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Legal Counsel (Contracts Vetting)
We are seeking a motivated Legal Counsel to join our Legal team, focusing on contracts vetting and compliance with property law and lending regulations. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a junior professional to gain valuable experience by collaborating with internal departments, notaries, and other external stakeholders. As part of our team, you will help safeguard the Bank’s interests and ensure operational efficiency while contributing to the success of our legal operations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Reviewing mortgage and lending facility files to ensure property titles and security arrangements meet compliance standards.
- Working closely with notaries to track document status and resolve any outstanding requirements.
- Representing the Bank in various legal matters, including loan agreements, waivers, postponements, cancellations, and subrogations, both on-site and off-site.
- Managing post-deed procedures to ensure compliance and proper follow-through.
- Providing legal advice and guidance to internal departments on property-related matters.
- Assisting the Legal Department with contracts and other legal tasks as required.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- A valid warrant as a Notary or Lawyer, or a Law graduate close to obtaining warrant.
- Experience in contracts vetting, ideally within the financial or banking sector or a reputable legal firm/notarial office.
- A solid understanding of notarial legislation and civil law.
- Strong analytical abilities, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the capacity to work independently.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work 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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