Banking and Finance Lawyer

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), Operational Policy, Mandates and Non-EU Operations Department (OPS-POL), Outside Europe A Division (OEU-A), Latin America and Caribbean Unit (LAC) at its headquarters in Luxembourg, a Banking and Finance Lawyer – Spanish speaker*.

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 anticipated for February 2026

The Outside Europe A (OEU-A) Division deals with the legal documentation and legal issues for projects in the following countries: Neighbourhood Countries (South), Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia, Latin America.

The purpose of this position is to provide legal advice and support, relating to tasks within the Division's remit, focusing on lending (sovereign/bank/corporate), guarantee transactions (including guarantees and risk sharing facilities for banks and corporates), grants and post-signature work, in relation to the EIB projects.

In this role your work will involve activities of various complexity and recurring (e.g. advise on standard loan agreements) as well as non-standard nature (e.g. research in connection with new products; advise on more complex structured finance, proposing and discussing with the hierarchy highly sophisticated and complex legal matters).

The Division consists of 15 people (lawyers and assistants). The team is very friendly and has a culture of cooperation and knowledge sharing.

As a Banking and Finance Lawyer, you will report to the Head of OEU-A Division and cooperate with the other colleagues of the team and the Legal Directorate. You will also collaborate with colleagues from other Directorates within the EIB (including e.g. front office, risk management, the project team and the finance team) and maintain relationships with various external counterparts (e.g. external legal counsels, borrowers, guarantors).

• Manage contacts and negotiations concerning the EIB operations handled by the Division, working with documents subject to numerous jurisdictions and with counterparts in various countries and with internal counterparts in several different areas of the Bank (mainly front office)
• Draft documents, provide advisory legal support, finalise contracts, complete all related legal formalities and legal monitoring (including post-signature events)
• Understand and implement in contractual documentation the specificities arising from the various mandates underpinning the Division's activities
• Contribute to the development and implementation of grant documentation and other blending related activities
• Contribute to the development of standard legal documentation within the Division's areas of activity, notably outside of the EU specific documentation
• Work with other team members, including more junior colleagues and paralegals, providing coaching to the extent applicable
• Participate in horizontal activities of relevance to the Division
• Liaise with external consultants and supervise their work
• Conduct legal research on legal matters and developments of significance to the Division's interests
• Proactively keep up to date with legal developments in legislation, regulations and jurisprudence pertaining to the Division's activities
• Develop and maintain relationships within the Bank (including external offices) and represent the EIB externally

• University degree in law (minimum an equivalent to a Bachelor and preferably at Master level), preferably obtained in civil law country (a law degree in Spain would be an advantage).
• Legal qualification, ideally in a civil law jurisdiction, would be an advantage.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in the field of lending and finance, preferably acquired with a law firm of international repute or the in-house legal department of a financial institution.
• Significant experience in the drafting and negotiation of loan and finance documentation in English and Spanish is required.
• Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English and Spanish is required. Good command of French would be an advantage.(***)

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(***) 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.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge the importance of maintaining the security and integrity of the Information of the EIB Group. In case of selection for the position you agree to comply with all measures (policies, controls, document classification and management) implemented by the EIB Group to prevent unauthorized disclosure of any information or any damage to the EIB Group reputation.

Deadline for applications: 15th January 2026