Legal Counsel M&a

Our organisation

**Ageas**is a BEL-20 listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning of 200 years, offering Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance, and is also engaged in reinsurance activities.
- As an international insurance company, Ageas concentrates its activities in Europe and Asia through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long-term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors. Ageas ranks among the market leaders in the countries in which it operates. It represents a staff force of about 50,000 people and reported annual inflows of over EUR 18 billion in 2024.
- Ageas aims to be a Great place to Grow for all its people, while always staying true to its four values: care, share, deliver and dare. It fosters an inclusive culture, that values diversity and encourages everyone to get the best out of their talents.
- Ageas has been re-certified as **Top Employer** in **2024** for the fourth year in a row.
- We are looking for a dynamic and pragmatic team-player to join the M&A legal team which is part of the Group Legal team and the wider General Counsel office of Ageas Group. On a day-to-day basis, the M&A legal team works with the Ageas Group’s business M&A team and external advisors (investment banks, law firms, etc.).

Your function
- You work on a wide variety of M&A transactions and other key transactions for the Group (including capital markets related projects) as part of a fast-paced international environment. Your responsibilities include among others:

- Being the SPOC on a day-to-day basis for legal management on a wide variety of international M&A transactions (acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, divestitures, spin-offs, etc.), as well as the ongoing support of our joint venture relationships across the Group.
- This includes the responsibility for legal work across all stages of the M&A process:

- initial structuring analysis;
- coordination of due diligence processes;
- input into governance papers and (non-)binding offer documents;
- coordinate with and steer our external advisors;
- negotiation of transaction documents;
- coordination of filings with applicable regulatory authorities as well as all signing and closing formalities,
- in close cooperation with other functions of the Group as well as the Group’s regions and operating companies.
- Work together with the Group Capital Markets and Treasury department on financial/treasury-related matters, e.g. capital increases, dividend distributions, issuance of various debt instruments, intra-group loan arrangements.
- Regular briefings to members of the Executive Committee on significant legal topics arising from various M&A transactions across the Group, including the preparation of succinct, high quality, and actionable legal advice to top-level management.
- Management of relevant external legal support, including:

- assisting with the identification and selection of external counsel and ensuring the most appropriate support is provided in the relevant jurisdictions;
- interacting daily with, and being the primary provider of instructions to, external law firms. This involves prioritizing Ageas’ needs by ensuring we receive legal advice and support in a timely, cost-efficient and targeted manner.
- Assessment of legal and compliance risks, irregularities, and/or gaps on M&A files, and guidance to internal Group functions and senior management in achieving viable solutions to such relevant legal issues.

**Profile**:

- You have obtained a Master of Laws degree with excellent academic results.
- You have a minimum of 6 years of transactional experience in a corporate M&A team in a reputable and internationally oriented law firm or equivalent in-house counsel experience. Capital markets experience is a plus.
- You are able to coordinate and combine a broad range of M&A and capital markets files where you steer our external advisors and keep a good oversight to protect Ageas’ interests.
- On top of outstanding transactional skills and legal expertise, you are interested in and enthusiastic to learn about insurance M&A, including in the exciting and challenging environment of emerging markets in Asia.
- You are interested in and capable of working within different cultural environments.
- You have strong analytical legal skills, you are capable of identifying legal issues relevant to the matter at hand and translating your legal analysis of such issues into clear and crisp business relevant advice.
- You are a team player who enjoys sharing knowledge and working together with peers and outside parties, while being able to function autonomously and to take on responsibilities.
- You are dynamic and creative, proactive, solution driven and pragmatic.
- You are a good communicator and coordinator.
- You have full professional proficiency in English.

We offer
- A fast-paced and challenging corporate environment where you can develop to your fu