesis student at a reputable law firm or another significant financial institution is an advantage
• Demonstratable interest in financial services industry
• in Dutch and English, familiarity with other European languages is an advantage, but not a pre-requisite.

We offer you a role in one of the largest banks of the world in a growing and international environment. You have various opportunities to develop yourself and we will support you with that by offering various training and development possibilities.

• We take into account your home situation and your ambitions and help you to balance work and private life.
• Monthly team events.
• To work in an ambitious, international environment with colleagues from different countries and cultures, who strive for the best