Legal Counsel

Do you enjoy coming up with creative solutions to complex legal challenges? And do you want to work on a wide variety of projects, as an integral part of an talented diverse team working on an ambitious growth plan? Read further! For our client, an Amsterdam-based lifestyle hotels and hospitality group, we are looking for a Legal Counsel.

What they do:

Our client creates one-of-a-kind hotels, restaurants, stores and spas in Europe's most inspiring neighbourhoods.

The group is focused on income, generating quality properties with added-value potential in central locations of top-tier cities. SMB is dedicated to building a differentiated hotel collection and establishing its hotels and brands in urban destinations. We inject our unique concepts of design to each property, as well as F&B and additional services, which offer the guests the ultimate hospitality experience. Therefore, they need a legal counsel whom is passionate about hospitality and about your work as a legal counsel.

This is what you're going to do:

- Provide comprehensive and effective legal advice and support to the Food & Beverage groups, as well as strategic guidance on a wide range of legal issues, analysing business and legal risks;
- Review and draft (commercial) contracts and financial agreements;
- Monitor deadlines, manage litigation, negotiations and disputes, as well as overseeing corporate compliance;
- Providing legal support for the group’s expansion throughout Europe;
- Compliance with IT and privacy law, marketing law, and general corporate matters;
- Detects and follows trends in legislations and translates these trends into possible or necessary changes into contract standards and work methods.


This is why your new job is challenging:

You will provide support to all stakeholders of our various departments by providing legal advice (national and international) concerning corporate matters as well as commercial operations. Furthermore, you will be responsible for litigation, by initiating, preventing and/or assisting legal proceedings in order to protect the company’s interests. In addition, you are partly responsible for development, implementation and control of policies and matters of compliance. You will draft/ review financial documents/agreements/contracts and liaise with external parties as required. You will be responsible for permits/statutory regulations, as well as lease, management, and franchise agreements. You are able to find pragmatic solutions to complex legal and business challenges from both commercial and business-oriented points of view. The Legal Counsel will operate within an international and challenging commercial environment with a home base in Amsterdam city center.


They are looking for:

- Ideally you have a background in Dutch law;
- Minimum of 3 years work experience;
- You are familiair with commercial (corporate) law;
- You have experience with claims, alternative dispute resolution and litigation;
- You have the ability to advise on commercial contracts and commercial leases;
- You have the ability to balance commercial interests whilst protecting company’s interests in a fast-paced environment;
- Excellent legal research skills and the ability to multitask;
- You can work on different projects in a timely manner;
- It is necessary to communicate (in English & Dutch) and connect and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.