Legal Expert

The team

As a Legal Expert, you are part of ING Legal Domestic Bank Netherlands (Legal DBNL), a legal department that advises on many different product areas, such as: payments, mortgages, consumer loans, business lending, private banking, restructuring and investments. Other areas of focus within the department include anti-money laundering, fraud, privacy, ESG and digitalization. The Tribe Legal DBNL is part of a network of more than 500 ING lawyers working across the globe which allows us to share expertise, best practices, relevant developments in case law and more.

Within Legal DBNL you will be part of the Chapter Business and Private Banking, one of the four Chapters within Legal DBNL. This Chapter has business banking (for example sales, lending and real estate financing), restructuring, private banking and investments as its key focus areas. We are looking for a Legal Expert with focus on investments and private banking. We work together closely, challenge colleagues and share knowledge with each other by informal and formal means. In this way we can benefit as much as possible from shared knowledge and experience, lessons learned and best practices.

Legal DBNL is an inspiring working environment in the middle of the continuously changing world of ING. You act as a 'spider in the web’ when it comes to working with the business departments that rapidly change our customer journeys and make them more digital, sustainable and customer friendly. We want to ensure that our customers are best served; ING can rightfully call itself the most digital bank in the Netherlands and we serve our strategy Horizon ’28: “ Driving sustainable growth”.

Roles and responsibilities

• You will advise and support our internal clients (Tribes) within ING Domestic Bank Netherlands (ING DBNL) with mainly focus on private banking and investments.
• You will provide legal advice about various aspects of financial regulatory law including ESG relating matters, contract law and securities law, in particular the aspects of the conduct of business rules and the duty of care in relation with the provision of investment services by ING DBNL.
• You will participate in the (parp-)process of (new) products and new initiatives, e.g. private markets proposition, ING investment strategies, and the ING Horizon ’28 strategy.
• Your work may include tasks such as monitoring relevant legal developments, implementing new laws and regulations both on group level and local into ING policies and answering day-to-day legal questions.
• Creating and maintaining standard documentation, e.g. investment service documentation and terms and conditions.
• You will handle client complaints and advise on or support legal proceedings in court and at Kifid (Dutch Institute for Financial Disputes).
• You will also work together with the colleagues within the ING DBNL Risk organization to identify, assess, and manage the non-financial risks for ING.

How to succeed

• You have a Dutch University degree in Law.
• Proficient in Dutch and English (both in writing and verbally).
• You have a minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience within a financial institution, a supervisor and/or a law firm.
• Job scale dependent on relevant work experience
• You have affinity with financial law and securities law (such as Wft/ MiFID/MiFIR, PRIIPS, UCITS, AIFMD.).
• You are proactive, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, pragmatic, flexible, analytical, and a real team player.