Environmental Lawyer (NL) - Boutique Law firm

In a nutshell

• Niche law firm specialising in environmental law, with a secondary focus on energy law, EHS, regulatory
• Provide legal advice to clients across a variety of industries
• Lawyer with experience in environmental law
• Challenging cases in a pleasant working environment

Your function

As their next environmental lawyer, you will help clients to acquire and defend permits, represent operators in constitutional, administrative, civil and repressive litigation, assist in contractual issues, team up on mergers and acquisitions and advocate legislative and regulatory evolution.

You are the trusted legal partner of a diverse clientele, consisting of international corporations, local SMEs, start-ups and established operators. The clients are active in a variety of industries: environmental and energy utilities, distributors as well as operators in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, real estate and logistic sectors, among others.

You will represent individual corporations as well as industry associations, commercial companies and operators in the social economy sector.

Developing long-term relationships with the clients is an essential part of your responsibilities.

Your profile

• You have at least 4 years of professional experience as an environmental lawyer
• You have a sense for entrepreneurship
• You are Dutch-speaker and are fluent in English, with at least a good passive knowledge of French
• You are mature and can work autonomously
• You are a professional in your work, yet have a certain flair which enables you to build rapport with your clients and colleagues

What's in it for you

My client offers challenging work in a pleasant environment, while working together with a close-knit team. The firm’s values are to enable its associates to sustainably develop their professional careers with the possibility to grow as a Partner.

About my client

My client offers tailored legal support to a wide range of industries operating in Belgium, with a strong focus on complex regulatory and technical matters. Its expertise notably covers energy law, EHS (environmental, health and safety) issues, product regulation, food law, as well as planning and zoning.

The firm assists clients in securing, maintaining, and consolidating their “license to operate”, addressing site-, service-, and product-related regulatory challenges.

Building on a solid professional reputation and extensive experience, my client effectively represents and defends its clients’ interests before all relevant stakeholders, including local, regional and European authorities and courts, political decision-makers, the media, and the wider public.