Legal Counsel Lead Belgium

Join a fast-growing company with a purpose! At Fastned you will actively contribute to accelerating the transition to electric mobility. Together with over 360 colleagues (+40 nationalities) across 9+ countries, we have big plans: we are building a Europe-wide network of 1,000 beautiful fast charging stations where electric drivers can charge their cars with energy from the sun and wind. We have recently been voted the best charging network in the UK, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, a testimony to our drive to offer the best charging experience to EV drivers!

Your role

As legal counsel Belgium, you will be the legal lead and therefore responsible for and manage Fastned's legal affairs in Belgium and part of the Fastned Belgium management team. This is a very broad legal function with the main focus on drafting and advising on real estate & property law topics. Other topics that come up deal with competition law, construction law, employment law, compliance and more corporate and finance related matters.

We would love working with a nice, self-motivated, proactive, entrepreneurial and mission-driven person. Working as lead legal counsel in Belgium is a great opportunity to work at a rapidly growing, highly diversified and dynamic team while being able to make a significant impact.

You will be part of a growing team of 10 lawyers, who work in Amsterdam, London, Cologne and Paris. As legal counsel you will report to the Director Legal and Compliance and work well with all your colleagues within Fastned.

Your responsibilities:

• Providing full legal support and advice to the local team in Belgium. In this role you are the trusted advisor to the management team, you are good at weighing legal risks versus commercial chances and you like problem solving.

• Being responsible for challenging, reviewing and drafting lease and property law contracts under Belgium law.

• Providing full legal support and advice on all sorts of other commercial contracts.

• Advising business and being the trusted advisor on key developments, strategy and other key decisions. You will be part of negotiations and external network development sessions.

• Helping out with tenders - negotiating tender documentation and other public contracts.

• Providing legal advice about various regulatory matters such as competition regulations and other more consumer-related, subsidies and corporate topics.

• Monitor new legislations and regulations and make sure that Fastned is compliant.

• Working on optimisation of all kinds of processes in which legal is involved.