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Legal Advisor (Contracts Vetting)
MeDirect Bank Malta is currently looking to recruit a Legal Advisor to join their team on a full-time basis.
Overview:
The Legal Advisor plays a crucial role within the team, ensuring full compliance with property law and lending regulations. This position involves reviewing property titles, representing the Bank in transactions, and collaborating with notaries and other external stakeholders. The ideal candidate will offer strategic counsel to internal departments, safeguarding the Bank’s interests while contributing to the efficient management of its operations. This role is integral to maintaining the Bank’s legal integrity and supporting its long-term success.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Conducting in-house vetting of mortgage and lending facility files to ensure that property titles and security arrangements are in order
- Collaborating with notaries to track the status of documents and handle any pending requirements
- Representing the Bank in legal matters such as loan agreements, waivers, postponements, cancellations, and subrogations, both on-site and off-site
- Handling post-deed procedures to ensure compliance and completion
- Offering legal advice to internal departments on property-related matters
- Assisting with other contracts and legal matters as needed by the Legal Department.
Required knowledge, skills and experience:
- A valid warrant as a Notary or Lawyer
- Previous experience in contracts vetting, preferably within the financial or banking sector, or a reputable legal firm/notarial office
- An in-depth understanding of notarial legislation and civil law
- Strong analytical skills, an ability to work independently, and exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- The capability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
MeDirect (formerly known as Mediterranean Bank) is a pan-European retail digital challenger bank, with two main lines of business: WealthTech and specialised mortgage lending.
As a WealthTech, our aspiration is to democratise investing and disrupt the retail digital investment space by deploying a unique Wealth SuperApp offering one of the broadest range of online investment solutions to individual clients.
We provide clients with autonomy, choice and guidance in the way they want to manage their money. Our SuperApp is also a one-stop-shop, catering to clients’ investment and everyday banking needs. All this with simplicity and an easy user experience.
As a specialised mortgage lending platform, we carefully select the segments we operate in, with the goal of setting new standards of service for our customers and address, when relevant, underserved segments of the mortgage market in jurisdictions we operate in.
With ca. 400 employees at Group level in aggregate, we are growing a world-class Tech platform in Malta to support our pan-European operations, currently in Belgium, the Netherlands and Malta. We compete for talent on an international level, with 25 different nationalities currently represented in the Group. Our work environment is fast paced and constantly changing while fostering a sense of teamwork and pride in participating in MeDirect’s exciting transformation journey.
Headquartered in Malta, MeDirect has a subsidiary bank in Belgium, MeDirect Bank NV/SA. MeDirect is Malta’s third largest banking group in terms of total assets. It is a systemic bank in Malta, and its consolidated group is supervised under the Single Supervisory Mechanism by a Joint Supervisory Team including the European Central Bank, the Malta Financial Services Authority and the National Bank of Belgium.
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