Senior Corporate Legal Counsel, Adyen
Capital Markets
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You are an attorney with at least 8+ years of corporate legal experience, either as a corporate attorney or in-house corporate counsel at a publicly listed company in an international setting
- You have strong knowledge of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and related Dutch and European regulations
- You have familiarity with equity compensation structures
- You have experience interfacing with the AFM, supervisory boards, and management boards
- You have excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
- You have the ability to structure and prioritize in a high volume, fast-paced, complex environment
- You can work independently as well as collaboratively, gathering appropriate input and making clear, well-reasoned decisions
- You are available to work from our Amsterdam office and travel to other offices periodically
- You are fluent in English and Dutch, both written and spoken
What the job involves
- As Senior Corporate Legal Counsel, Capital Markets at Adyen you will be responsible for the legal work related to our public listing in the Netherlands
- This is a strategic role that is important to sound corporate governance practices and continued sustainable growth
- The role requires someone effective at cross collaboration, who excels at decision making in a fast-moving complex environment
- Extensive knowledge of and comfort with the Market Abuse Regulation is imperative to success
- The counsel will drive discussions and decisioning on disclosure matters as well as advise on public filings and equity matters
- The role forms part of Adyen’s larger corporate practice which covers corporate governance, litigation and disputes, and third party agreements
- The corporate legal team is currently centered in Amsterdam and the United States but Adyen is a global company with offices, entities, and boards all over the world
- Review and advise on public filings as well as other disclosure documentation
- Manage insider trading and conflict of interest inquiries, procedures, and policies
- Ensure compliance with the Market Abuse Regulation
- Support the disclosure committee, driving strategic disclosure reviews and determinations
- Partner with Investor Relations and Communications on disclosure matters
- Advise on equity structures and incentive plans in partnership with HR and Rewards teams
- Consult with regulators and financial authorities such as the AFM
- Keep abreast of developments in relevant Dutch and European corporate legal matters
- Providing legal support and internal trainings on other corporate law matters as required
Application process
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4-5 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$58.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327.7m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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