Senior Corporate M&A Lawyer

Do you want to lead complex transactions and contribute to the further development of our M&A and Private Equity practice? For Lennart Crain and Wouter Kros's Corporate M&A team in Amsterdam, we are looking for a senior lawyer.

You have extensive experience in leading transactions, want responsibility towards clients, and help with the development of the team. At AKD, you will be given the space to fulfill that role.

• You take responsibility for transactions. You are a substantive interlocutor for clients and a point of contact for opposing counsel and other advisors.

• You lead transactions from the initial structuring and due diligence to negotiations, signing, and closing. You draft transaction documentation and negotiate it, with a sharp eye for the client's commercial interests. You also manage the transaction process and coordinate cooperation with specialists, foreign counsel, and other advisors.

• You maintain direct contact with clients. Within the team, you share your knowledge and guide junior colleagues in their development. You take the initiative to further expand the practice in a way that suits your experience and ambitions. You investigate how AI and other technologies can improve transaction work and implement practical applications.

• You determine the approach and seek consultation when necessary. Even under time pressure, you maintain an overview and safeguard the quality of the work.

Our practice focuses on national and international transactions, including private equity deals, strategic acquisitions, public M&A, controlled auctions, and growth capital investments. We also advise on other matters regarding listed companies; experience with this is not a requirement. In doing so, we often work closely with other advisors and lawyers from renowned foreign firms.

AKD combines the expertise and international network of a full-service Benelux firm with an open, accessible way of collaborating. We delve into what our clients want to achieve and ask follow-up questions, even when the chosen approach seems obvious. You form your own judgment and clearly state what is and is not possible. Where another approach works better, you make it discussable.

AKD is a full-service firm with over 600 lawyers, tax specialists, notaries, and support staff in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. For our clients, we are the gateway in, out of, and to the Benelux. AKD's years of high rankings in the M&A League Tables and recognition by various guides demonstrate the strong position of our M&A team in the market. Due to the strong growth of the (international) M&A practice within our firm, we have room for a professional who can contribute to the further expansion of the practice.

Responsibility and influence

You will be given the space, depending on your experience, to lead transactions and advise clients with a high degree of independence. Your judgment counts. We expect you to ask follow-up questions, challenge assumptions, and propose a different approach if that works better.

Direct collaboration with experienced partners

You work closely with the team's partners, Wouter Kros and Lennart Crain, who combine a pragmatic approach with personal involvement (what our firm stands for). You bring your own experience and find colleagues with whom you can consult on substantive matters.

Further growth as a senior

Through our training academy AKDMY, you can further deepen your legal expertise and professional skills. Together, we will discuss your ambitions and how you can further develop your own profile within the practice.

Professional and personal

At AKD, we work with short lines of communication and we speak our minds. We take responsibility for our work and honor our agreements. We want to deliver excellent work for our clients and help each other make that happen.