Friday, 27 January 2012

Senior Associate - Commercial & Legal Counsel

ABN AMRO Bank N.V. - Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Job Description

Your work:

You will be the first point of contact for new and existing clients and intermediaries, such as law firms (m&a lawyers), civil law notaries, corporate bankers and accountants, all over Europe. You are a professional sparring partner for our intermediaries and clients. You identify opportunities for commercial initiatives and convert these into tailor made escrow agreements, prepare commercial proposals and you negotiate conditions precedent for escrow and settlement agreements.

Desired Skills & Experience

Your background

• Legal education on masters level;

• At least 3 to 5 years of relevant working experience in a financial institution or in a law firm/notary office;

• Outstanding communicative skills and ability to convince;

• Outspoken commercial feeling;

• Good drafting skills and pro-active, quick-witted and analytical thinker;

• Eager to develop solutions to meet customer requirements and results driven

• You are prepared to travel, meet and cement relationships with our intermediaries and clients;

• Fluent in English and Dutch and preferably in another language.

Company Description

ABN AMRO Escrow & Settlement is a leading niche player in Europe for securing financial obligations arising from acquisitions, cross border trading transactions and international (construction-) projects. This renowned organization has the experience and know how to arrange escrows & settlements at short notice. ABN AMRO Escrow & Settlement offers escrow solutions directly to end customers and through professional intermediaries worldwide such as banks, law firms, accountants and other consultants. This department currently consists of 15 persons.

Our offer

If you come to work at ABN AMRO Escrow & Settlement, you will be joining an international business, which is enterprising, daring and ambitious. Definetly not 925. You work with top lawyers and bankers requiring triple A service and you are dedicated to deliver. We encourage an active diversity policy. You will be given every opportunity to work on your personal development and further your career. Naturally, we offer excellent terms of employment.

More information

For more information contact Femke Algera, Senior Recruiter via 06 531 47 327 . We look forward to getting to know you. Are you interested? Please apply online!

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2433586&trk=EML_nus_job&ut=2xmR_EXsNvFl41

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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.