Banking and Finance Lawyer (m/w/d) (German speaker preferred) Europäische Investitionsbank

This position is based at our Luxembourg headquarters and requires regular office presence. The EIB offers you the opportunity to live and work in a truly international and multi-cultural environment. We also offer relocation support.

The EIB, the European Union's bank, is seeking to recruit for its Legal Directorate (JU) - EU Operations Department - (OPS-EU) – Northern Europe Division (NE) - Austria and Germany Unit (AT-DE) at its headquarters in Luxembourg a Banking and Finance Lawyer (German speaker preferred)*.

This is a full-time position at grade 5 for which the EIB offers a permanent contract.

*Internal benchmark Officer Legal Services

Panel interviews are foreseen for February 2026.

Purpose

The Northern Europe Division (NE) deals with the legal documentation and legal issues for projects in Northern Europe, i.e. in Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and the EFTA countries. The Lawyer will assist the Head of Division and Head of Department, together with other legal advisers, in providing legal support to the operational directorates, carrying out work related to all tasks within the remit of the division.

This position offers you the opportunity to contribute to EIB’s business in the Division’s countries of operations and to support primarily transactions in Austria and Germany. You would gain experience with different types of EIB lending products, enhance skills in negotiating with internal and external clients and celebrate your success as part of a highly motivated and dynamic team that takes pride in what it does.

Operating network

You will act under the general authority of the Head of Division and the Head of Unit, in cooperation with the other colleagues of the Division and in accordance with the established priorities.

The post may involve a certain amount of travel for negotiations and signatures of legal documentation and contracts.

Accountabilities

As a Banking and Finance Lawyer you will carry out work related to the Division's responsibilities and work independently on complex lending and financing operations. You will:

• Draft and negotiate legal documentation for lending and financing operations for:
  • projects in the afore-mentioned countries, notably bilateral loans with banking counterparts, public entities and major corporates
  • project finance operations, with the assistance from external legal counsels
  • structured finance operations, including securitisations
  • other forms of financing, including risk-sharing structures, on a funded and unfunded basis.
  This includes advising on structuring, drafting of documents, legal advisory support, conclusion of contracts, completion of all related legal formalities, and legal monitoring (including loan restructuring and other post-signature events).
• Manage contacts and negotiations
• Prepare the terms of reference for external counsel and other consultants, liaise and supervise their work, whenever necessary
• Complete the administrative formalities vis-à-vis clients which have a legal nature or have legal implications
• Undertake research and conduct legal studies on issues of law arising in connection with EIB's operations and in the context of developing new financial instruments/templates
• Develop and maintain relationships within EIB, its clients and external legal advisers, and represent EIB externally

Qualifications

• University degree in law, minimum an equivalent to a Bachelor and preferably at Master level, and preferably qualified in German or Austrian law.
• Minimum 5 years and preferably not more than 15 years of professional experience relevant for the job, in the field of bank lending and/or project finance and/or capital markets, preferably acquired with a law firm of international repute or the in-house legal department of a financial institution.
• Knowledge of civil and commercial law of a jurisdiction relevant to the work of the Division would be an asset.
• Significant experience in drafting and negotiating finance documents in English; experience in drafting and negotiating finance documents in German would be an advantage.
• Experience in structured finance and/or project finance/PPP transactions would be an advantage.
• Very good knowledge of standard computer tools.
• Excellent knowledge of English and/or French(***) with a good command of the other. Capacity to draft and negotiate in German would be a distinct advantage.

(***) Unless stated explicitly as a required qualification, a good command of French is not a pre-requisite for hire. As both English and French are however official working languages of the EIB, proficiency in both languages is a pre-requisite for your future career development. Any language clause in your contract must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible for a promotion (either via the annual appraisal cycle or via an internal selection process). Proficiency is understood to mean the attainment of level 5 of the Inter Institutional language courses, corresponding to B1.2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). The Bank offers appropriate training support.

We hire and value talent with unique characteristics, creating a work environment where they can be themselves. We believe that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion makes us a performing and innovative organisation. We encourage all suitably qualified and eligible candidates to apply regardless of their gender identity/expression, age, racial, ethnic and cultural background, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation, disability or neurodiversity.

We strongly invite applicants with a disability, neurodivergent profile or chronic condition to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact the EIB Recruitment team who will ensure that your request is handled.

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Deadline for applications: 14th January 2026