Tax Associate

We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a professional, technically strong and engaging individual to join us as an Associate, in our London based Tax group.

In addition to its highly regarded Tax practice, the firm has extensive Corporate, Financial Institutions, Commercial and Financing practices. It also has strong practices in Intellectual Property, Financial Regulation, Competition, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution and Pensions and Employment.

The firm is organised into groups that undertake a general spread of work, encouraging lawyers to work on an extensive range of matters. Much of the work spans the globe, with transactions involving our overseas offices as well as leading independent law firms in many other jurisdictions.

Associates tend to work for partners in their own group, but you may also work for partners in other groups to provide a breadth of experience not only in types of work, but also in the different working practices and approach of different partners.

The matters we work on are generally challenging and sophisticated. We do, however, aim to give associates as much responsibility and client contact as they are ready for.

Group structure of our Tax practice

Our Tax practice is led by 5 partners and currently has 3 senior counsel, 14 associates and 2 knowledge lawyers. As an associate with us, you will work with all of the partners in the Tax group and also those from elsewhere, giving you the opportunity to see a wide range of working styles and strategic approaches.

Transactional Work

The Tax group works closely with our corporate and financing groups to provide tax advice on all types of corporate, commercial and financial transactions to ensure the deals are structured in the most appropriate manner so that there are no unexpected tax costs and that any tax liabilities or risks are allocated accordingly. In particular, we advise on:

• Structuring of some of the biggest and most complicated mergers, de-mergers, acquisitions, disposals and corporate reconstructions
• Structuring of debt and equity capital market transactions
• Documentation for the implementation of transactions so that desired tax objectives are met
• Tax aspects of private equity transactions and investment funds from initial investment to exit

Tax Disputes Work

We have a market-leading Tax Disputes practice and have regularly and successfully represented and advised clients on a wide range of tax enquiries and disputes. The object of most of our clients is to reach a resolution with the relevant taxing authority without running the risks, expense and publicity of full-blown litigation. We have considerable experience in assisting clients to resolve their tax disputes by agreement with the tax authorities - and in taking tax disputes to litigation where this is necessary to achieve a successful outcome.

Tax Consultancy

The Tax group has a highly regarded tax consultancy practice. In addition to advising many of the biggest UK-headquartered, publicly listed multinationals, the Tax group's impressive roster of clients includes US and European companies, large private companies, individuals and government bodies.

Although we advise on UK tax, much of the work we do has an international element and we work closely with leading local advisers in overseas jurisdictions. Ultimately, there are no geographical limits to our Tax group's expertise - many of our clients are based outside the UK and many of our UK clients also operate overseas.

The key responsibilities of this role are set out below and there may be others which are not listed. You may be required on occasion to work outside our normal working hours of 9:30am to 5:30pm.

• Advising on the direct and indirect tax aspects of a wide range of corporate, commercial and financial matters including equity and equity capital markets transactions, private mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, fundraisings, structured finance, restructurings and private equity transactions etc.
• Drafting, reviewing and amending transaction documentation to achieve the intended tax treatment or risk allocation
• Advising on contentious tax matters from the enquiry stage to settlement or litigation, alongside our disputes and investigations team, where appropriate
• Advising on tax consultancy matters across the full range of taxes relevant to our clients
• Providing efficient professional support for partners and senior counsel
• Developing professional relationships with clients and stakeholders across the firm
• Supporting the wider team in developing business and raising the profile of the firm and the Tax practice, including through contributing to the European Tax Blog and other publications
• Managing/supervising the work of others, including trainees

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International opportunities

The vast majority of the work undertaken in the Tax group is international.

Many of our clients are based overseas and the nature of our domestic client base is such that most of them have considerable overseas interests.

Our Best Friends network ensures that we and our clients have access to the very best international legal advice which in turn enables us to see more than our fair share of the most interesting global disputes and investigations.

English law is often at the heart of a matter so we frequently find ourselves playing a key role project managing the international advisers and bringing all the strands of the matter together.

Culture of the Firm

One of the distinguishing features of the firm is that we do not operate an "hours" culture; we have no targets set by reference to time recording or billing. Associates frequently comment on how liberating this can be; it rewards efficiency and enables them to focus on providing the best possible service for the client regardless of how long that might take. It also helps foster a collegiate and non-competitive culture in which you will feel comfortable both asking for advice and offering support to your colleagues.

Our work is notorious for its "peaks and troughs" and that will be your experience with us. However, during the quieter periods, we will expect you to make the most of your downtime - to get away on time in the evenings, take the opportunity to use the gym a bit more or simply allow yourself the luxury of taking more time on the work you have. We simply don't have a culture of "face time".