English speaking vacancies in Holland: Group counsel

Friday, 4 November 2011

Group counsel

Group Counsel
Avery Dennison - The Hague Area, Netherlands

Job Description

This position entails the provision of a full range of legal services to a number of operations and staff functions throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East.
The activities in Europe are growing due to business volume growth as a result of substantial investments in innovation and technology and the expansion into new geographical areas and development of new products for existing and new markets.

Reporting Relationship:
Reports to the Vice President & Assistant General Counsel Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The law department consists of two senior attorneys, who are generalists, and a number of semi-senior and junior attorneys. There is one Paralegal and one administrative assistant.

Responsibilities:
Provide a high level of quality legal service in a wide range of areas including: corporate, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property, employment, labor relations, commercial contracts, real estate, environmental, transaction services including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements such as joint development agreements, distribution agreements, purchase agreements, supply agreements, agency agreements and information technology agreements, and together with the I/P attorney: license agreements, secrecy agreements and consulting agreements.

Litigation services including advising the clients regarding potential and pending litigation; selecting and managing outside counsel and the course of the litigation, settlement agreements.
Managing product liability risk of the Corporation and subsidiaries through developing, implementing and maintaining standard sales and purchasing conditions, handling of claims, and coordination with the Risk Management Department and insurance carriers
Constant interaction with business leadership and exposure to business objectives, goals and strategies to gain knowledge and provide business oriented legal advice.
This position calls for regular travel mainly throughout EMEA but also to the U.S.A.

Desired Skills & Experience

Candidates must possess a law degree (Post Graduate Degree is appreciated).
Minimum of 4-7 years of Corporate/Commercial experience in a well known law firm or international manufacturing or consumer products company.
Strong communication skills.
Energetic and pro-active, business oriented approach.
Fluent in English both written and spoken

Company Description

Founded in 1935, Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive technology and innovative self-adhesive solutions for consumer products and label materials. Based in Pasadena, Calif., the Company had in 2007 recorded sales of $6.3 billion.
Avery Dennison develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of products for consumer and industrial markets, including Avery-brand office products, Fasson-brand self-adhesive materials, peel-and-stick postage stamps, reflective highway safety products, automated retail tag and labeling systems, and specialty tapes and chemicals.

Additional Information

Posted:
October 20, 2011
Type:
Full-time
Experience:
Mid-Senior level
Functions:
Strategy/Planning, Finance, Accounting/Auditing
Industries:
Paper & Forest Products, Food & Beverages, Chemicals
Job ID:
2091676

Found here: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2091676&trk=jobs_seeking_home

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Introduction of the ‘European Blue Card’

As from 19 June 2011 the Netherlands has a new purpose of stay: the European Blue Card. The European Blue Card is a separate purpose of stay in addition to the existing National Highly Skilled Migrant Programme. The EU Blue Card Council Directive is intended for highly skilled foreign nationals who do not have EU, EEA or Swiss nationality, and who wish to work in one of the member states of the EU. The Directive is also meant to make it easier to settle in another EU member state. A residence permit will always be required in that other member state, however. To obtain this residence permit the employee must comply with the conditions applicable in that member state.

The conditions for residence in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder are stricter than those for residence as a Highly Skilled Migrant. The employee must have a contract for highly qualified employment for at least one year, earning at least EUR 60,000 gross (in 2011). The employee must have completed a course of higher education lasting at least three years. The employee must prove this by having his diploma assessed by Nuffic. For a regulated profession, a competent authority will take decisions about the admission to that profession.

Advantages
One of the advantages of the EU Blue Card is that it is easier for an EU Blue Card holder and his family members to settle in another EU member state at a later date. After eighteen months foreign nationals who have an EU Blue Card are exempted from the provisional residence permit (MVV) requirement, if they want to work in another EU member State. In this second member state the employee must submit an application for a residence permit as a holder of an EU Blue Card. Each member state may implement the directive in slightly different ways. If someone holds a Blue Card in the Netherlands, this does not mean that the requirements are also met in other member states.

Another advantage is that after having stayed lawfully with the EU Blue Card holder in the Netherlands for two years, the family members may apply for a residence permit for ‘continued residence’. For other purposes of stay this is only possible after having stayed lawfully in the Netherlands for three years. The family members must have resided legally and continuously within the territory of an EU member state for at least five years, however. An employee who has stayed legally in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder for two years may apply for the status of ‘long-term resident as a non-EU member country national’. He must have resided legally and continuously within EU territory for five years and must comply with the other conditions for this purpose of stay.

Highly skilled migrants from outside of the EU

A highly skilled migrant is a migrant who comes to the Netherlands to be employed, and has a gross annual income of at least €47,565, or €34,881 if he/she is under thirty. This income requirement does not apply if the employee enters service for certain functions in an educational or research institution. For information on the specific functions to which this clause applies, you can inquire at the IND office for labour and highly skilled migrants. When a foreign national has been granted residence in the Netherlands as a highly skilled migrant, the employer of the highly skilled migrant is not required to be in possession of a work permit for that foreign national.

Professional soccer players, ministers of religion, teachers of religion and prostitutes are not eligible for a residency as highly skilled migrant.

Important!
The amounts stated above will be indexed every year as of 1 January.